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22.02.2013📷
OZARA Slovenia, as every other years, will be very active in the year 2013.
In addition to regular activities and a number of international projects on which we work and cooperate, we will organize some interesting activities in the coming months whose aim is to raise public awareness about mental disorders and associated difficulties.
Next week we will officially present the new book for children who have suffered the greatest possible loss - death of a parent. This special and precious book was written by renowned Danish clinical psychologist dr. Christof Lehmann, while the beautiful illustrations was created by a promising Slovenian illustrator and designer Maja Čuk. A book that talks about a little rabbit and his family, who have to adapt to a difficult new situation after the death of the father rabbit. It will also be presented on a national television show “An hour with Bernarda” and during the midnight program on our national radio.
In February, we will take an active part in preparation of the special talk show “Midnight Club”, which is on program every Friday night on the Slovenian national television. The show will be dedicated to those who suffer from schizophrenia and their family members. The representative of our organization and recognised experts in the field of mental health, involved in the process of treatment and rehabilitation of people with mental health problems, will also be contributors to a discussion.
In short, but no later than at the beginning of March, we are going to publish the first Slovenian graphic novel about suicide “Swing”, specifically intended for youngsters. The book, written and illustrated by Žiga Valetič and Gašper Rus, will be issued in collaboration with one of the oldest and most important Slovenian publishing house Celjska Mohorjeva. Together with the advertising house TAM TAM, Ozara will prepare a special all-Slovene poster campaign. On more than 100 large-format posters, they will be hung on poster sites in 16 Slovenian cities. We will also be using the drawings from the graphic novel "Swing" to draw the attention to the too large number of deaths due to suicide in Slovenia.
In addition, we are in the midst of discussion about organising our traditional
running events "I'm running for Mental Health," which will be held in July. We are already planning to organise national campaigns on World Mental Health Day 2013
and World Suicide Prevention Day 2013. On the same day (10th of September 2013), we would like to present the Slovenian translation of the prof. Diego De Leo’s book “Turning Point”, which will be published in cooperation with the publishing house of the University of Primorska.
Updated: Nov 23, 2018
22.02.2013📷
New mental health report on Europe published by TAMÁS VERDES, Hungary
"Despite far-reaching changes in some countries institutions are still the dominant form of service-provision in many countries in Europe" - Mental Health Europe's new report 'Mapping Exclusion' starts with this synthetic observation, which is documented with 32 state-reports.
The report shed light on the main problem: The institutionalisation of people with mental health problems is one of the blatant human rights violations across Europe which is integrated in the social policy in most of the countries. While countries have ratified the United Nations Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities, most of them are reluctant to closing old institutions and developing an alternative system, which supports people with disabilities to living and working in the community.
22.02.2013📷
The first meeting of the Community Support Research Project partners were organised in Maastricht (Holland) in January, 2013.
The research project involves 4 European cities. Maastricht (Holland), Amersfoort (Holland), Tallinn (Estonia) and Budapest (Hungary) are participating in the project. Each city is represented by a University and by service providers that are involved in community based mental health services. The 18 months research program aims to explore how community based services are helping users to get real connection to their local communities. Involvement, participations and citizenships are the key words of the project. We try to explore and highlight those successful methods and solutions that really lead to social participation. At the end of January the four research groups were presenting their city's situation and their local project plan in order to promote community involvement of people with mental health problems.
