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Groups of (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry (and other
addresses) in Slovenia
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* ALTRA
– Committee for Innovations in Mental Health. Established
in 1988, Altra – is a non-governmental organisation with
a full respect of integrated and interdisciplinary approach
to the psychosocial distress of an individual. In the last few
years, Altra has covered a wide range of services and offers
help to people with problems in mental health and other people
in crisis. Our programmes include home groups, care management,
self-help groups, counselling, a drop-in centre and a work rehabilitation
programme, and are based on the main aims: user empowerment,
abolishment of social and material exclusion, expansion of the
user's social network, active spending of spare time and users
participation in a more pro-active way in planning and implementing
the programmes · Publications: Web sites www.ljudmila.org/altra,
www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/slovenia.html#altra · Contact:
Altra, Grabloviceva 28, SL-1000 LJUBLJANA, Tel. +386 1 434 73
18, +386 1 434 73 19, Fax +386 1 434 73 19, eMail drustvoaltra@hotmail.com
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Mir
Sreče. The NGO Mir Sreče was founded in 1999
and has been active ever since. Our main goal is to help people
with mental illness of any kind, if possible without hospitalisation.
We seek total rehabilitation in every user we work with. Our
work is based on first hand experience and user's collaboration.
We feel that in order to help someone, we must really be involved
and understand what we are doing. However we also bring professionals
to help us. We started as a very small NGO, but we are growing
rapidly. In the year 2002 our work has extended a couple of
times comparing to the year before, and still growing ·
Publications: Web site www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/slovenia.html#Mir%20Srece
· Contact: Mir Sreče, Jelovkova 11d, SL-1000 LJUBLJANA,
Tel. / Fax +386 1 429 23 45, eMail igor.uhan@guest.arnes.si
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* Novi
Paradoks. Novi Paradoks is a national mental health organisation
which is established and run only by users and ex-users of psychiatry.
Working in the field of sheltered living, day centres, working
for children of psychiatric patients, labour rehabilitation
programmes · Publications: Web sites www.drustvo-paradoks.si
· Contact: Novi Paradoks, Vrhovci XVII/40, SL-1000 LJUBLJANA,
Tel. +386 1 4228561, Fax +386 1 4228563, eMail paradoks1@siol.net.
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* OZARA, Meljska 12, SL-2000
MARIBOR
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* Paradoks,
Paradoks is in Slovenia a mental health organisation which is
established and run only by users and exusers of psychiatry
· Publications: Web site www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/slovenia.html#Paradoks
· Contact: Paradoks, Vrhovci, c, XVII. št.40, SL-1000 LJUBLJANA
, Tel. +386 1 4228561, Fax +386 1 4228563, eMail paradoks1@siol.net
(other address: Paradoks, Postojnska 12A, 1000 SL-LJUBLJANA,
Tel. +386 61 1259829)
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* ŠENT
(Slovenian Association for Mental Health) · Target group
of our organisation: people with problems in mental health,
their relatives, professionals working in this field and people
interested in this topic · Aims: Psychosocial rehabilitation
of people with mental health problems and creation of new employment
possibilities for hard to employ people; organizing housing
groups for users; Association ŠENT forms, implements and
performs programmes that cover fields of social and health care,
education in the field of mental health, consulting, advocacy,
informing wider public about the topic, de-stigmatizing, vocational
training and employment · Organization form: national registered
organisation · Status of workers: 70% paid workers and
30% volunteers · Funding: State budget resources, local
budget resources, donations, own resources, resources from EU
funds · Publications: Web site www.sent-si.org, www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/slovenia.html#Sent,
every two months we publish association's newspaper containing
stories from our branches, different articles written by users,
professional, carers and other; we are publishing books written
or translated by users and professional literature written by
Slovenian or foreign professionals in this field · Contact:
ŠENT, Vilharjeva 22, SL-1000 LJUBLJANA, Tel. +386 1 2307830,
Fax +386 1 2307838, eMail info@sent-si.org
(other phone and fax: Tel. +386 61 1343156, Fax +386 61 131
9408)
- * VEZI.
Formed in 1998 by relatives of mentally ill people living in Carst,
Slovenia, currently has 75 members. Our aim is to develop health,
social and work rehabilitation. We help to solve the family's
problems with education and with development of self-help groups
for families and users. In our two day-centres, (Štorje and
Štanjel) established with the assistance of Hamlet Trust,
we develop different aims of work, including souvenir art, culinary
art and growing vegetables. We encourage the development of our
members' creative abilities, and have engaged the wider public
through successful art exhibitions and press articles and now
with an art gallery in Štanjel. Recently we opened a new
group-home in Brestovica, also established with Hamlet's assistance.
There are 6 men and women, who have now found a home after long-term
stays in hospital. We are keen to develop and maintain ties with
other similar organisations. http://www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/slovenia.html#Vezi
· Contact: VEZI, Storje 26, SL-6210 SEZANA, Tel. / Fax +386
5 7685200, eMail drustvo.vezi@siol.net
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