Centre for mental health care development in cooperation with the local partner
People in Need Molodova, has been working in Moldova since 2015 thanks to the project activities focused on the process of deinstitutionalisation of institutions for the people with mental disorders and with learning difficulties.
Our goals in Moldova are moving clients of institutions to the protected housing, providing them with the quality services and integration them into the society. At the same time we fight with stigmata of mental disorders, we introduce new positions of so-called peer ambassadors who will report on their disability among the public or at schools. We provide local experts with experience from the Czech environment thanks to the Czech experts in supervision, methodological support, and transformation system from the legislative point of view.
- Educational activities for the National Agency for Social Asistance workers
- Education of the specialists in the field of mental illness recovery, overcoming barriers in social inclusion of the mentally ill persons
- Special visits to the institutions by the trained experts and working the reports of the recommendatio
- ns for moving the mentally disordered people into protected housing
- Providing consultations to the institutions staff regarding working with people with mental disorders
- Working out the concept of community service for mentally disabled within the transformation of the institutions
- Selection and training of the peer ambassadors, who lead workshops for students and public about their personal stories and recovery ways
- Producing destigmatization leaflets and video spots focused on the overcoming prejudice about people with mental disorders
- Producing methodological materials for protected housing and transformation of social care institutions
Czech experts involved in the project:
MUDr. Jan Pfeiffer – expert on deinstitualization and transformation
Mgr. Pavel Říčan – expert on social and health care interconnection
Mgr. Jan Paleček – expert supervisor
Mgr. Myroslava Bubela – expert on methodical support
Mgr. Jana Pluhaříková Pomajzlová - expert on methodical support
Implementation time frame: June 1st 2019 – December 31st 2021
Financial sources: Czech Development Agency
Partners of the project: