European Society for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Acronym: ESCAP

General Information

Identification Code: 669554744403-75

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Entity Form: European Society

Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

Registration Date: 10/15/2021

Last Update: 2/1/2024

EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: The European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) is a not-for-profit association whose purpose is to promote the mental health and wellbeing of children, adolescents and their families. As well as to improve the quality of their lives and to ensure children’s right for support to healthy mental development and for appropriate preventive and therapeutic mental health services and interventions.

Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Interests:

Climate action
Communication
Education and training
Migration and asylum
Public health
Research and innovation
Youth

Levels of Interest:

european

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: The EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child and the European Child Guarantee • Especially thematic area 3 Combating violence against children and ensuring child protection • All Horizon2020 funding options related to Rights of the child EU policies on non-communicable disease, especially mental health, for example: • EU-Compass for Action on Mental Health and Well-being • The EU Health Policy Platform • The Steering Group on Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Management of Non-Communicable Diseases • The independent network Mental Health Europe The “EU’s response to COVID-19” programme: EU4Health 2021-2027 – a vision for a healthier European Union

Communication Activities: ESCAP hosts a biannual event with over 1000 attendees of child and adolescent psychiatrists and allied professionals, we use these events to help publicise our activities and those of the projects mentioned above. ESCAP runs educational events and research academies to support the training of early career psychiatrists and push forward policy issues that relate to their future work. ESCAP's official journal is the European Child + Adolescent Psychiatry (ECAP) with special ESCAP Communications articles on European issues. We have several articles published in the journal including ESCAP Policy Position Statements, as well as the CovCAP survey (phase 1 and 2) looking at the impact of COVID-19 on European Child and adolescent psychiatric services. We use our website and social media platforms as a way to disseminate information and communicate important academic, clinical and policy issues to the European community who specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Children's rights

Head Office

Address: c/o Vlaamse Vereniging voor Kinder- en JeugdpsychiatrieAvenue de la Couronne 20

Post Code: 1050

City: Brussels

Country: BELGIUM

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EU Office

Address: c/o Vlaamse Vereniging voor Kinder- en JeugdpsychiatrieAvenue de la Couronne 20

Post Code: 1050

City: Brussels

Country: BELGIUM

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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: The main income of ESCAP is through congresses and member fees and now the EU grant.

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0

Members25 Percent: 1

Members50 Percent: 0

Members75 Percent: 0

Members: 1

Members F T E: 0.25

Info Members: ESCAP is run by its governing board of 11 European psychiatrists and the support of a communications editor and volunteers who help organise events and meetings.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure

Is Member Of: Our members consists of 36 national societies in child and adolescent psychiatry all throughout Europe. Our member page shows all our members: https://www.escap.eu/members We have partnerships with UEMS-CAP division (http://www.uemscap.eu/), IACAPAP (https://iacapap.org/), EFPT (http://efpt.eu/).