Roll up our sleeves for mental health – UDRUGA FENIKS

Roll up our sleeves for mental health – UDRUGA FENIKS

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The main goals are to protect and improve mental health for people with mental health issues and their families with developing and implementing innovative free models of psychosocial support while collaborating with key stakeholders in the local community; to provide non-institutional services in accordance with examples of good practice in other countries; to provide possibilities for quality, fun, creative and active leisure time outside institutions during which members will acquire new knowledge and skills, raise their level of self-confidence, improve social skills, which will ultimately lead to strengthening resilience and potentially reducing the number of hospitalizations, to strengthen capacity and knowledge of peer workers, etc. Some of the activities are: weekly peer support groups, 15 work-occupational workshops (art, carpentry and gardening), educational training for facilitators of intentional peer support groups, education about improving social skills, etc.