CEFEC Team

- CEFEC Executive Committee

Chairperson:

Pavel Novak, FOKUS, Association for Mental Health Care, Czech Republic
Social worker in background, one of founders of Fokus organisation (the first provider of community services for people with mental health problems, 1990), working on mental health and social care reform in the Czech republic. Director of Fokus Praha, civic association providing community services for people with mental health problems in Prague and Central Bohemia

Chairperson of Fokus – Association for Mental Health Care - Czech umbrella organisation of regional community services providers
Member of the executive committee of SKOK - The Association of Non-Governmental, Non-Profit Organizations Working in the Areas of Social and Social Health Care

Chairperson of the Czech Association of the Inspectors of Quality of Social Services.

Secretary:

Sally Reynolds, Social Firms UK, United Kingdom
Chief Executive of Social Firms UK
With a background in the commercial sector of marketing and public relations and developing employment services for people with mental health problems and learning disabilities within the public sector, Sally now heads up the national organisation that promotes and develops the social firm sector across the UK. Social Firms UK has approximately 350 members, half of which are categorised as either emerging social firms or social firms.

Treasurer:

Rainhold Scharf, Pro Mente, Austria
Society of Mental Health Tyrol ( member of pro mente austria )
Controller, Coordinator of European Projects
Representative of pro mente austria in CEFEC
Member of the Executive Board of the Society of Mental Health Tyrol.

Athena Frangouli, PhD, Founder member and ex-general secretary of PEPSAEE, Hellas
Athena is a speech and language therapist.
She works at the Society of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health, Greece, as a coordinator of the steering committee which main objective is to take part at the policy and strategic issues of the executive committee of the Society, consult with the employees for the improvement of services and to empower the people with psychosocial problems. Time is given for the training of postgraduate students in the field of Psychology, Psychiatry, Speech and Language Pathology and Education. She is a member of Associations of minority groups, homeless and disabled.

Bernard Jacob, AIGS (Association Interregionale de Guidance et de Sante), Belgium
Membre du Conseil de Direction de l'Association Interregionale de Guidance et de Sante (A.I.G.S.) asbl.
Directeur des Centres de Readaptation Fonctionnelle et Professionnelle pour adultes de Vottem et Eben-Emael.
President du Groupe de Valorisation Psycho-Medico-Social de la Province de Liege, dit "Reseau".
Vice-President du Conseil d'Administration de EUROPSYREHABILITATION,
Membre du Conseil d'Administration de l'Association Mondiale pour la Readaptation Psycho-Sociale (AMRP-WAPR) et plus specialement au niveau des relations entre le Conseil d'Administration de l'AMRP et les autres O.N.G. europeennes.

Carla Silva, Associacao de Reabilitacao e Integracao Ajuda, ARIA, Portugal
Carla Silva is an agriculture engineer; specialize in rehabilitation for disables people. She has been gardening trainer on the vocational training programs in ARIA - Associacao de Reabilitacao e Integracao Ajuda, since 1996. She had collaborated in other projects, like the organization of 2000Th CEFEC’s in Portugal, and some rehabilitation for disables people steering groups. Last year (2003) joined the ARIA’s board, as Vice-President.

Christiane Haerlin, BAG, Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Integrationsfirmen e.V.,Germany
I am an occupational therapist and have always been engaged in creating work opportunities for psychiatrically disabled. I am a founding member of CEFEC and have only missed one out of the so far eighteen annual Conferences all over Europe . Till end of 2005 I was head of a vocational rehabilitation centre in Cologne.
Most important was my postgraduate work 66 – 70 at the Maudsley Hospital in London with Dr. Douglas Bennett , one of the founders of CEFEC.
In the seventieth we started to implement special vocational training centres for psychiatric patients and the first social firms and in the eightieth I was a founding member of FAF our umbrella organisation for the German Social Firms. In the ninetieth and up to now I have been concerned within Cologne not only to build up our vocational training centre but also to create a net and link this up with other services in the psychiatric sphere and world of work including social firms.

