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Since its launch in 2019, the Erie Foundation has developed an ambitious and systemic approach, designed in collaboration with a network of renowned international experts.
The foundation helps and supports organizations which want to improve the mental health system so that everyone, including the most fragile in society, can have access to help and care.
Tackling four challenges
We select partners which bring forward solutions that address the four most pressing issues identified in the field of mental health today:
Facilitating access to care as early as possible
Receiving care at the onset of the first symptoms can improve prognoses and lead to a fourfold increase in a person’s chances for rehabilitation and social and professional reintegration.
Change in therapeutic practices
Suggesting new therapeutic approaches and facilitating care for everyone are real needs for patients and those close to them.
Improving reintegration into mainstream society for people with mental illness
Ensuring people who live with mental illness play a central role when it comes to their own recovery and so they can find their place in society and live a fulfilling life.
Changing the image of mental illness
Stigmatisation and prejudices are real barriers to people accessing and receiving care.
Support,
unify,
leverage.
The work of the Erie Foundation is rooted in the principles of strategic philanthropy. In collaboration with players in the field, the foundation offers various types of support.
Financial support, generally spread over several years, allowing projects to stabilize and thus develop and maximise their impact.
Non-financial support, aimed at making sure our partners have access to the foundation’s skills and network and can increase their impact through strategic support, synergies with others, sharing information…
The foundation reaches out directly to mental healthcare professionals who share a similar vision and in consultation with experts, selects projects based on:
Since 2019, the foundation has helped and supported over a hundred projects.
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Portrait Project sponsor
Portrait Project sponsor
Sandrine Broutin
Executive director of Oeuvre Falret
« It’s about having intellectual rigour and refusing to make plans without involving the people concerned. »View the portrait
Portrait Project sponsor
Portrait Project sponsor
Caroline Matte
Co-founder and Director of La Maison Perchée.
« Ensuring that the people concerned are included at every stage of the project. »View the portrait
Portrait Expert
Portrait Expert
Charles-Edouard Notredame
Child and adolescent psychiatrist
« Access to care is one of the cornerstones of mental health. »View the portrait
Portrait Beneficiary
Portrait Beneficiary
Vincent Gross
Employee at the ‘Manège réenchanté au Jardin Pêcheur’ and member of the Clubhouse in Bordeaux
« [...] We urgently need to create more spaces which aim to foster social reintegration and help people come out of isolation [...] and prepare each individual to enter employment, in accordance with their wishes and capabilities. »View the portrait
Portrait Project sponsor
Portrait Project sponsor
Pierre Maly
Manager and a volunteer of the Jardin Pêcheur, a restaurant in Bordeaux providing employment to disabled people
« [...] Dealing with every employee on a case-by-case basis and having an honest discussion about what’s possible and what are their limits. »View the portrait
Portrait Expert
Portrait Expert
Denis Legay
Psychiatrist
« Despite the undeniable recent progress, mental health remains a hard concept to get to grips with and there is a great need [...] for information, bottom-up approaches and monitoring to counteract negative images. »View the portrait
Portrait Expert
Portrait Expert
Dr. Jean-Victor Blanc
He is a psychiatrist and addictologist at Saint-Antoine Hospital (AP-HP, Paris), a lecturer at Sorbonne University and founder of ‘Culture Pop et Psy’.
« [...] the priority ought to be finally changing our attitudes towards mental health. [...] By moving away from these stereotypes, we can revisit certain clichés, which will let us better look after ourselves and also promote inclusion. »View the portrait