Welcome to the 21st WCP Virtual Congress Program Scheduling

The WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) was launched in 2008 in response to the gap between the burden of mental health and the resources for the treatment of mental, neurological and substance use disorders, especially in countries with low- and middle-income. This session will present the experiences, achievements and challenges in the implementation of the mhGAP intervention program in Latin American countries and outline some of the necessary steps to continue closing the gap in mental health. For this, a general panorama will be presented initially and later the experiences by countries will be addressed, including training modalities (mhGAP version 1, mhGAP 2.0, virtual, in person, blended, remote) and types of training (pre and postservice), as well as the challenges experienced in this process.