Personal Autonomy Project

Mental health Autonomy Project

Mental Health Autonomy Project

A project to improve autonomy based on experiences

The project Mental Health Autonomy Project, led by AMAFE and with Progetto Ítaca Roma as a collaborating partner, aims to facilitate access to and maintenance of independent living, as well as strengthening employability . Finding a job and living independently are fundamental factors in a person's recovery process and, today, they are far from being covered.

The same objective from different visions

First person experiences

Each person is unique and each diagnosis and experience different. Therefore, it is important to have the voices of those who live firsthand what it means to have a mental health problem. The promotion of independent living and autonomy involves, without a doubt, giving a voice to the people involved in order to walk more strongly towards full citizenship.


Participation of professionals

The proposal of new approaches based on collaboration to act and prevent the development of mental health problems will improve professional practice and the effectiveness and efficiency of mental health services. Furthermore, methodological exchange, early interventions and the promotion of autonomy to avoid the chronification and stagnation of clinical and social problems are an important part of the MAP project.

The importance of families

The appearance of a mental health problem not only affects the person, but also the family and environment. In Spain and Italy, more than 80% of care and support tasks are carried out by informal caregivers, but despite this, the support and information needs for families are barely taken into account.

A European program based on the collaboration between AMAFE and Progetto ITACA Roma

The MAP program, from its acronym in English, Mental health Autonomy Project, It is a joint work that AMAFE will carry out with the Italian organization Itaca Project Rome, an entity that offers free services to people with mental health problems and their families. Ithaca Project Rome is the lodging agency of the Club Itaca Roma Center dedicated to the recovery and rehabilitation of young adults with serious mental illnesses through support in social autonomy and inclusion in the labor market with a regular salary.


Since its founding Progetto Ítaca Roma, through the Clubhouse model, focused on autonomy and self-determination, has supported people with mental health problems to redefine both their work profile and strengthen their employability and autonomy.

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The writing of a good practices manual as a final result

Mental health Autonomy Project aims to develop a manual of good practices through the transnational exchange of experiences between people with lived experiences in mental health, their families and their professionals..


This manual of good practices will promote the right of people with mental health problems to live autonomously and independently. without this condition implying discrimination or exclusion to achieve it, taking control of their lives, ceasing to be passive subjects in society.


Thanks to this manual of good practices we will take the experiences we have had to the greatest number of people and, in doing so, contribute to generating an exchange in the values of mental health care, including actions that encompass both the individual and the collective, putting people and their needs at the center of any action. .


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