Description
The project will provide the preparation of personnel for a new health and social services approach that will be implemented following a governmental reform of psychiatric care in the Czech Republic. The main objective of the project is to fight stigma of mentally ill people among health and social care providers. The project outcomes are: 1) the establishing of a model multidisciplinary community team consisting of selected employees of the project promoter and the mental hospital Kosmonosy; and 2) basic education for the employees of the beneficiary and the mental hospital Kosmonosy. The target group of the project are long-term mentally ill people.
Summary of project results
The goal of the project was to fight a stigma of mentally ill people among health and social care providers and to increase readiness of the providers for transformation of psychiatric care. The goal has been fulfilled. Personnel of psychiatric hospital Kosmonosy was educated. Multidisciplinary team was set and consisted of social workers, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologist and peer specialist. Both activities led to significant change of view on our patients/clients. Especially for medical personnel the opportunity to meet their patients at their homes has been something new because until they knew them only from the hospital. Also the closer cooperation between social service and psychiatric hospital led to better communication between both organizations. It makes our communication faster and more efficient and that results into improvement in providing of services. We have created multidisciplinary team which provided services to 34 persons from the target group. During the realization of the project there has been 20 team meetings. 20 empolyees of psychiatric hospital attended a seminar about reform of psychiatric care. Methodology of multidisciplinary team has been created. Outputs of project: 34 supported clients, methodology, 20 educated personnel of psychiatric hospital, 20 team meetings
Summary of bilateral results