Association Santé Mentale et Communautés

What Association Santé Mentale et Communautés does

Association Santé Mentale et Communautés (SMC) is a French non-profit association (Association loi 1901) founded in 1968 and headquartered at 136 rue Louis Becker, Villeurbanne, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It operates a community-based psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care model delivered outside hospital walls, serving individuals aged 16 and over experiencing psychological distress in the Lyon metropolitan area. Its services span individual and group care with or without accommodation, family therapy, home-based care and support, and assistance to professionals and caregivers, including alternatives and complements to hospitalization. Underlying delivery is organized around twelve+ interconnected care devices — Pôle Crise, HAD (Hospitalisation À Domicile), LAPS, PJA, SAMSAH Paul BALVET, EMLS, Foyer Le Florian, Résidence Sociale Ferdinand Buisson, and Pôle ORLOGES — together with a Pôle Formation providing professional training and a publications and annual colloquium program. No proprietary software platform or AI tooling is disclosed; the technology is fundamentally human clinical expertise coordinated across care pathways.

Name

Association Santé Mentale et Communautés

Legal name

Santé Mentale et Communautés

Website

https://smc.asso.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1968

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

French non-profit association founded in 1968 delivering community-based psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care outside hospitals to individuals aged 16+ in the Lyon metropolitan area through twelve+ interconnected care, housing, training, and prevention devices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Mental Health Services

NAICS

Social Assistance (624), Individual and Family Services (6241), Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists (621112)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Home Health Care Services (8082), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Mental Health & Crisis Support Services (BPAGACAD)

Keywords

• Community mental health
• Psychiatric home care
• Crisis intervention services
• Mental health training
• Residential mental health

Headquarters

HQ city

Villeurbanne

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Pricing tiers

Core offering

Santé Mentale et Communautés (SMC) is a non-profit association that delivers community-based psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care to people aged 16 and over experiencing psychological distress, offering individual and group care, therapies with or without accommodation, family therapy, home-based care, and support for professionals and caregivers. The organization also sells professional training programs to mental health practitioners and publishes collective works on psychotherapy and psychiatry. Services are funded through public health insurance, the French State, and departmental authorities.

Product overview

Santé Mentale et Communautés (SMC) operates as a community-based mental health association providing a comprehensive ecosystem of care devices and services since 1968. The organization offers crisis intervention (Pôle Crise), hospital-at-home (HAD), reception and prevention programs (LAPS, PJA), residential facilities (Foyer Le Florian, Résidence Sociale Ferdinand Buisson, Pôle ORLOGES), home-based support services (SAMSAH Paul BALVET, EMLS), professional training through its Pole Formation, and scholarly publications. The organization focuses on providing psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care outside hospital walls, emphasizing home-based care and crisis intervention as core operational modalities. All services are financed through Assurance Maladie, the State, and the Conseil Départemental.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SMC: The primary abbreviation and brand name under which the association operates its mental health and community care services.

Products and services

• Dispositifs de Soins (Care Devices) Ensemble of mental health care dispositifs providing individual and group care (with or without accommodation), family therapy, home-based care and support, and assistance to professionals and caregivers for people aged 16 and over experiencing psychological distress.
• Pôle Crise (Crisis Center) Specialized crisis intervention service providing immediate psychological support and care for individuals experiencing acute mental health crises.
• HAD - Hospitalisation À Domicile (Hospital-at-Home) Hospital-at-home psychiatric service enabling patients to receive inpatient-level care in their own homes as an alternative to traditional hospitalization.
• LAPS - Ligue pour l'Accueil et la Prévention en Santé Program focused on reception and prevention in mental health, including therapeutic groups addressing perinatal bereavement.
• PJA - Point d'Accueil (Walk-in Reception Point) Walk-in reception point providing initial contact, assessment, and orientation services for individuals seeking mental health support.
• SAMSAH Paul BALVET Social and medico-social service for accompaniment at home, providing specialized support for adults with disabilities.
• EMLS - Équipe Mobile de Liaison Sociale Mobile social liaison team providing outreach and coordination services to connect individuals with appropriate social and healthcare resources.
• Foyer Le Florian Residential care facility providing accommodation and therapeutic support for individuals requiring mental health care.
• Résidence Sociale Ferdinand Buisson Social residence providing supported housing for individuals in mental health recovery.
• Pôle ORLOGES - Hébergement et Logement Social Housing and social housing pole providing accommodation solutions and social support for mental health service users.
• Pôle Formation SMC - Soin de crise et le domicile (Crisis Care and Home Care Training) Professional training program for mental health professionals covering crisis care and home-based psychiatric treatment. 4-day program (2 days + 2 days follow-up). Priced at 900€ per individual; 1,500€ for continuing education group training (6-12 participants); custom pricing for team training.
• Publications et Conférences SMC Collective publications and conference proceedings covering topics in psychotherapy, psychiatry, trauma, psychosis, and clinical practices in mental health care, including an annual symposium.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Assurance MaladiecoreOthersMain public health insurance provider (Sécurité Sociale) that funds the association's mental health services and care programs.
• État (French State)coreOthersFrench government body providing institutional funding and support for mental health services.
• Conseil Départemental du RhônecoreOthersDepartmental council providing funding and support for social and healthcare programs in the Rhône department.
• La Métropole de LyoncoreOthersMetropolitan authority for Lyon area providing funding and institutional support for healthcare services.
• DDETS (Direction Départementale de l'Emploi, du Travail et des Solidarités)supportingOthersState department responsible for employment, labor, and social solidarity in the Rhône department.
• CCAH (Caisse Centrale d'Allocations Familiales)supportingOthersCentral family allowance fund providing funding support for family and social services.
• Caisse d'Épargne RhônesupportingOthersRegional savings bank providing secure online payment processing for donations to the association.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Croix-Rouge Française: Large national nonprofit delivering health and social services including mental health support, home care, and training. Comparable only as a broader incumbent in French nonprofit health delivery.
• Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier: Major public psychiatric hospital in Lyon providing inpatient and ambulatory mental health services. Overlaps with SMC's catchment and target population but as a public hospital incumbent rather than an associative community provider.

Direct peers

• ALGEE - Association de Liaison en Psychiatrie (ALI): French association founded by community-psychiatry pioneers operating care devices, training, and publications in the same community-mental-health tradition as SMC, with overlapping emphasis on home-based and outpatient care.
• Fondation Falret: French nonprofit foundation operating community mental health services, supported housing, and family support across multiple regions. Closely comparable to SMC in mission (community psychiatry outside hospital walls) and operating model (Association loi 1901-style nonprofit).
• ARHM - Association de Recherche et de Réadaptation en Handicaps Mentaux: Lyon-area nonprofit providing residential, ambulatory, and medico-social services for people with mental health conditions. Geographically adjacent and operationally similar in service mix.

Others

• Fondation de France: Major French philanthropic foundation that funds healthcare and social solidarity initiatives including mental health nonprofits. Relevant as an adjacent funding ecosystem participant to SMC's grant-dependent model.
• UNAFAM: France's leading mental-health advocacy and family-support association for people with psychiatric conditions. Comparable in operating framework (national nonprofit) and population served, although UNAFAM focuses on advocacy and family aid rather than direct clinical care.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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