Outreach Psychosocial Team

Project facts

Project promoter:
Mana association
Project Number:
CZ11-0056
Target groups
People with mental health problems
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€42,411
Final project cost:
€41,046
From Norway Grants:
€ 36,941
The project is carried out in:
Olomoucký kraj

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Description

Currently, there is missing care for the seriously mentally ill people provided through outreach in the Olomoucko region. The main objective of project is to improve community care for mentally ill patients in the Olomouc region and improve the quality of life of patients by providing support and care at home. The project is aimed at providing outreach psychosocial care for mentally ill patients in the Olomouc region. The main project activities include the formation of outreach psychosocial team (psychiatric nurse, social worker), professional training for the Společnost Mana,o.p.s. staff, working with mentally ill patients by outreach care method, organizing self-help groups for family members, providing social and legal advice. The project is focused on people with severe mental illness and psychosis diagnosis.

Summary of project results

The main objective of the sub-project is to improve community care for mentally ill patients/clients in the Olomouc Region and to improve the lives of these patients by providing support and professional care in the home environment. It lead to the establishment of the "field psychosocial team" service (a patient care program based on the needs of psychiatric reform and the efforts to deinstitutionalise care for mentally ill). A field psychosocial team was created from the employees with experience in contact social work and with medical experience from the psychiatric clinic of the Military Hospital in Olomouc. A publicity campaign was launched, focused on both the broad public and the mental health professionals working in the field of mental health. 1. Setting up a working team, a selection procedure for the position of a field psychiatric nurse 2. Working out the methodology for the work of a field psychosocial team 3. Caring for patients in outpatient care by the field psychosocial team 4. Organizing self-help groups 5. Training of workers

Summary of bilateral results