This important special issue highlights research and learning from the transatlantic

"Citizenship, Recovery, Inclusive Society Partnership" (CRISP). CRISP has worked for 4 years

to bring together academics, policy-makers and peers from across the US and Europe in

exchanges, conferences and research projects. Partners include Yale University, New York

University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Ulm University, The Mental Health Foundation

and Finland Association for Mental Health. Dozens of beneficiaries spent a month or more in

another country learning from and with them.

Together we explored the social exclusion faced by people with mental health conditions,

and the initiatives and policies that can promote greater equality and inclusion. We framed

this in the context of stigma, recovery and citizenship. These are important areas of mental

health research in their own right but our approach was to understand how these concepts

related to one another and how they can inform policy solutions.