Department of Education, Psychiatry in Midtjylland Region, Aarhus Denmark

Main Roles in the EMILIA Project

Work package 6: Analysis, generation and development of financial and learning resources. Analyses the financial costs involved in generating a user employment strategy, and coordinates the development of appropriate training packages geared to assist the development of new employment opportunities for service users in the generation of new service initiatives.

PDCA has also developed the Social Competences and Employers & Colleagues training programmes.

Short description of PDCA

The Department of Education has experience with taking part in several EU-projects. The first project dealt with training og education activities about violence and violence prevention. The second one was a multicenter project with 6 partners  about Occupational Stress with Mental Health Clients in Acute Response (OSCAR) where an important part concerns construction of  training programmes on an EU basis. The third EU-program, where the department was coordinator for the whole program with 7 partners, dealt with Integrated Services Aimed at Dual Diagnosis patients (ISADORA). This program was among other things concerned with design, development and implementation of the training intervention and training program for staff dealing with those dual diagnosis patients.

Besides these EU-programs the Department is responsible for about 100 various training courses and programs for staff and other partners in the mental health field in the County of Aarhus, as well as for institutions nationwide and for instance the Faeroe Islands, besides participating in other regional and international research projects.

During the last five years the Department has been responsible for a project concerning the employment of users as employees in the Psychiatric Services.  To help them manage their jobs we offer them a training program.

We have employed 12 “user teachers” in the Department and they lecture on almost all of our courses, where they contribute with their own specific experiences.

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