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Financed from NO FM
Programme outcome the project contributes to “Improved prevention and reduced inequalities in health”
The project will establish a uniform, evidence-based and cross-sectoral system of out-patient services for long-term mentally ill patients subjected to coercive treatment, increase the quality of psychiatric evaluation to improve judiciary procedures and secure human rights in the use of coercion during treatment.
Project activities shall include:
- The development and implementation of out-patient services, combining state and local level services for long-term mentally ill patients subjected to coercive treatment;
- The development and piloting of a model for cross-sectoral cooperation between specialists in health care, social care and the judicial sector sectors at local and regional level;
- Training for multi-sectoral teams, social workers and family members of patients to deal with patients/clients with chronical mental illness;
- The development and implementing of a model for a multidisciplinary forensic psychiatric committee to improve the quality of psychiatric evaluation, to ensure proper judiciary procedures and to secure the human rights of patients in the use of coercion during treatment;
- The adaptation process of 6 of evidence-based evaluation instruments is prepared and the validation process of these instruments has been launched to accommodate them to the Estonian needs.