Description
The Czech Republic is one of the countries in the EU which does not have a functioning system of comprehensive and complex programmes for mental health care. At the present time, the mental disorder care process focuses mostly on the initial phase of stabilization. The Complex Therapy Centre created within this project should supplement this process with a systematic programme which will provide assistance to the patients with re-orientation and primarily re-integration into normal life with residency and ideally with work outside the hospital. Therefore the main goal is to improve quality and efficiency of treatment processes with the aim of reducing the time and frequency of hospital stays and support patients’ integration into society outside the hospital. This will be achieved by building two new training facilities: a centre for manual skills with workshop premises for: Gym, ergo-therapy, group therapy and centre for psycho-social skills including washing room, kitchen, and a computer training room. The project objective is designed to provide a response to this missing element of health and social care for patients suffering from serious mental disorders. There is no donor project partner.
Summary of project results
Before the project implementation, there was no comprehensive mental health care programme developed and there was insufficient interconnection of health and social care services for citizens with serious mental illness (SMI). The recovery process was focused primarily on the initial phase of stabilization. The ambition of the project was, thus, to create programme which would help patients to cope with next stages of recovery and, in particular, help them to re-integrate into their normal daily life, find accommodation and employment. As a result of the project, newly created Center for Complex Rehabilitation for patients with SMI was established and reconstructed. Implementation of the project has contributed towards improvement of quality and efficiency of treatment processes, reducing time and frequency of hospital stays and supporting patients’ integration into society outside the hospital. There were built two new training facilities: training centre for manual skills (for different kind of therapies such as ergo-therapy, artheterapy etc.) and training centre for psycho-social skills including laundry, kitchen, and a computer training room. Case management team was established, manual of therapeutic techniques developed and process of complex psychiatric rehabilitation carried out. The added value of the project implementation was cooperation with Czech University Department of Ergotherapy and Physiotherapy and 3 non-profit organizations. Together they have prepared 46 patients for return back to normal life and prepared conditions for prevention of subsequent possible complications in the area of social and health care. 80 patients with SMI participated in the psychiatric rehabilitation programme. Before the project’s implementation, there was no cooperation with such wide scope of non-profit organisations. The partner from the donor country was not involved in the project.
Summary of bilateral results