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The general aim of the project is to promote and stabilize the patient organisation “Studio 27 - focused on the soul” and make possible the realization of its mission to employ people with mental health problems in intellectual positions. By means of the original edifying informational campaign “PEER helps” to act on change of the public attitudes towards the psychiatry patients, to change the power distribution in the mental health care from the hierarchical one to the equal one and strengthen the position of peer workers in the system.
The peers in Czechia are a relatively new and yet established feature of the system of mental health care. Currently 150 of them work in several types of positions.
The peers give unique contribution to the mental health discussion based on their personal experience with the illness and their way to recovery. We are independent video journalists. We intend to acquire further education and expert consultations by our partners, Fokus Praha and P3.
Many times we have stood both behind the camera and in front of it. From the emancipation of our voice we made a shift to the promotion of the whole community of mental health patients.
On the basis of our research the peers are ready to come out with their stories to the public. Strengthening of peer workers and their mission will lead to the rehabilitation of patients’ view, to the establishment of trust and belonging between patients with mental problems. Thus we will contribute to the social change, whose necessity everyone proclaims, but no one knows how it should occur. We will increase the public awareness about mental health with attention to the peer movement personalities.
The project of Studio 27 is also in accordance with the National action plan for mental health 2020-30. We take part in the efforts for a community-based and democratic approach to the mental health issues, by means of enlightenment and promotion of this area we achieve a discreet, but deep change.