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Groups of (ex-)users and survivors of
psychiatry (and other addresses) in Ukraine
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Otrazhennye
Miry (Reflected Worlds) · Publications: web site www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/ukraine.html#miry
· Contact: Otrazhennye Miry, c/o Ukrainian Psychiatric
Foundation, Vul. Frunze 103-A, KYIV 254655, Tel. +380 44 4684185,
Fax +380 44 4350271, +380 44 4637475, eMail uuupa@upa.freenet.kiev.ua
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Podderzhka
(Support) · Publications: web site www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/ukraine.html#podderzhka
· Contact: Podderzhka, 58-A Rokosovskogo St, kv. 60, CHERNIGOV,
Tel. +380 4622 42379
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* Soyuz
Druzey – Friends' Union . Agenstvo Spryiannia Socialnomu
Rosvytku (Social Development Support Agency) with Soyuz Druzey
(Friends' Union), an NGO for people with mental health problems,
is part of Social Development Support Agency (SDSA), the major
purpose of which is to support civil society development through
the improvement of the social protection system; to contribute
to the creation of civil society through providing social services
and co-ordinating the efforts of the state with NGOs in social
areas, especially in mental health. One of our main priorities
is to work with users and ex-users of mental health services.
Special emphasis is placed on supporting the creation of self-help
groups and community centres for people with mental health problems.
We are open for users and ex-users, who want to communicate
with other people with mental health problems. We try to create
a supportive and secure space for communication and development
for these people, their family members and professionals in
this sphere, and also provide communal work methods and psychological
aid. We try to help users to improve their social position,
standard of living, inner state and interpersonal relations.
In recent months SDSA, in addition to all its previous activities,
has been carrying out two new projects: The development of an
employment project for members of Friends Union, the first of
its kind in Ukraine. Advocacy of benefits reform. We have also
taken part in a number of international conferences, workshops
and seminars; prepared issues of our magazine; created a video-film
and produced a radio programme about our Centre · Publications:
web site www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/ukraine.html#agenstvo ·
Contact: Agenstvo Spryiannia Socialnomu Rosvytku, PO Box 111,
KYIV 01010, Tel. +380 44 2166722, +380 44 4668092, Fax +380
44 2166791, eMail
SDSA@diasys.kiev.ua
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* VITa
Charitable Foundation: VITa aims to provide help, support
and various services for the users and ex-users of mental health
services, methodological and informational support, and aid
in the protection of social and economic rights of the users.
In relation to users and ex-users, our organisation's policy
is: To reduce stigma in society and to work together with mass
media in order to fight stereotypes about the users; To protect
the social and economic rights of the users; To unite users
and their relatives into self-help groups; To encourage professionals
to take part in the organisation of educational and self-help
programs; To disseminate information to users as widely as possible;
To find, develop and implement new types of activity that can
help users' integration and adaptation; To establish dialogue
with representatives of official institutions; To contribute
to the worldwide study, implementation and development of methods
of tackling the problems of users of mental health services
· Publications: web site www.hamlet-trust.org.uk/ukraine.html#vcf
· Contact: VITa, ap.122, 3/15, Baggoutovskaya str., KYIV
04050, Tel. +380 44 2162743, Fax +380 44 2162743, eMail tatjana@vita.kiev.ua
(other address: Vita, 8 Vorovsky, str. apt 34, KIEV 254 053)
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