ANNOUNCEMENT
CCSM Foundation Board
February 2019
Firmly setting the 2019 agenda, the Board of Trustees of the FCCSM wishes to highlight some considerations regarding the organization, as a reminder of our values and commitment to mental health, as well as regarding the agenda we have prioritized for this year, which begins with many open fronts.
We reaffirm our determined vocation to be an inclusive platform for those professional colleges most directly involved in people's Mental Health: Medicine, Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, and Social Education.
This partnership allows us to address the debates and studies that our society is insistently demanding, currently, for the health and well-being of people in general and professionals in particular.
For 2019, we have open topics that directly or indirectly fall squarely within mental health: childhood and adolescence, youth, migrants, the community mental health model, radicalization processes, among others.
While topics from recent congresses are still being addressed, we are beginning to prepare for the upcoming ones, both in the fields of childhood and adolescence, and for adults.
When discussing professional knowledge and practice, we don't want to miss the opportunity to emphasize the importance of rigorously and effectively considering all the training, orientation, and practice sensitivities present in the mental health field, as demonstrably proven. It is common knowledge that fundamentalist positions are progressively emerging, exclusively claiming knowledge and know-how. In contrast, our way of thinking and acting must be a stimulus for the defense of a rigorous plurality committed to society.
Finally, this year we are reopening the Foundation's initial purpose, and perhaps we should say, restarting the will, to connect with those other groups, professionals, or researchers, close to people's health and well-being, such as architects, designers, lawyers, journalists, various cultural agents, etc., whose work has an undeniable impact on mental health, either from prevention or even rehabilitation.
This leads us to address all of the Foundation's assets, and especially the Friends of the Foundation (we will do this more directly, little by little), to optimize contacts and relationships for the benefit of this goal, which will also have to be for the benefit of the entire mental health sector.
Josep Vilajoana Ada Ruiz
President Vice President