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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.
Chair: Lina Ciuksiene, Tel. mob.
+370 610 06178, e-mail lpspvd[at]yahoo.com
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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 · Contact: Club "Biciules", Muitines
2, LT-3000 KAUNAS, Tel. +370 37 422783 (Hospital), Fax +370
37 423105 (Hospital), e-mail klubas.biciules[at]gmail.com
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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 site www.club13.lt, 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, e-mail
info@club13.lt
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