Emmanuelle Remond

After a career as a publisher and journalist for youth and education, Emmanuelle Rémond joined as a family caregiver Unafam, the French national union of families and friends of people with mental illness, a recognized public-interest organization with 99 delegations throughout France. She currently has two mandates. As a departmental delegate for Unafam in Paris, she leads a network of sixty volunteers involved in three types of mission: welcoming and training family caregivers, representing psychiatric users in health and medical-social establishments, and advocating for an inclusive community through housing, employment and cultural activities.  Emmanuelle Rémond is also a director of Eufami, the European Federation of Associations of Families of People with mental illness, with a particular focus on the Prospect psycho-education programme, implemented in 13 countries including France. She is one of the trained facilitators of the programme. She is married with three grown up sons.