The membership year runs from 1 April to 31 March, with late registration payable until 1 June.

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Any registered organisation or individual actively involved in the Mental Health field can become a member of SAFMH.

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All Members:

• Access to exclusive mental health information through the SAFMH website – www.safmh.org.za
• Receipt of the twice-yearly newsletter – INTERACT!
• Discount on the use of SAFMH conference facilities.
• Discount when purchasing SAFMH publications, information brochures and posters.
• Access to training by SAFMH at discounted rates.
• Access to the SAFMH information centre.
• Being part of a united national voice, advocating and lobbying on mental health issues.
• Access to the Biennial Conference at discounted rates.

Organisational Members:

• Organisational members have, as an additional benefit, the opportunity to join a number of the group benefit schemes such as pension, medical aid, etc. Rates decrease as membership grows.
• Casual Day participation enables your organisation to gain higher returns due to a large number of participating SAFMH member organisations.
  

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Individual Membership: R285.04 per year (incl.)

Organisational Membership: R389.31 per year (incl.)

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The SAFMH Biennial Conference was held on October 2010

THEME: “We can make a difference”- From non recognition to entrepreneurship

Background:

The SA Federation for Mental Health has made it a policy that every after second year a Biennial Conference has to be held. The conference aimed at addressing financial independence for persons with mental disability.

The organization is aspiring for social justice for all and financial independence is one of the aspects that social justice addresses. One of the barriers that persons with mental disability face is discrimination as a result of stigma and myths which make it difficult to integrate into the society, employment and schools. Persons with mental disability live on Disability Grant which is sometimes seen as a poverty trap.

This conference addressed issues that are beginning to confront economic empowerment for persons with mental disability in order to take them out of the poverty trap. Justice shall have prevailed if persons with mental disability are given equal opportunities to better themselves financially so as to get out of the poverty trap.

Outcome of the conference:

The conference has succeeded in introspecting ourselves what we mean by Social integration. How far do we take social integration, does social integration mean to live together and take care of persons with mental disability not viewing them as our equals with diverse abilities? What came out from the presentations was a task team to look into the Transformation of Protective Workshops. Looking at empowering and facilitating entrepreneurship of persons with mental disabilities there are organization in the movement who have projects that aiming at empowering persons with mental disabilities to raise to that level. This entails working in partnership with other organization in empowering persons to the level of entrepreneurship. This will give them direction to financial independence and lift them out of the poverty trap.

We would like to thank everyone who joined us for the conference, and hope that we will see you at our future conferences! For more information please contact the office on 011 781 1852 or e-mail: safmh@sn.apc.org

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