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For Recovery and Inclusion
Croatia, Zagreb
ZAGREB - NGO SUSRET, Croatia
For Croatia, many things were going on in Rijeka and slightly less in Zagreb.
Mrs. Martina Kalčić is head of Social welfare home 'Turnić' in Rijeka as they had lots of activities, specified in the presentation.
Susret's news including the signing of the contract with City of Zagreb for 1 social apartment (100 m2) which costs ten times less than the apartments on the open market. That will help to reduce the cost of service and increase sustainability.
Also, Susret have more tenants (18 comparing to 12 from the last year) due to the DI program which was conducted.
We introduced the new web page with personal stories of the people we support http://udruga-susret.hr/story/.
Updates by Radmila Stojanovic Babic
Radmila Stojanovic Babic
ZAGREB CROATIA
CARe Ambassador in Croatia
Advisor on Board of The CARe Network
Social pedagogue and integrative psychotherapist
The CARe Network - CARe Trainer For TtT Year 2017/2019 'Tepla4'
Radmila Stojanovic Babic (Zagreb, Croatia) is social pedagogue and integrative psychotherapist.
She worked in business sector until 2006 when she co-established the association for psychosocial support Susret that provides supported community based living for people with mental health problems in Zagreb. Community based living is the first social service of that kind in Croatia and was developed with support of Open Society Foundation.
As of 2011, she is a guest Lecturer on Healthcare University in Zagreb - Course Psychiatry Nursing and University of Social sciences – Course Mental Health.
Presently she is head of service support.
CARe Ambassador in Croatia
Dalibor Fijan
ZAGREB CROATIA
Tepla 3 CARe Train-the-Trainers Programme Year 2015/2017
CARe Ambassador in Croatia
Dalibor Fijan
ZAGREB CROATIA
Tepla 3 CARe Train-the-Trainers Programme Year 2015/2017
CARe Ambassador in Croatia
Deni Brnjak
ZAGREB CROATIA
Tepla 3 CARe Train-the-Trainers Programme Year 2015/2017
Rijeka
CARe Ambassador in Croatia Rijeka
Martina Baiocco
Social worker, University Specialist of Health Promotion and prevention of addiction
Hearing Voices Group facilitator
Director of Home for Adults Turnić in Rijeka, Croatia
I worked as a social worker in the Center for Social Wellfare in Rijeka, mainly with people with mental and intellectual challenges, for almost 10 years. After that, I had the experience of working in the Ministry, monitoring the work of professionals in the social welfare system.
From 2012, I am the head of The Home for Adults Turnić in Rijeka, a provider of social services for people with mental health challenges.
From 2017, I am the responsible person for ESF project “Prilika” throughout which the institution is developing new community service and strengthening the capacities of the professionals.
During the 6 years period, the institution has been partly Di-ed and has opened 8 community houses. Besides that, the daily care service has been established successfully. The newest established service is the psychosocial support service for individuals and groups.
The Home has also developed the peer support groups, especially Hearing Voices Groups.
Under the guidance of Home Turnić, the NGO “Support” has been established in Rijeka, with the main goal to support the family members of people with mental health issues.
Other important activity is the organisation of Mentalfest- The Festival of Mental Health together with all local stakeholders involved in mental health as partners. The Mentalfest has become tradition and it is an event that lasts for the whole week with very rich program.
The Project is going to enable us also a lot of creative activities: printing of “The Cookbook for the independent Living” and a 60 minutes documentary film about our transformation and new lives of our clients.
2017 has been a year with many success stories for us. Our radio show that goes on for a year now has won the biggest national journalists prise for the best radio-show of the year from the Croatian Journalists Society.
Together with all important local stakeholders, we organized the second Mentalfest – The Festival of Mental Health. During the week from 9th to 14th October, we organized a lot of different activities in Rijeka. We also organized 2 days users conference with the participation of 'experts by experience' from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, and Croatia, with all costs covered by our donors.
We also continue our collaboration with the Psychiatric Hospital Lopača whose psychiatrists take care of our clients. In a particular way, Dr. Dragan Lovrović is our Community Psychiatrists and goes to our community houses.
In everything we do, we try to make our people become citizens and return their dignity taken from them during the years of life in the institution. Connecting with schools, University, kindergarten, NGO’s and other local stakeholders help us become accepted.
Updates by Martina Baiocco
Mentalfest and The Home for Adults Turnić, Rijeka
On October 5th, Dom Turnić signed the contract for the European Social Fund project called „The Chance“. Through that project, in the period of three years, we are going to develop new community services: opening 9 new community flats, organize individual and group psychosocial support in the institution and in families, employ new professionals and enable them an education.
CARe Ambassador in Croatia Rijeka
Alenka Vondra Butigan
Studied Occupational Therapy at
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