Erica Foundation
The Erica Foundation is a Swedish non-profit organization with the overall goal to reduce mental health problems in children and young people.
Their vision is that all children and young people get the support they need to live a good life and have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
They provide the following services:
- Clinical activities. Treatment, psychotherapy and psycho-educational interventions for children, young people and their families.
- Support interventions when society fails, such as qualified crisis support for sudden deaths in the family, sexual abuse, domestic violence, suicide/murder and serious events in society.
- Advanced training in psychotherapy, other treatment and related fields, focusing on children and young people, to strengthen these competences in society. We often train social services, doctors and educators.
- Research and method development to strengthen and develop our treatment activities and knowledge of effective methods and other approaches for children and young people with mental health problems.
- Dissemination of knowledge about mental health and ill health in children and young people, for example through participation in the media.
- Influencing work to improve conditions for children and young people, on issues within the framework of the