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Groups of (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry (and other
addresses) in Lithuania
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* Lietuvos
psichikos sveikatos paslaugu vartotoju draugija (Lithuanian
Fellowship of Mental Health Care Users). Members of the organization
represent mainly local self-help organizations from all Lithuania.
According to the statutes, members can be users, professionals
and others, who agree with the main goals of the organization,
connected with representation of users' interests in mental
health system · Publications: web site www.enusp.org/groups/l/lietuvos.htm
· Contact: Lietuvos psichikos sveikatos paslaugu vartotoju
draugija, Oginskio 3, LT-2040 VILNIUS, eMail lpspvd@mail.lt.
Chair: Lina Ciuksiene, Tel. mob. +370
610 06178, eMail lelys@delfi.lt
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* Biciules:
Club of women with mental disablement · Target group: women
with mental problems and their relatives - open to all women
· Aims: To develop health and social rehabilitation for
people suffering from lasting mental disablement; to change
and form society's attitude towards people suffering from mental
disablement; to help to solve the club members problems and
to defend their interests; to develop self-help and cooperation
skills; to induce the club members creative abilities, to familiarize
the society with their works (exhibitions, articles in the press);
to maintain ties with other similar organizations; to draw the
government attention to non-governmental organizations taking
care of the society's mental health and to strive that the mental
patients rehabilitation would become part of the state programs
· Organisation form: local · Status of workers: volunteers
· Funding: Kaunas City Municipality and Hamlet Trust ·
Publications: Booklet on the club, work calendar illustrated
with the club members paintings and drawings and poems, pharmaceutical
firms information publications on medications illustrated with
the club members paintings and drawings; at present the club
members selected poems illustrated with paintings and drawings
are being published · Publications: web site www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/lithuania.html#biciules
· Contact: Club "Biciules", Muitines 2, LT-3000
KAUNAS, Tel. +370 37 422783 (Hospital), Fax +370 37 423105 (Hospital),
eMail margarb@one.lt
- * Club
13 and Co. · Club 13 & Co. is an independent, public
and non-governmental organisation which invites to its ranks people
with psychiatric experience as well as their family members, professionals
of mental hospitals and supporters of the organisation. Founded
in March 1993 at the Vilnius Republican Psychiatric Hospital by
the psychiatrist Danguole Survilaite, it was the first organisation
of its type in Lithuania. Since then the patients' movement began
its activities in psychosocial rehabilitation in Lithuania ·
Publications: web sites www.club13.lt, www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/lithuania.html#club13,
quarterly newspaper News of Club 13& Co. (since 1998),
calendar Visions (1998) and Reflections (2001) with
paintings of psychiatric patients, collection of verses Windmills
(1999) · Contact: Club 13 and Co., Vilnius Psychiatric Clinic,
Parko 15, LT-2001 (or 2041?) VILNIUS, Tel. +370 5 2670613, Fax:
+370 5 2671503, eMail Club13andco@centras.lt.
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