Crisis

Support with mental health difficulties

Materials: Videos and animations

This video gives you some good tips and advice on what to do, when you are concerned with someone's mental health, or if you feel your own resources are not sufficient.

Bashe Ali

Advisor, RE-MAP - Resilience, Mental Health and Radicalisation Prevention, MIELI Crisis Centre Helsinki

+358 40 513 4774

firstname.lastname@mieli.fi

Suvi Purhonen

Project Manager, RE-MAP - Resilience, Mental Health and Radicalisation Prevention, MIELI Crisis Centre Helsinki

+358 40 121 6780

firstname.lastname@mieli.fi

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