

EPAPSY as a direct partner of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) started as from November 2019 implementing a programme of psychosocial community intervention under the title “Community Psychosocial Workforce”, co-funded by the European Union. Community Psychosocial Workers (CPWs) make up a specially trained workforce of refugees and asylum seekers that provides core psychosocial support to other refugees and asylum seekers in their mother tongues. The group which aims at bridging the gap between community and professional/institutional provision of mental healthcare, is supervised by specialized psychologists and social workers.
Who are they addressed to and who do they provide services to?
Community Psychosocial Workers provide services to adult refugees and asylum seekers residing in accommodation provided within the ESTIA programme or accommodation of their own, and who:
What do CPWs do?
Community Psychosocial Workers’ tasks include:
Where do CPWs work?
Community Psychosocial Workers provide:
How to refer beneficiaries in need of psychosocial support provided by CPWs?
Please contact Mr. Charis Vazoukis for more information regarding the referral process via e-mail at refugeementalhealth@epapsy.gr or phone at (+30) 6932415956
Psychosocial Support Helpline
This is a phone helpline for support during the pandemic COVID-19 that started functioning in May 2020 for the provision of direct psychosocial support aimed at facilitating the access to needed services. The helpline works with the valuable contribution of trained Community Psychosocial Workers (CPWs), Monday to Friday, 11.00 to 19.00, in Arabic, French and Farsi.
The provided services include:
Collaboration with the HAN University
As from September 2020 there is a collaboration between Community Psychosocial Workers active in the framework of EPAPSY activities, and students of the HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands enrolled in the programme Health & Community Development – Global Health, aimed at co-developing a joint project for the programme’s beneficiaries.
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