AEIPS

Name

AEIPS

Legal name

AEIPS - Associação para o Estudo e Integração Psicossocial

Website

https://aeips.pt

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AEIPS is a Portuguese non-profit (IPSS) providing community mental health services—Housing First, supported employment, supported education, and leadership programs—to people with experience of mental illness in Lisbon, funded primarily through government and European grants and operated with a peer-led model via its CEAM center.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Mental Health Services

NAICS

Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Facilities (6232), Other Residential Care Facilities (62399), Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities (62412)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050)

akta.pro primary industry

Behavioral Health–Capable Assisted Living (Mental Health/SUD Support) (HLADABAI)

Keywords

• Community mental health services
• Supported housing programs
• Supported employment services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation
• Peer-led empowerment

Headquarters

HQ city

Lisbon

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Grants and PRR Funding: AEIPS receives funding from Portuguese government programs including PRR (Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência) and INR, I.P. for implementing social integration programs.
2. European Funding: Funding from EEA Grants administered by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and in partnership with Bissaya Barreto Foundation for leadership and empowerment projects.
3. Donations: The organization accepts donations from individuals and organizations to support its mission.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

AEIPS is a non-profit social solidarity institution that provides community-based psychosocial support services for people with mental health experience in Lisbon, Portugal. Its core offerings are organized around four interconnected pillars: supported housing (Habitação / Casas Primeiro Housing First), supported employment (Emprego Apoiado), supported education (Educação Apoiada), and leadership/self-advocacy (Liderança), complemented by the peer-led Centro de Empowerment e Ajuda-Mútua (CEAM) and the Residência do Restelo continuing care unit.

Product overview

AEIPS (Associação para o Estudo e Integração Psicossocial) is a Private Social Solidarity Institution (IPSS) offering a coordinated portfolio of community mental health services in Portugal. The organization operates four core interconnected service areas: Habitação (Housing Support), Emprego (Supported Employment), Educação Apoiada (Supported Education), and Liderança (Leadership/Self-Advocacy). The ecosystem includes the Centro de Empowerment e Ajuda-Mútua (CEAM) for peer-driven empowerment activities, the Projeto Casas Primeiro Portugal housing-first initiative, and the Residência do Restelo continuing care facility. AEIPS also produces publications including the Interpares newspaper and Boletim Comunidade to support knowledge sharing and advocacy. The organization participates in European research projects including H2020 HOME_EU and receives funding through PRR (Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência), EEA Grants, and active citizenship programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Programa de Emprego Apoiado: Supported Employment Program for professional insertion of people with disadvantages in the open competitive labor market through individualized support plans.
• Programa de Educação Apoiada
• Casas Primeiro Portugal
• Centro de Empowerment e Ajuda-Mútua (CEAM)

Products and services

• Habitação (Supported Housing) Community-based supported housing service for people with mental illness experience, providing stable housing solutions integrated within the community. Beneficiaries access the service through referrals from healthcare providers and direct inquiries.
• Emprego Apoiado (Supported Employment) Supported employment program for professional insertion of people with mental illness experience in the open competitive labor market through individualized support plans.
• Educação Apoiada (Supported Education) Supported education program for people with mental illness experience who wish to return to or continue studying, providing specific support for school project selection, applications, and academic success in collaboration with educational contexts.
• Liderança (Leadership Development) Leadership development program promoting self-representation of people with mental illness experience through initiatives that increase participation, influence, and leadership at individual, organizational, community, and social levels.
• Centro de Empowerment e Ajuda-Mútua (CEAM) Peer-led center coordinated and run exclusively by people with mental illness experience, promoting self-representation and empowerment through Mutual Aid Groups, Thematic Debates, Anti-Discrimination Campaigns, and the Ajuda Interpares newspaper.
• Projeto Casas Primeiro Portugal Housing First project initiated in 2009 for long-term homeless people with mental illness, developed in areas of intervention, training and consulting, evaluation and research, and political influence. Recognized as one of the 10 best European good practices in mental health by DG Santé and the European Commission in 2019.
• Residência do Restelo Integrated Continuing Care Unit in Mental Health providing residential care for people with mental illness, inaugurated in 2017.

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Fundação Bissaya BarretocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership consortium with Gulbenkian Foundation for leadership and empowerment project funding.
• ANARP (Associação Nacional de Reabilitação Psicossocial)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational partnership with AEIPS (Lisbon) and ASMAL (Loulé/Faro) for leadership promotion among people with mental illness.
• ASMAL (Associação de Saúde Mental do Algarve)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational partnership with AEIPS (Lisbon) and ANARP (Porto) for leadership promotion among people with mental illness.
• European Commission / DG SantéflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCasas Primeiro project recognized as one of 10 best European good practices; participated in DG Santé marketplace event in ISPRA (2019).

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ASMAL - Associação de Saúde Mental do Algarve: Algarve-based mental health association and AEIPS national partner. Provides similar community-based psychosocial support, peer empowerment, and self-representation services in southern Portugal.
• ANARP - Associação Nacional de Reabilitação Psicossocial: Portuguese non-profit psychosocial rehabilitation association based in Porto and a direct national partner of AEIPS. Delivers comparable community mental health, supported employment, and self-advocacy programs in northern Portugal.
• Crescer na Maior: Portuguese non-profit supporting people with mental illness through housing and community reintegration programs. Operates the 'Housing First Portugal' model and shares AEIPS's target population and housing-led approach.

Others

• FEANTSA - European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless: European umbrella for homelessness service providers and a relevant peer network for AEIPS's Casas Primeiro housing-first work, although FEANTSA itself is an advocacy federation rather than a direct service provider.
• European Federation of Associations of Families of People with Mental Illness (EUFAMI): EU-level umbrella organization for family and user associations in mental health. AEIPS participates in adjacent EU advocacy and project networks; relevant as a peer in the supranational mental health ecosystem.
• Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian: Major Portuguese philanthropic foundation that both funds AEIPS (EEA Grants administration, conference host) and operates its own health and social inclusion programs. Relevant as a key funder and ecosystem anchor rather than a direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa: Public psychiatric hospital serving the Lisbon region. Relevant as the institutional counterpart whose chronic inpatient population AEIPS's deinstitutionalization programs (Residência do Restelo, Casas Primeiro) are explicitly designed to serve.
• Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa: Large Portuguese social solidarity institution with a much broader social services portfolio including health, elder care, and homelessness programs. Operates overlapping but much larger-scale services in Lisbon and is a potential comparator for AEIPS's continuing care and housing services.
• Cáritas Portuguesa: National confederation of Catholic social service organizations providing housing, social reintegration, and poverty alleviation across Portugal. Comparable as a large incumbent social services provider with overlapping homelessness and reintegration missions.
• Pathways to Housing: US-origin Housing First organization that pioneered the model AEIPS adapted via Casas Primeiro. Relevant as the international reference implementation of the same methodology, useful for benchmarking program design and outcomes.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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