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June 10, 2026
Lyon
National Day

National Day of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Network

A day to collectively reflect on the organization of mental health care, with a clear objective: to promote recovery, participation and inclusion of the people concerned.

🎯 Objective

Promote recovery, participation and inclusion of the people concerned.

🎟️ Free registration but mandatory

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Date

June 10, 2026

Time

10:30 AM – 5:15 PM

Location

South Medical School, Lyon

Free registration but mandatory

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June 1, 2026
Lyon
Screening & discussion

Connecting Stories Beyond Bars

Prison Insider is pleased to invite you to an evening of screening and discussion around "Connecting Stories Beyond Bars – the invisible impact of prison on loved ones".

🎬 The documentary

Mothers, fathers, daughters, wives and sisters tell how prison also imprisons those who support them.

💬 Panel discussion with

  • • Andrea Casamento, ACiFaD (Argentina)
  • • Gael Courvallet, International Observatory of Prisons – French section
  • • Nathália Keller Rorato, Prison Insider
  • • Moderation: Romane Le Scanf, Association

🎟️ Free registration but mandatory

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Date

June 1, 2026

Time

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Location

Cinema Opera — 6 Rue Joseph Serlin, 69001 Lyon

Free registration but mandatory

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20 May 2026
Brussels
Colloque

Ten years of Belgian law on internment: current situation

Since its implementation, the law of 5 May 2014 on internment continues to raise questions. The number of internment measures imposed continues to rise, while the living conditions and care provided to internees are raising concerns among researchers, professionals and human rights defenders.

📄 Two recent reports offer findings and recommendations that are essential to this debate:

  • • Report ‘Mental illness behind bars: the urgent need to break the deadlock’, published jointly by Unia and the Central Prison Supervisory Council (CCSP), which reviews current practices and makes recommendations for improving care in detention
  • • Study by the National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology (NICC/INCC) on data monitoring, factors influencing changes in the number of hospitalisations and gaps in existing documentation

The authors of these reports, accompanied by professionals in the field, will compare their analyses to discuss how the justice of the peace and criminal justice systems treat some of the most vulnerable people living with mental disorders.

💬 About

This event is part of Sin'RJ's commitment to supporting a rigorous dialogue between research, practices and real-life experiences.

Location

UCLouvain Saint-Louis, Brussels

Date

Wednesday, 20 May 2026

Ressources

Report Unia & CCSP Study NICC/INCC

🎟️ Registration free, mandatory

Limited places – Register now

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April 8, 2026
Lyon
Scientific roundtable

Youth for One Health

Mental health, ecosystems and community resilience

This meeting brings together multiple disciplinary perspectives to explore the connections between individual psychological trajectories, transformations of living environments, and collective societal responses.

🎤 Speakers

Boris Cyrulnik

Psychiatrist and ethologist

Teaching at the University of Toulon and member of the expert committee of the First 1000 Days Commission. Leading figure in research on psychological resilience, child development, and interactions between environment and individual trajectories.

Nathalie Blanc

CNRS Research Director, geographer

Her work focuses on the relationships between human societies, living environments and ecological transformations, as well as on the conditions of territorial habitability.

Benoît Miribel

President of the Sustainable Health for All Foundation

Works on issues of health system governance, international cooperation and global solidarity.

Rose Charbonnier

PhD candidate in social psychology, former Mental Health Ambassador (ARHM Foundation/Unis Cité)

🎭 Moderation

Élodie Giroux

Professor of philosophy of science and medicine

Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, researcher at the Lyon Philosophical Research Institute. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to health and on conceptual and epistemological issues in medicine, psychiatry and public health.

ℹ️ Practical information

  • Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the meeting
  • ARHM Foundation – Conference Room 1 – Entrance A3, 290 route de Vienne, 69008 Lyon
  • Free event, open to all upon registration subject to availability
  • Refreshments will be served to extend the discussions

Date

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Time

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Location

ARHM Foundation, Lyon

Free registration but mandatory

Limited seats

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6 February 2026
Lyon
Training course

The keys to writing a funding application

On 6 February 2026, Hélène Liégeois from the Sin'RJ network took part in the training course ‘The keys to writing a funding application’, organised by the new Flaura Federation for research in psychiatry and mental health in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

This participation is part of a skills development initiative related to the cross-cutting issues of structuring, sustaining and financing the initiatives led by Sin'RJ.

Location

Lyon

Date

6 February 2026

Organiser

Fédération Flaura

31 January 2026
Application
Congress

Congress on psychiatry in prisons

On 31 January 2026, Hélène Liégeois from the Sin’RJ network submitted her application to participate in the 29th National Conference on Psychiatry in Prisons, scheduled to take place in Paris in June 2026.

This application is part of an ongoing commitment to open up a space for reflection and dialogue on the transdisciplinary synergies between care, justice and psychosocial support, based on her dual role as a relative of a person in prison and founder of the Sin'RJ network.

Responses to this application will be communicated in March 2026.

Location

Faculté des Saints-Pères, Paris

Conference dates

25–26 June 2026

Preliminary programme

JN SPMP 2026