Description
The Project SOCIAL SERVICES ABOUT AND FOR MENTAL HEALTH will be implemented by Estuar Foundation in partnership with the The General Department of Social Assistance and Child Protection, 6th District, Bucharest and aims to increase access and provision of basic and specialized social services for vulnerable groups comprised of individuals with problems mental health and their families, to develope a club-house and service counseling face-to-face, telephone and on-line (in Bucuresti, Cuj-Napoca, Giurgiu and Ploiesti) for 470 people, counseling activities about relapse management and stress management for caregivers -150 people and specialists -100 people. The project will have as results: clubhouse services, psychology, psychiatry and social counseling, transfer of expertise from the partner to the applicant, training on relapse and stress management, organizational assessment and the implementation of a management quality process etc.
Summary of project results
Persons with mental health problems are facing a huge challenge: to live with a diagnosis that is most of the times interfering with their family and social life, isolating them from society. In order to offer a solution to this challenge, the promoter has initiated in Bucharest the Estuar ClubHouse - the first of this type in Romania. The ClubHouse delivered a wide range of services from which the members could choose, so that their needs and lives go forward. The Estuar ClubHouse center succeeded to create a community for persons with mental health problems: it offered them a cosy space with activities in which they can actively get involved and practice responsibility, organisation, planning and initiative spirit. 71 members registered at the centre and participated in the activities. In the framework of the project, within 4 centres of multidisciplinary counselling (psychological, social and psychiatrically), 245 persons with mental health issues and 155 family members benefited of face-to-face counselling. The phone and online counselling services facilitated the access for a larger number of people and increased the level of information among the adult persons with mental health and their family members regarding the social, psychiatrically and psychological issues and solutions / resources that are available. A total number of 900 persons accessed these services. Also, stress management and relapses management courses were organised. 44 groups of information and support for a number of 565 patients (adult persons with mental health problems that were hospitalised in psychiatric wards) were organised during the project.
Summary of bilateral results