Groups of (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry (and other addresses) in Slovenia

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Warning! We cannot guarantee for the correctness of the addresses nor the actual political or personal positions of the persons or groups on the list. User/survivor of psychiatry groups have different positions and perspectives. Trying out contact addresses is always at your own risk. / ENUSP does not accept any money from the drug industry. National, regional and local organisations, however, take their own decisions. For reasons of transparency, we refer to a (co-)financing by pharmaceutical companies as far as we know about it by the addition "sponsored by pharmaceutical companies."

• * 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 site www.altra.si · Contact: Altra, Grabloviceva 28, SL-1000 LJUBLJANA, Tel. +386 1 434 73 18, +386 1 434 73 19, Fax +386 1 434 73 19, E-Mail info[at]altra.si

• * Društvo Mostovi: društvo za zdravje v duševnem zdravju (Bridges: organisation for health in mental health): working to promote mutual and human help · Aims: to stimulate various forms of perspectives and creativity in particular for younger population, too young to be paralysed and inactive because ot the designated mental disease. Also to inform the public about importance of mental health before formal actions are taken. With this activities we would like to present the organisation as non harmful to community and in particular to influence on reducing the stigma which in many cases follows the human beign after institutional treatment · Organisation form: independent nonprofit nongovernmental organisation of users of psychiatry, supporters and honor members. Established by users of psychiatry. Only they have the right of deciding within the organisation · Members: ex-users, mentally ill persons, support members, honour members · Publications: web site www.drustvo-mostovi.org, magazine Most (Bridge) in preparation · Status of workers: Students-volunteers, ex-users or mentally ill persons, other volunteers · Funding: Donation, Ministry of labour, family and social affairs, city community Ljubljana · No decision to accept money from the pharmaceutical industry if offered until now · Contact: Društvo Mostovi, Faculty of social work, Topniška 31, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Tel. +386 1 2809269, Fax +386 1 2809270, E-mail nika.cigoj[at]fsd.uni-lj.si

• 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 · Contact: Mir Sreče, Jelovkova 11d, SL-1000 LJUBLJANA, Tel. / Fax +386 1 429 23 45, E-Mail igor.uhan[at]guest.arnes.si

• * 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, E-Mail paradoks1[at]siol.net. English Information

• * OZARA, Ljubljanska ulica 9, 2000 MARIBOR, Tel. +386 2 3300444, Fax: +386 2 3300447, E-Mail: info[at]ozara.org, web site www.ozara.org

• * Paradoks, Paradoks is in Slovenia a mental health organisation which is established and run only by users and exusers of psychiatry · Contact: Paradoks, Vrhovci, c, XVII. št.40, SL-1000 LJUBLJANA , Tel. +386 1 4228561, Fax +386 1 4228563, E-Mail paradoks1[at]siol.net (other address: Paradoks, Postojnska 12A, 1000 SL-LJUBLJANA, Tel. +386 61 1259829)

• * 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: 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 · Publications: Web site www.sent.si · Contact: ŠENT, Cigaletova ulica 5, 1000 LJUBLJANA, Tel. +386 1 23 078 30, Faks +386 1 2307838, E-Mail: info[at]sent-si.org

• * 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.Contact: VEZI, Storje 26, SL-6210 SEZANA, Tel. / Fax +386 5 7685200, E-Mail drustvo.vezi[at]siol.net