These were the milestones of MENTAL HEALTH SPAIN in 2025
Mental health in disasters and emergencies, institutional and international relations, as well as the defense of women’s mental health, human rights and suicide prevention, among the milestones that have marked 2025.
2025 has been marked by actions aimed at mental health in disasters and emergencies. The year began with the signing of a collaboration agreement with the Vicente Ferrer Foundation, with the aim of promoting reconstruction projects in the area affected by DANA in the Valencian Community, as well as offering psychosocial support and emotional management to people who have been affected by this catastrophe in different areas of the area. The project includes the creation. learning community with the associations that bring together people affected by the DANA of Valencia, the palm volcano and the Lorca earthquake.
They also focused on this topic World Mental Health Day and the 25N campaign, which addressed the mental health of women in disaster and emergency situations.
They have also reinforced the international relations of MENTAL HEALTH SPAIN, with participation in various European meetings. In March, A delegation from the SPANISH MENTAL HEALTH Confederation, led by its president, Nel González Zapico, was received in The Hague by the Spanish Embassy in the Netherlands. Likewise, they held several meetings with various non-profit institutions specialized in mental health, with the aim of opening paths towards a common agenda, with an impact in Europe.
In April the Confederation participated in the I Jornada Regional das Famílias e Saúde Mental, in the Northern Zone in Portugal and in the International Conference on combating violence against women and girls with disabilities, and was present at a meeting held in the European Parliament, to defend the importance of mental health being a global priority.
In October we attended as speakers at XXIV World Congress of Mental Health, Held in Barcelos (Portugal).
2025 has also been a year to continue consolidating the institutional relations of the Confederation at the highest level. Once again this year, Her Majesty the Queen has presided over the institutional event for World Mental Health Day. In March, furthermore, the Confederation, together with other entities, He met with Their Majesties the Kings, with the aim of monitoring and collecting information on the situation after DANA.
Likewise, SALUD MENTAL ESPAÑA has maintained a close collaborative relationship with the Ministry of Health, which has materialized in activities such as the Day of Suicide Preventive Communicationaimed at journalists.
As it could not be otherwise, the defense of human rights in mental health has been another of the axes on which the Confederation’s activity has pivoted in 2025. As every year, it has published the Report on the state of Human Rights in Mental Health, and has developed the campaign #RightToOurRights, on this occasion focused on demanding the non-approval of the Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention. In addition, it has collaborated with CERMI in the preparation of the document ‘Mental health as a matter of Human Rights’.
The suicide preventionwith the September 10 campaignhey various formations, the defense of peace international, as well as the mental health of women and The defense of the rights of women with mental health problems has also had a high profile in 2025. In addition to the 8M campaign, Focused on denouncing ageism and its harmful effects on women’s mental health, SALUD MENTAL ESPAÑA has presented the ‘GEA study on the management of empowerment and accessibility in the rights of women and girls with mental health problems in Spain’, a pioneering investigation, which warns about how women, adolescents and girls with mental health problems and/or psychosocial disabilities in Spain suffer structural inequalities and violations of social rights aggravated by their gender in practically all areas of their daily lives.
Of course, internal activity has been maintained with the scheduled assemblies of the Board of Directors and the Federation Management and Coordination Commissionas well as the meetings of its different working groups, such as the Group to promote the figure of Mutual Support Agent, First Person Mental Health Committee, the State Network of Women MENTAL HEALTH SPAINand the Commission for the Defense of Human Rightsfrom which the Annual Report on the state of Human Rights in mental health emanates.
Finally, the actions of support and advice to entities of the associative movement.
