News & updates
The Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Department of the General Hospital "Georgios Papanikolaou" becomes CAMHI's partner
On Wednesday, March 27, 2024, an official meeting of cooperation between the Community Mental Health Centre of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Department at the General Hospital "G. Papanikolaou" and the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Initiative (CAMHI).On the premises of the...
Child Mind Institute and SNF celebrate center to address global crisis in youth mental health at expert dialogue
As millions of young people across the world grapple with mental health challenges, the Child Mind Institute and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) have come together to inagurate the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind...
YES Annual Report for 2022 - 2023
Listening to children's views on issues that concern them is a necessary but demanding process. For this reason, the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Initiative includes a specific programmatic component based on international practices and standards to engage young people. This is the...
CAMHI's pilot training in mental health has started
In line with World Mental Health Day 2023 theme, "Mental health is a universal human right," the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative (CAMHI) affirms the rights of children and adolescents to effective, evidence-based mental health care with the launch of pilot training programs...
Stress and ...Action! 4 short films about stress from YES teenagers
With guidance from filmmaker Anastasis Mavroyiannis as part of a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative’s (CAMHI) Youth Engagement Scheme (YES) workshop, teenagers worked together to create four short films about stress, altogether totalling seven minutes.The idea of creating short films...
End of school year, time to take stock of YES
The two-day Youth Gathering on June 17 and 18, 2023, marked the conclusion of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative’s (CAMHI) Youth Engagement Scheme (ΥΕS) for the 2022-2023 school year. YES aims to create a safe and structured space to listen, in a systematic way, to the voices of...
Report: Science-based psychosocial treatments are needed to help improve the mental health of children and adolescents in Greece
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative releases a Synthesis Report of a landscape analysis conducted with a window into the mental health of children and youth in GreeceThe Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative (CAMHI), a partnership between the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)...
The CAMHI Initiative, at SNF NOSTOS 2023
With a discussion entitled "Listening to stakeholders to create sustainable change for children and adolescents: The CAMHI experience in Greece” we are proudly participating this year in the annual open event of the summer of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), SNF Nostos 2023 dedicated...
Participation of the Initiative in the "7th Conference of Education and Research of the Medical School of Democritus University of Thrace"
The 7th Conference of Education and Research of the Medical School of Democritus University of Thrace was successfully held from March 31 to April 2, 2023, in Alexandroupolis. The scientific program focused on Liaison Medicine, new technologies and the connection with the Community. It was a...
Participation of the Initiative in the "5th Panhellenic Conference of Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches in Children and Adolescents"
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative was invited to present at the "5th Panhellenic Conference on Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches for Children and Adolescents" symposium, on Saturday, March 11th, in Athens, at the Sakis Karagiorgas II auditorium of Panteion University. The...