Agenda

Please note, that this agenda is a draft and changes are possible. 

All times are UTC+3.

Day 1: Tuesday 16th September  

8.30–10.00 Welcome, registration, morning coffee, poster wall, networking

10.00–10.20 Opening words
Senior planning officer Minna Ahola, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare  
10.20–11.20 Current issues from the International IPS Learning Community
Director Sarah Swanson, IPS Employment Center (USA)
Assistant professor Franco Mascayano, Columbia University / NYSPI (USA)
11.20–11.40 Interview of IPS clients
Speakers' names to be confirmed
11.40–12.20 Panel discussion  
Facilitator: chief physician Eila Sailas, HUS Helsinki University Hospital (Finland)
Panelists' names to be confirmed

12.20–14.00 Lunch in our restaurant

14.00–14.30 New insights from the Finnish IPS evaluation study
Researcher Noora Sipilä and research manager Kaija Appelqvist-Schmidlechner, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare 
14.30–14.50 IPS in community drug and alcohol services in England
IPS programme manager Paul Anders, Department of Health and Social Care (UK)
14.50–15.10 Positioning IPS in the multifaceted field of employment and mental health
Emeritus professor Jaap van Weeghel, Tilburg University (Netherlands); medical director Angelo Fioritti, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Bologna (Italy)
15.10–15.30 Title to be confirmed
Chair René Keet and board member Alessandra Martinelli, European Community based Mental Health Service Providers (EUCOMS) Network

15.30–16.00 Coffee break

16.00–16.20 European IPS Database, point of view from quality assessing and developing the fidelity assessment  
Researcher Lars de Winter, Phrenos Center of Expertise for severe mental illness (Netherlands)
16.20–16.30 Comment 1
Associate professor Claus Brygger Jacobi, University College Absalon, Roskilde Center for Social Work (Denmark)
16.30–16.40 Comment 2
Development manager Helka Raivio and senior planning officer Minna Ahola, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare    
16.40–17.00 Closing words of the day and time to interact at the poster wall
Senior planning officer Minna Ahola, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare  

19.30 Dinner in the City
 

Day 2: Wednesday 17th September  

9.00–9.30 Morning coffee, poster wall, networking

9.30–10.00 Introduction to workshops
Senior planning officer Minna Ahola, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
10.00–11.00 Workshops (choose one workshop)

  1. Supported education 
    Facilitators: Psychologist Dorothea Jäckel and IPS coach Julia Kropeit, Vivantes Klinikum am Urban Berlin (Germany)
  2. Danish new evaluation tool
    Facilitator: IPS ambassador Johannes Patursson, Region Själland (Denmark)
  3. IPS in social and employment services  
    Facilitator: Senior associate professor Inge Storgaard Bonfils, Department of Social Work, University College Copenhagen (Denmark) 
  4. Fidelity scale needs and European IPS database
    Facilitator: Researcher Lars de Winter, Phrenos Center of Expertise for severe mental illness (Netherlands)
  5. Boosting job development
    Facilitator: Professor Ulrika Bejerholm, Lund University (Sweden)
  6. Importance of supportive structures in establishing IPS  
    Facilitator: Researcher Jaakko Harkko, University of Helsinki (Finland)
  7. Best practices of integration in psychiatric care
    Facilitator: Service area manager Mikko Ketola, Wellbeing Services County of South Ostrobothnia (Finland)
  8. IPS teamwork and team leader's role
    Facilitator: IPS supervisor Sara Voxendal, Sahlgrenska University Hospital (Sweden)
  9. Work with clients
    Facilitator: IPS team leader Päivikki Puutio-Ojala, Wellbeing Services County of Central Ostrobothnia (to be confirmed) (Finland)
  10. Fidelity reviews: strengths and challenges
    Facilitator: Project manager Helka Raivio, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare  
  11. Recovery orientation
    Facilitators: Project manager Saara Rapeli and researcher Noora Sipilä, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare  

11.00–11.45 Coffee break 

11.45–12.15 Mobilizing and managing peer support workers
IPS trainer & consultant Penny Liles, UNC-Chapel Hill (USA)

12.15–12.30 Closing words and passing the baton to the next country  
Speakers' names to be confirmed

12.30–14.00 Lunch in our restaurant

14.00 Event ends