As a logical continuation of activities conducted in 2014, the
program for 2015, again in partnership with the International Aid
Network /IAN/ trains and involves different categories of
psychiatric practicioners in the process of deinstitutionalization,
focuses on the functioning of mental health services and continues
advocating for the reform of Serbia's mental healthcare system.
In cooperation with the Citizen’s Ombudsman, the Provincial
Ombudsman /Vojvodina/, and governmental and non-governmental
stakeholders assembled in the already functioning and higly
motivated working group, partner organizations upgrade and diversify
the activities leading towards efficient protection of persons with
mental disorders by organizing one “job shadowing” tour to the
Trieste Mental Health Services for four psychiatrists and a 3-day
course of training in practical aspects of community-based care for
nurses and medical technicians from Novi Knezevac, Vrsac, Kragujevac
and Sombor; paying fact-finding missions to mental health services
in 4 above-mentioned towns; producing two E-publications, including
a practical guide to the establishment of functional mental health
services in Serbia; and, last but not least, by staging a public
hearing /parliamentary committee/, a final conference assembling all
the stakeholders and one press conference.
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