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The project "Mental health needs Empowerment" starts from the need to increase the capacity of people with mental health problems to address the problems that affect them directly and to include them in the decision-making processes in this field. It aims to: 1) develop an integrated national program to increase the capacity of self-representation for 40 people with mental health problems in 4 cities to be empowered in order to be an active voice in the community and in relation to the political decision makers at local and central level in the area of health, education, employment, social services and human rights (150 beneficiaries from Bucharest, Ploiesti, Cluj and Giurgiu will be involved, 60 beneficiaries from Iasi, Timisoara, Sibiu and Brasov, 100 family members and 40 representatives of public authorities); 2) developing, piloting, validating and launching a self-representing model for people with mental health problems in order to change their attitudes and practices in relation to political decision makers at local and central level. 3) development of a national advocacy campaign, with the direct involvement of 40 people with mental health problems, in order to put on the public agenda the question of their access to social and health services with the purpose of inclusion in the community. Also, the project aims to develop on the medium and long term the sustainability of Estuar Foundation by adding in the organizational chart a component of Communication and Fundraising. In this regard, Estuar Foundation, with over 26 years of direct expertise co-opted as partner, Opportunity Associates Romania, which for over 20 years trains trainers and supports increasing their capacity to develop and exploit their potential.