Warsaw Against Depression
Alliance Against Depression, European Commission Representation in Poland and the World Health Organisation Office in Poland have the pleasure to invite you a conference on mental health, building local alliances against depression and mental recovery in local communities.
Every year, around 40 million people in Europe suffer from depression. There is a close link between depression and suicidal behaviour. In the European Union alone, around 48,000 people die by suicide every year (compared to around 23,000 deaths in car accidents) and more than half of these suffer from depression.
Depression is a growing mental health challenge for Europe, Poland, Warsaw and smaller local communities. The conference "Warsaw Against Depression" aims to present good practices in support of mental health, including the method of local alliances against depression and the pooling of resources and capacities of mayors managing the districts of Warsaw in counteracting depression
Conference programme
10.00 – 10.20 Bartłomiej Balcerzyk (European Commission); dr Paloma Cuchi (World Health Organisation Office in Poland); dr Piotr Toczyski (Alliance Against Depression); Olga Pilarska-Siennicka (Warsaw’s City Hall)
10.20 - 11.25 Mental health support for residents - good practices in Warsaw districts (Olga Pilarska-Siennicka, Warsaw’s City Hall), local alliances against depression in Germany (Anne Elsner, German Depression Foundation), Global Mental Health Report (Olga Khan, World Health Organisation Office in Poland), Mental health support for refugees - role of local communities in supporting refugees (Sanem Ozen, UNHCR)
11.25 – 11.45 Break
11.45 – 11.55 dr Maciej Oksztulski - Experience of autism and depression, (EUROPE DIRECT Podlaskie)
11.55 – 13.15 Support for individuals and communities in countering depression — panel discussion featuring dr Mark Balicki (Polish Society of Community Psychiatry),
dr Joanna Krzyżanowska-Zbucka (Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Community Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Unit), Angelika Friedrich (Teenage Asylum) and Szymon Majewski (radio and television host)
13.15 - 13.30 Signing of the “Warsaw against depression” declaration by mayors of Warsaw districts