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Achievements:

• Opened 7 community living houses for 26 DI-ed clients

• The houses are rented and are regular houses or apartments in the mountain area 30 minutes from the city of Rijeka and in Rijeka

• The level of support is being provided according to the client’s needs and the approach is individualised

• Opened a daily care centre that works as a „recovery school”

• Daily centre works for 3 years now and is not “a kindergarden for adults” as many people think but a real recovery school that helps people become more independent and have surrounding that gives acceptance and support

• We have 15 clients which is a full capacity for the space we have

• Educated workers and clients for facilitating Hearing Voices groups

• 3 of our workers and 2 of our clients attended the education for facilitating HV groups

• Became a member of Intervoice

• We became members of Intervoice, the international organisation that supports people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual experiences or beliefs

• Established West Balkans Hearing Voices Network

• Together with NGO’s from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Serbia we established the West Balkans Hearing Voices Network

• We share some projects and promote destigmatisation of people with mental health issues

• Established 2 Hearing Voices peer support groups

• In the city of Rijeka we have two Hearing Voices groups at the moment

• The groups are free of charge and are peer support groups for people who have unusual experiences, beliefs, hear voice or see visions

• We organised important and very attended education and events on mental health and Hearing Voices movement with internationally respected lecturers: „5 Days for Mental Health” (October 2015) and 3-day workshop on Hearing Voices (May 2016)

• Organised a 2-day workshop on the topic of Personal plan and risk assessment with the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of social work for professionals, clients and their family members

• Our institution has a theatre group that performs in social and other public institutions but also in the community

• In collaboration with NGO “Vida” we have succeeded to establish a NGO “Support” whose goal is to give support for the family members, partners, friends of people with mental health issues

• Through collaboration with Psychiatric hospital Lopača (private, owned by municipality) we are trying to develop community psychiatry model

• We have had two appearances on national TV with client’s stories, many articles in newspapers etc.

 

In progress:

• Organisation of „Mentalfest – Festival of Mental Health” (collaboration with psychiatric hospitals, university, NGO, medical school, and many others), from 10 – 15 October in many locations in Rijeka and its surroundings

• This is the first time that health and social welfare system organise together such a big event dedicated to mental health and destigmatisation

 

• Radio show on national radio „Who’s crazy here?”- the first show is gonna go on air on October 10 and then once a month

 

• This show is a part of a regional project of radio shows  created by people with mental health issues

• Applied for funding for a 3 year program during which we should spread the knowledge and experience on CARe methodology and Hearing Voices 

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Updates by Martina Kalčić

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