Christine Krämer, "Verein für Sozialpsychiatrie Zürich Oberland", Switzerland
Since several years, I have been committed to making the idea of social firms popular across Switzerland by means of various projects and to create the basis necessary for developing and promoting Swiss Social Firms.
To mention some of these projects, I had been involved in establishing the awardwinning “Lady’s First” Hotel in Zürich (www.ladysfirst.ch), the “Limmathof” Restaurant (www.arbeitskette.ch/limmathof) as well as the ASSOF [Association of Swiss Social Firms (www.swisssocialfirms.ch)] founded in May 2007 at the University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland.
Moreover, I have been member of the executive committee of the Social-Psychiatric Association of the Zürich region since many years.
Recently, I consult, among others, both institutions and individuals aiming to successfully implement social firms or social firm-associated projects.
www.kraemer-beraung.ch

Eija Rautakorpi, M.Ed., Finnish Central Association for Mental Health, Finland
Eija Rautakorpi is a development consultant. She has been working on employment projects aimed for mentally and physically disabled persons for 10 years from which 7 years in Finnish Central Association for Mental Health. Ms. Rautakorpi has developed vocationally rehabilitative training courses for long term unemployed people who have mental health problems. Currently she is working as a development consultant focusing on vocational and psychoeducational rehabilitation issues and teaching. She is responsible of a model for training peer counsellors to empower persons who have mental health problems in vocational rehabilitation process. She is also responsible of a social firm assessing project funded by the Ministry of Labour.

Gyonyul Osman Hayredin, Regional Psychiatric Dispensary – Ruse, Bulgaria
Gyonyul is a social worker and a certified nurse. She currently manages the Secretariat office of the Regional psychiatry hospital of Rousse, Bulgaria and works as a reanimation nurse at the Intensive care unit – Regional Hospital, Tutrakan, Bulgaria. She represents the Regional Psychiatric Dispensary – Ruse, Bulgaria in the Executive Committee of CEFEC since 2005.

Igor Pavel, SENT-Slovenian Association for Mental Health, Slovenia
Director of Dobrovita Plus, a company providing employment and training for people with disabilities.
- Member of the assembly and Honour Court of the Slovenian Social Chamber.
- Secretary of the Council for NGOs in the field of Mental Health;
- Member of the board of Inspectors at SENT – Slovenian Mental Health Association;
- Member of the executive committee of CEFEC (Confederation of European Social Firms, Employment Initiatives and Social Cooperatives).

Marcellino Lopez, Iniciativa de Empleo Andaluza, IDEA, S.A, Spain
Psychiatrist and Sociologist. He was responsible for the Planning Office in the process of Psychiatric Reform in Andalusia (1984-1990) and director of the Mental Health Programme from the Andalusian Health Service (1991-1997). Now he works as Director of Programmes, Evaluation and Research at FAISEM (Andalusian Foundation for Social Inclusion of People with Mental Health Problems), public Foundation that develops social support programmes for persons with mental health severe disorders, including Social Firms through IDEA, SA. He also is responsible for the collaborating activities with the World Health Organization (FAISEM is WHO Collaborating Center in Mental Health), in Europe and in Latin-American Countries.

Margarita Mouza, MSc., CRC, Cyprus Rehabilitation Counseling Association, Cyprus
Margarita Mouza is the Managing Director of CRCA and a consultant at the Rehabilitation Counseling Center. She is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor with specialization in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Ms. Mouza collaborated in research with the Cyprus Institute Of Neurology and Genetics on psychosocial rehabilitation issues, and as consultant and program evaluator to mental health NGOs for the improvement and development of psychosocial and vocational rehabilitation programs for persons with mental illness. Her research interests are on employment discrimination and inclusion. She teaches psychology and mental health at the Nicosia School for Nurses, and she is a member of the Commission on Supervision for the protection of the Mentally Ill.

Petru Vasile Gafiuc, The Regional Association for Adult Education Suceava (AREAS), Romania
Petru Vasile Gafiuc is a founder and president of AREAS, a NGO which was established in January 2005 in Suceava-Romania. He has a Low degree and master degree in Management for Adult Educations Institutes. Also he practices as a trainer and counselor in low, writing projects, community development and organizational development. From 2002 until present he was coordinator of many projects financed by Phare CBC Programs and from 2005 he is a coordinator for several projects in mental health field in cooperation with Promente OberOstericht from Austria looking to develop in special occupational therapy and professional counseling for people with mental disabilities in Suceava.