Tools and action

The Mental Health and Well-being Unit develops practical tools, standards and capacity-building approaches to help countries translate evidence and policy into action. These resources support improvements in the quality of child and youth mental health services, efforts to end stigma and discrimination, the meaningful integration of lived and living experience into mental health systems, and stronger policy and leadership capacity for systemic change.

Publications

Clinical audit tool to strengthen quality of child and youth mental health services

Strengthening the quality of child and youth mental health care is a priority across the WHO European Region. This tool aims to facilitate the systematic...

Transforming mental health through lived experience: roadmap for integrating lived and living experience practitioners into policy, services and community

Integrating lived/living experience practitioners into health-care and social systems is crucial to realizing recovery-oriented mental health care. Practitioners...

Quality standards for child and youth mental health services: for use in specialized community or outpatient care across the WHO European Region

The quality standards for child and youth mental health services were developed in response to requests from the WHO pan-European Mental Health Coalition...

Mosaic toolkit to end stigma and discrimination in mental health

Stigma and discrimination related to mental health conditions are widespread and harmful. Reducing stigma and discrimination can benefit families, societies...

Documents

Youth engaged for mental health

The framework was developed to answer a strong and consistent request from WHO pan-European Coalition members that young people be actively engaged in...