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Volunteer Emotional Support Helplines (VESH) is a planned combined international network of telephone counseling services being formed by the 3 largest international services (Befrienders/Samaritans, IFOTES & Lifeline). In their roles of emotional support service networks, they have agreed to develop a more effective and robust international interface. VESH represents 1200 member centres in 61 countries. Their goal is to ensure maximum access to effective services for people in distress (). They agreed to: *encourage the development of new services in areas of need *promote best practice *increase information sharing between member associations and externally *represent members’ experiences internationally *promote communications skills which contribute to emotional health. Together, the VESH partners have around 1,200 member centres in 61 countries. They have outlined a commitment to information sharing and joint activities. Part of this includes annual meetings and quarterly telephone conferences to plan and implement collaborative projects. At the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) Congress in Ireland in 2007, VESH members #were asked to consider leading the re-establishment of an IASP Task Force on Best Practice in Helplines. #agreed to provide one person to be on the Scientific Committee planning the content of the 2009 IASP International Congress. #agreed to produce two draft booklets along the lines of ‘Setting up a New Emotional Support Service’, and ‘Best Practice Guidelines’ (following a request from WHO) ==History== In 2002 IFOTES, LifeLine International and Befrienders International (and later adopted by Befrienders Worldwide) signed a Memorandum of Understanding - with a view to maximising joint impact in terms of emotional support services. Since then a number of joint initiatives have been undertaken including joint platforms at international conferences of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and joint involvement in planning for the suicide themed World Mental Health Day 2006, a European Single Number project (116 123) and European Green Paper on Mental Health. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Volunteer Emotional Support Helplines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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