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EMPAD project 2010-2012
The objective of the EMPAD project is to create a new training program for adult education staff and other professionals working with people with mental illness. The EMPAD training gives an orientation to community-based rehabilitation (CBR) services and especially to the Clubhouse method, which emphasizes the recovery orientation, learning opportunities and labour market integration of people with mental illness.
The EMPAD training program will be piloted during the project and the final training product will be offered to the European audience via the Comenius-Grundtvig Training Database. The project will publish course training materials and offer open web-based materials for distance learning. Adults who have experienced mental illness take part in the project development and implementation as "experts by experience".
The EMPAD project promotes the quality of the community-based rehabilitation services by offering new types of training opportunities to professionals. In the long term the project will facilitate new CBR programs and training possibilities for adults with mental illness in areas where similar possibilities are not yet available. An increased number of CBR programs will open more opportunities for disadvantaged citizens to take part in lifelong learning and to be included in society.