Emmanuelle Jouet

Dr Emmanuelle Jouet, PhD in Educational Science, is a researcher at the Maison Blanche Research Laboratory, where she has been working on destigmatising mental health, mental health promotion, developing new training methods involving people living with mental health illnesses as both trainers and trainees, and evaluating continuous learning training programmes for mental health professionals. Her recent research work has taken place within a French national mental health programme, *Un chez soi d’abord*, and two EU supported projects: Promoting Mental Health minimising mental illness and Integrating Social Inclusion through Education, (PROMISE, DG SANCO, n° 2008-216) and Empowerment of Mental Illness Service Users Through Lifelong Learning Integration and Action (EMILIA, CIT-3-2005-513435). She is also currently developing the first French training program for all stakeholders on promoting recovery for mental health service users in France. In the first six months of the programme, more than fifty professionals, including peer workers, nurses, psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists have taken part, using innovative training approaches based on participative ongoing implementation evaluation techniques. She is working on two researches on the field of addiction: the first one is about the drug users pathways during and after a siw weeks educational program in a addiction center; and the second one is about the notion of “participation” in a addiction center, a multiple perspective.