講演情報
[SY-31-03]Co-Producing Community Mental Health with SAGA-ACT, People with Lived Experience, and Their Families
*Kenichiro taniguchi1 (1. Saga Ebisu Mental Clinic (Japan))
キーワード：
Community mental health、Co-production、People with Lived Experience、Assertive Community Treatment、Recovery College
Since April 2015, SAGA-ACT has provided Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in Saga City, a regional city in northern Kyushu, Japan. The team includes psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, psychiatric social workers, and administrative staff, serving a catchment area of about 400,000 people. Saga Prefecture has 490 psychiatric beds per 100,000 people, nearly twice the national average, reflecting a delay in deinstitutionalization and a persistence of stigma.
To address these challenges, SAGA-ACT engages in co-produced community activities with people with lived experience and their families, aiming to build mutual respect, enhance mental health literacy, and reduce stigma.
SAGA Ginnan no Kai co-produces psychoeducation and family dialogue programs with public officials and professionals.
Rashisa SAGA runs a Recovery College planned and delivered by service users and staff.
TOMY’S ACTION CLUB organizes mental health seminars and film events in collaboration with national peers online.
All of these activities provide opportunities for the general public to consider mental health issues as their own concern by jointly creating mental health awareness activities, which tend to be closed, through relationships that transcend positions. Although the current state of community mental health in Japan differs greatly from that in Europe and the United States, we would like to continue these activities to create a system that does not rely excessively on hospitalization.
To address these challenges, SAGA-ACT engages in co-produced community activities with people with lived experience and their families, aiming to build mutual respect, enhance mental health literacy, and reduce stigma.
SAGA Ginnan no Kai co-produces psychoeducation and family dialogue programs with public officials and professionals.
Rashisa SAGA runs a Recovery College planned and delivered by service users and staff.
TOMY’S ACTION CLUB organizes mental health seminars and film events in collaboration with national peers online.
All of these activities provide opportunities for the general public to consider mental health issues as their own concern by jointly creating mental health awareness activities, which tend to be closed, through relationships that transcend positions. Although the current state of community mental health in Japan differs greatly from that in Europe and the United States, we would like to continue these activities to create a system that does not rely excessively on hospitalization.