March 26th

08:30 Conference Secretariat Opening

09:30 Auditorium 2

Opening Session

José Henrique Ornelas – President of AEIPS/Coordinator of APPsyCI ISPA
Miguel Xavier – Coordinator of the National Mental Health Policies
Sandra Marcelino – Deputy Director of the Lisbon District Social Security Center
Sofia Athayde – Lisbon city Council member
Sofia Ramalho – President of Order of Portuguese Psychologists 
Carlos Dias Alves – President of FNERDM

Chair: Cristina Louro – President of AEIPS’ General Assembly

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Auditorium 2

Plenary Session: Mental Health Policies
• Diversity and Inclusion in Community Mental Health
José Henrique Ornelas – AEIPS/ISPA-APPsyCI
• Deinstitutionalization, Social Inclusion, and Mental Health Services Reform
José Miguel Caldas de Almeida – Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health

12:00 Auditorium 2

Panel 1: Leadership and Advocacy
• Lidera Tu: A National User-Led Advocacy Organization
Adelaide Cruz – Associação Lidera-Tu
• Advocating for human rights: priorities and challenges from the perspective of ENUSP
Olga Kalina – European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
• Mad Studies in Conversation with Community Mental Health
Bren Lefrançois – School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Commentator: Clara Guterres – President of AEIPS’ Fiscal Council

Auditorium 3

Institute 1: Housing First: Ending Homelessness and Changing Lives
Sam Tsemberis – Pathways Housing First Institute

Chair: Teresa Duarte – AEIPS

13:30 Lunch

14:45 Auditorium 2

Panel 2: Competitive Employment
• Research update on Individual Placement and Support: Helping people with mental health conditions gain competitive employment
Gary Bond – Indiana University, Indianapolis
• Making Employment Happen: A Conversation on Trends, Challenges and Solutions in the Employment Space
Jean-Michel Giraud – Friendship Place, Washington
• Competitive Employment: Fostering Diversity and Social Inclusion
Rita Silva – AEIPS
• The potential of supported employment contracts in open labor market
Mário Pereira – Federação Portuguesa da Formação Profissional e Emprego de Pessoas com Deficiência e Incapacidade

Commentator: Dalila Almeida – DPA Consulting

 Auditorium 3

Institute 2: Conversation about International Movement and Human Rights Advocacy
Tina Minkowitz – Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

Chair: Adelaide Cruz – Associação Lidera Tu

(Meeting for Users and Survivors of Psychiatry)

16:15 Coffee break
16:30 Auditorium 2

Panel 3: Independent Living and Housing First
• Housing Support Team: Preventing Institutionalization and Promoting Independent Living
Vera Coelho – AEIPS
• Housing First: Choice, Mastery e Recovery
Sam Tsemberis – Pathways Housing First Institute
• Healing relationships – community integration, mental well-being and recovery – experiences from the implementation of Housing First in Poland
Piotr Olech – TPBA, Poland

Commentator: Francesca Esposito – University of Bologna

Auditório 3

Institute 3: Job First: Energizing the Job Placement Process
Jean Michel Giraud – Friendship Place, Washington DC

Chair: Rafaella Lopes – AEIPS