Work Packages
WP1: Project Management and Coordination
WP1 will set up the MentBox Consortium to ensure effective and coordinated delivery of the project. This includes:
- Facilitate Consortium Meetings Internal communication structures.
- Schedule and organize all project meetings.
- Project reporting preparation.
- Budget management.
- Risk Management.
WP2: Identification of Best Practice – The Voice of Experts & Patients
The primary objective of WP2 is to identify best practice interventions to be included in the MHToolbox and to gain, via a qualitative co creation, the best and most effective approaches to deploying mental health interventions.
- To identify successful elements of managing mental health problems via a literature review. / Identify key elements of successful approaches in managing mental health issues through an extensive review of existing literature.
- To identify best practice interventions from prior experiences with managing mental health problems in various community settings
- To establish a representative sample of stakeholders to identify promising mental health interventions targeting depression, suicide, and non-clinical mental distress through a co-creation process.
- To identify the most important elements of best practice intervention using the results of the literature review and the Delphi Survey.
- To inform WP3, WP4 and WP5 of implementation consideration.
- To develop guidelines for the defined best practice interventions that feed into WP5.
WP3: Minority Populations – Roma People
Their focus is on working with the Roma population in Seville, Spain, to better understand how to effectively approach mental health interventions tailored to this community.
- Engage the local Roma community in Seville.
- Identify which mental health interventions are appropriate for the Roma community.
- Tailor these interventions to the needs of the Roma community (via a co-creation process).
- To establish a representative sample of stakeholders to identify appropriate mental health interventions for the Roma
community. - Test the interventions with the Roma community in Seville.
WP4: Communication, Dissemination & Policy Guidance
WP4 is responsible for the project’s communication and dissemination activities.
- Engage with EU member state ministries responsible for mental health.
- Develop policy implementation guidance on how to best implement mental health interventions in various EU member state settings.
- Make the project outputs and deliverables available to the relevant stakeholders, such as advocacy groups, labour organizations, government, and other interested parties, including the European Commission.
WP5: Modular Mental Health MH-Toolbox – Integration & Adaptation
The primary objective of WP5 is to develop and finalise the Modular Mental Health MH-Toolbox for further distribution to EU member states after the project.
- Design the MH-Toolbox to ensure it is user-friendly for EU member states and easily to adapt to the needs of other vulnerable groups.
- Tailor the existing EAAD interventions to be included, following the advice and outcomes of WP2.
- Develop and finalise the MH-Toolbox and Guidelines for further adaptation.
- Provide a structure of ongoing (post-project) support to EU member states that wish to implement the MH-Toolbox.