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Psychosocial Care for people with mental disorders
“Innovative Approaches in the Community based Psychosocial Care for people with mental disorders”
International Conference
Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek
28-29th of November 2013
For the last 7 years in Kyrgyzstan, several types of community-based care were developed by NGOs such as Outpatient Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center, Mobile Team (psychiatric care at home), self-help groups of people with mental disorders and Club House. There are still challenges to access community-based services in the country. The Conference was organized by the Association ПРОДВИЖЕНИЕ АЛЬТЕРНАТИВ with participations of experts from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Hungary in order to promote mental health reforms and community-based services. CARe Europe members Anna Kudiyarova (Kazakhstan), Zsolt Bugarszki (Hungary), and Lylia Pantaleeva (Kyrgyzstan) have also contributed to the event with their presentations sharing their experiences with local colleagues.
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Innovative Approaches in the Community based Psychosocial Care for people with mental disorders
In November 28 – 29, 2013 there will be International Conference on “Innovative Approaches in the Community based Psychosocial Care for people with mental disorders” in Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. For the last 7 years in Kyrgyzstan several types of community based care were developed by NGOs: Outpatient Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center, a Mobile Team (psychiatric care at home), self-help groups of people with mental disorders, Club House. At present in Kyrgyzstan there is the problem with access to outpatient community based psychosocial care that would help people with mental health problems to improve their quality of life and integrate into society.
Goal of the conference: International exchange of experience on developing community based care for people with mental disorders.
The topics for discussion at the conference are:
1. Development of Community Based Care for people with mental disorders.
2. Rehabilitation of labour skills of people with mental disorders.
3. Development of Supported living (Save housing, transitional housing) for people with mental disorders.
4. Development of self-help groups and Clubhouse.
5. Governmental financing community-based forms of psychiatric care in Kyrgyz Republic.
Working language of the conference is Russian with translation to English. We invite to Conference all participants who have interested in. You should send a letter with notification of participation by e-mail: rehab2006@mail.ru till October 20, 2013. or contact with us by phone 0996 312 38 19 74. Participation at the conference is free, but organization doesn’t cover transportation and accommodation expenses. Contact person: Jazgul Atagulova
27.11.2013📷
Living in the Space
Oliver has schizophrenia. In Oliver's life imagination and reality merge into a confusing, but dangerously gorgeous world where it's hard to resist being dragged into the world of illusions again, but Oliver struggles and is glad about every agonisingly boring, ordinary day.
Living in the Space (excerpt)
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16.11.2013📷
From institutionalization to community services
This seminar: Fostering Change in Romania From institutionalization to community services for people with mental health problems brought together representatives of public authorities from Romania with professionals actives in mental health from NGO-s and institutions, users and ex-users of mental health services and specialists from Mental Health Europe.
Although in Romania, the process of deinstitutionalization is still at the beginning, there is a tradition and experience in community services for people with severe mental health problems.
The most important actor in this area is the Estuar Foundation which celebrates this year 20 years of activity. With this occasion a series of events were organized in Bucharest and in Cluj-Napoca as it follows: Flash Mob for mental health on 10th of October; Seminar with international participation on “Fostering change in Romania - From institutionalization to community services for people with mental health problems” on 21st of October; Mental Health Gala on 22 October; the European Conference – From stigma to inclusion drivers of progress in the mental health field on 23-24 October.
The seminar “Fostering change in Romania - From institutionalization to community services for people with mental health problems” brought together representatives of public authorities from Romania with professionals actives in mental health from NGO-s and institutions, users and ex-users of mental health services and specialists from Mental Health Europe.
The seminar started with a presentation about the current situation of the deinstitutionalization process in Romania moderated by the director of the National Mental Health Center – Dr. Ileana Botezat Antonescu. The main aspects were about the current economical problems in Romania which slowed the process of de-institutionalization but also about the progress made until now. The representative of Mental Health Europe – Gabor Petri stressed that in many European countries are similar issues and presented some of the findings from the report “Mapping exclusion – institutional and community based services in the mental health field in Europe”. According to the findings in Romania there are 39 psychiatric hospitals with a total number of service users of 8107; 102 care and assistance centers with 1138 users; 21 integration centers by occupational therapy with 376 users; 56 recovery and rehabilitation centers with 2473 users and 52 neuropsychiatric recovery and rehabilitation centers with 5457 users.
The European Expert Group representatives – Jan Pfeiffer had a presentation about “Good practice, obstacles and pitfalls in the implementation of deinstitutionalization”. The participants appreciated as very useful the presentation which further opened the discussion about a strategy plan for accelerating the process of deinstitutionalization in Romania. The main idea was that a coalition of all important actors in mental health is the force that can pressure the authorities to move forward in this change. One point that was debated regarded the re-allocation of the actual budget (not asking for more money in the context of poor economic situation) and highlighting the benefits of community services versus institutional based care. Both Gabor Petri and Jan Pfeiffer expressed their availability and support for this initiative.
CARe Europe Country Representative for Romania
