The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative
Πρωτοβουλία για την Ψυχική Υγεία Παιδιών και Εφήβων

Conduct a robust landscape analysis to assess mental health care needs; assess barriers to care, understand clinical practice; standards of care; and training needs from mental health and psychosocial care providers and opportunities for training.

Build partnerships between clinicians across the country and internationally.

Create a country-wide network on Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) to enhance national capacity for caring for complex and acute cases, and pave the way for the uptake and scaling of science-based practices.

Deliver a basic and specialized training program supported by science.

• The basic training program provides vital information about mental health and child protection to professionals working with children.
• Specialized trainings focus on evidence-based psychotherapeutic treatments, increase the capacity to deliver effective, scalable, measurable, and science-supported mental health care to children and adolescents in Greece.

Develop and implement a digital platform and clinical technology in tele-mental-health:

• Facilitate free remote trainings
• Disseminate free resources to individuals regardless of where they are
• Share all data collected in the landscape analysis and related research
• Build a nationwide, multidisciplinary network of professionals
• Support community building and engagement for parents, youth, and healthcare professionals
• House anti-stigma campaigns for the Greek community
• Take mental health assessments and care beyond the clinical setting, making them more accessible to remote areas