Child and adolescent mental health team in Kutná Hora, municipality with extended competence: founding, pilot operation and multidisciplinary programme

Project facts

Project promoter:
Elementary School Zruč nad Sázavou(CZ)
Project Number:
CZ-HEALTH-0011
Status:
Completed
Final project cost:
€582,367
Donor Project Partners:
Ostbytunet – Center for treatment and Professional Development in Child Psychiatry(NO)
Other Project Partners
Pedagogical and Psychological Counselling Centre of the Central Bohemian Region
Kutná Hora branch(CZ)
The Kamenná Stezka Primary School in Kutná Hora(CZ)
Programme:

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Description

The project will be implemented by the Zruč nad Sázavou primary school in Kutná Hora, a municipality with extended jurisdiction (MEJ), where there are 25 nursery schools, 19 primary schools, and 5 high schools with a total of 707 teachers, attended by ca 7 thousand children and adolescents in total.

The project aims to support the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents in the area of the Kutná Hora MEJ, improve access to relevant local services. etc. It involves the CREATION AND 2 YEARS OF ACTIVITY BY A CHILDREN’S AND ADOLESCENTS’ MENTAL HEALTH TEAM (MHT) – a model that fully corresponds to the Czech Republic’s psychiatric care reform strategy. The MHT will primarily work in the area of prevention, education and to support the de-stigmatization of mental illness. 

The project has FIVE ACTIVITIES WITH SYNERGISTIC EFFECT:
-    Creation of an MHT in the Kutná Hora MEJ, creation of support facilities for its activities
-    2 years of pilot activities of the MHT in the Kutná Hora MEJ (2 sub-teams)
-    Transfer and establishment of a Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics to the Czech Republic
-    Education for teachers at the 2nd stage of elementary school and high school in the Kutná Hora MEJ: an accredited two-day course with follow-up consultations
-    2 de-stigmatization campaigns, Mental Health Weeks for the general public, 2 symposia for professionals

The partner is the Ostbytunet Center for Treatment and Professional Development in Child Psychiatry (Oslo, Norway), which operates a psychiatric facility for children and youth that combines a clinic, school, and daycare. Cooperation will involve the transfer and establishment of a Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, with which the Norwegian partner has many years of experience, to the Czech Republic.

Additional partners: The Kamenná Stezka Primary School in Kutná Hora and the Pedagogical and Psychological Counselling Centre of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora branch.

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