1. Model Sites Project
The idea of „Model Sites Project“ came from Open Society Institute, Mental Health
Initiative, Budapest. The main goal of this project was to find the “best practice
organisations” in the region of Central and Eastern Europe and broaden their practi-
ces, knowledge and experiences to other organisations in this region.
Civic Association Green Doors became one of 7 addressed organisations, which
were called on to realize 2 years educational program. The Model Sites Project took
place in Civic Association Green Doors in the years 2002 – 2004.
To broaden the idea of “training cafés”, turn over the experiences with realization
of the projects and help in establishing new projects in participant’s organisations,
were the main commissions of the educational programme in C.A. Green Doors. “Tra-
ining cafés”, how C.A. Green Doors run them, are the projects, where vocational and
social rehabilitation is interconnected with the services for general public. Cafés are
intended mainly for young people with mental disability in early stage of the illness,
who prepare them selves here to return to ordinary lives, to open labour market or to
school.
There were 6 organisations participating:
„Alternativa“ from Albania
Contact person: Adriatik Bicaku, Avni Lami
Address: Alternativa Organization, Resource centre for Mental Health,
Rr. Gjon Muzaka Nr 40 Tirana, Albania.
Tel/fax: 00 355 4 232 985
E-mail: adri@albnet.com.al
„Children of Kubrat“ from Bulgaria
Contact person: Emil Traev
Address: Kniaz Donducov Blvd 109, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
Tel.: + 359 2 843 10 32
Email: kubratbg@yahoo.com
„Estuar, Cluj Community Center“ from Romania
Contact person: Liana Fanca
Address: Str. Paris, nr. 35, Cluj-Napoca, code: 400161, Romania
Tel/Fax: +40264/432291
Mobile: +40788 390 713
E-mail: estuar@mail.dntcj.ro
Website: www.estuar.org
„Mental Health Initiative“ from Lithuania
Contact person: Nijole Gostautaite Midttun
Address: Teatro 3-10, LT –03107 Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel.: +370 698 04522
Fax: + 370 261 93 77
Email: nigomi@hotmail.com
„Psychiatric Nurses Association“ from Latvia
Contact person: Jekaterina Jeremejeva, Skaidrite Pudane
Address: Stiebru – 9, Jelgava LV – 3001, Latvia
Tel.: 00 371 9219544
Email: e_katerina@one.lv, pudane@apollo.lv
„Soteria Foundation“ from Hungary
Contact person: Zsolt Bugarszki
Address: H 1053 Budapest, Kecskeméti str. 11, Hungary
Tel/fax: +36 1 2661795
E-mail: soteria@axelero.hu
Website: www.soteria.hu
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2. Outcomes of the Model Sites Project:
„Alternativa“ from Albania
- Improving the quality and empowering of provided
services in the organisation.
- Undertaking of some rehabilitation instruments
and approaches.
- Inspiration to establish a mental health NGO alliance,
which would create a strong support and movement
of mental health organization in the field. Alternativa
initiated establishment of this alliance in Albania.
- Help in strategy thinking about the organisation
and about its plans.
„Children of Kubrat“ from Bulgaria
- Inspiration to create the project of training café
and day care centre.
- Meeting other organisations and turning out the
experiences, acquire more objectivity and supervision.
- Acquiring more trust to professionals in psychiatric services
and strengthening of the cooperation.
„Estuar, Cluj Social Centre“ from Romania
- Processing and preparation of the training café project
in the town Cluj.
- Undertaking of some rehabilitation instruments and
approaches.
- Meeting other organisations in the region of Central
and Eastern Europe, creation of partnership and contacts
with them.
„Mental Health Initiative“ from Lithuania
- Publication of professional topics and outcomes from
educational program in the journal “Psychiatrios žinios”
edited by Mental Health Initiative.
- Acquiring of new insight to work with people with mental
disability, undertaking of some rehabilitation instruments
and approaches, broaden the view of possibilities in mental
health care.
- Enlarging of the programs of occupational therapy
in participant‘s psychiatric hospital.
- Realization of the exhibitions of authors with mental
disability.
„Psychiatric Nurses Association“ from Latvia:
- Opening of sheltered shop with the products from people
with mental disability in the year 2003. In this shop
vocational rehabilitation and employment is provided
for the people with mental disability.
- Preparation to open training café.
- Realization of 2 professional seminars with the main item
mental health and vocational rehabilitation
- Joint educational project of Psychiatric Nurses Association
and C.A. Green Doors in Latvia.
- Establishment of self-help groups of the patients
and relatives in the psychiatric hospital.
„Soteria Foundation“ from Hungary
- Opening of the training café “RS9” in Budapest in 2003,
which had been also the first, pilot project of sheltered
employment in mental health field in Hungary.
- The café “RS9” became a centre of propagation
and culture activities focused on de-stigmatisation.
- Build up close cooperation with C.A. Green Doors,
creating of joint projects centred mainly to supervision
and description of methodology of the training cafés.
O.s.Green Doors from Czech Republic
- Enlarging the activities of the organisation towards
educational programs for other organisations
and professionals, creation of educational materials
in Czech and English language.
- Acknowledgement of the organisation as “good practice”,
which enable the organisation to participate in different
conferences and seminars, mainly abroad. There we could
present our organisation and our work and to get new
information about development in mental health care.
- Meeting other organisations in the region of Central
and Eastern Europe, creation of partnership and contacts,
realisation of new joint projects.
For leading and realisation of the project were responsible:
Bc. Jana Pomajzlová and Mgr. Lucie Broukalová
We would like to thank to Open Society Institute
for the opportunity to be part of this project, for
financial sources and for help in realization of the
Model Sites Project. We would like to thank also to
all participants organisations for their interest, work
and kind company. Many thanks belong to interpre-
ters, who have had a hard time and who were
essential for realisation of the project. Thanks
belong also to all experts and professional partners
in the Czech Republic and to all employees of C. A.
Green Doors, who took part in realisation of lectures
and excursions, and mainly who created a big
support and basis for the whole project.
For more information about this project you can contact:
Bc. Jana Pomajzlová, c. a. Green Doors
Tel./Fax: +420 261 211 091
Tel.: +420 775 961 964
E-mail : jana@greendoors.cz
www.greendoors.cz
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