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Mental Health Services Working on Trauma
Trauma is a complex issue that has received increased attention over the past years. However, many mental health professionals still face challenges to study and work on it and mental health service providers do not always work in a “trauma-informed” way. This document was written by the EPR Secretariat with the contribution of the EPR […]
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EPR Study 2021: Service provision for people with disabilities during COVID-19
The idea of the study was to understand what ensured services for people with disabilities and mental health conditions worked well during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. EPR wanted to find changes that were made to the services for labour market and social inclusion and new ways that they were provided which were made […]
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EPR Catalogue of Activities and Services 2022
You can consult our Catalogue of Activities and Services here. It outlines our working groups, taskforces, conferences, seminars and training workshops, as well as planned research, papers and support to members.
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Annual Report 2020
Our Annual Report 2020 is now available online! In this publication we look back at the year 2020, our Conferences, Workshops, Trainings that we adapted and delivered fully online. The growing EPR community strengthened its boundaries and succeded working together in a year full of challenges due to covid-19. Read our key publications, check out our […]
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Calendar of EPR events 2021
You can consult our calendar of events here, which is updated as soon as dates are confirmed.
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From Care To Employment: A Short Study On Programmes Supporting Return-To-Work
In 2020, EPR issued a short study focusing on disabilities programmes, services, projects that support clients from illness or the acquisition of a disability into labour market inclusion. To do so, EPR gathered information from its members. Six organisations submitted practices on the subject of the study that were analysed aiming to compare different approaches, […]
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Quality Services for Social Inclusion: Mapping Quality Regulations, Requirements and Trends in Vocational Rehabilitation for Persons with Disabilities
This study mapping quality regulations, requirements and trends in vocational rehabilitation for persons with disabilities in Europe has two main objectives: To better understand the current obligatory and voluntary regulations, requirements and trends in vocational rehabilitation for people with disabilities across different European countries; To inform the relevant stakeholders and policy-makers on the existing gaps […]
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Covid-19 and Mental Health: Delivering Mental Health Services Under the Pandemic
This briefing paper gathers information about mental health service provision during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It disseminates the experiences and challenges of EPR members and puts together conclusions and recommendations to European policymakers on the subject. The lessons learnt by EPR members in providing mental health services during times of crisis also contribute to […]
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Employment of People with Disabilities: Joint Message
EPR co-authored a statement to the EU institutions to advocate the employment of persons with disabilities. The statement was issued by the European Association of Service providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD), the European Disability Forum (EDF), the European Network of Social Integration Enterprises (ENSIE), the European Union for Supported Employment (EUSE), Workability International and […]
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Analytical paper digital skills
The objective of this paper is to provide a range of resources, as well as recommendations, for staff working with people with disabilities and stakeholders across Europe to help them improve digital skills, use of digital tools to improve efficacy of services, with the final aim to contribute to improving the quality of life of […]
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EQUASS
The European Quality in Social Services (EQUASS) is an initiative of the European Platform for Rehabilitation (EPR). EQUASS enhances the social sector by engaging social service providers in continuous improvement, learning and development, in order to guarantee service users quality of services throughout Europe.
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This website received support from the EPR framework partnership agreement with the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion for 2018-2022 from the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI). For further information please consult: http://ec.europa.eu/social/easi