About us

NAPHA (Norwegian Resource Centre for Community Mental Health) is NTNU Samfunnsforskning's own competence centre, for the municipalities in Norway. The centre's task is to strengthen and influence the development of locally based services relating to mental health and substance abuse, with focus on the adult population.

NAPHA directs its work to employees in 357 municipalities, spread over 17,500 man-years, of which approximately 13,500 work with adults (2023 numbers).

The centre was established in 2008 to improve the knowledge base for these services.

The centre collects, disseminates and facilitates the sharing of knowledge throughout Norway, based on both research, experiential knowledge and knowledge from the users themselves. NAPHA shall be useful for the municipalities and influence the development of the municipal work aimed at adults with mental health problems.

The centre collaborates with relevant professional and competence environments and will assess the need for measures that raise competence in Norwegian municipalities. The centre will emphasize the connections between the mental health field and the substance abuse field. Contact with the municipalities, various networks, user organizations and other professional environments is central to NAPHA's work.

NAPHA establishes and develops professional networks and arenas for knowledge and cooperation between municipalities and other environments with expertise in mental health work. The website napha.no is an important arena for new knowledge. There, employees in the municipalities, users, relatives and employees in NAPHA share experiences.

The centre's employees have experience and expertise from the field of practice, public agencies, research, education, use of services, and from dissemination, media and communication.

The operation of NAPHA is fully financed by the Norwegian Directorate of Health.

Head of department:

Address:
NAPHA
- Nasjonalt kompetansesenter for psykisk helsearbeid
Kjøpmannsgata 32, (2nd floor)
7011 Trondheim, Norway