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Mental Health Initiatives
Mental Health Initiatives seeks to ensure that people with mental disabilities (mental health problems and/or intellectual disabilities) are able to live as equal citizens in the community and to participate in society with full respect for their human rights. MHI works in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (CEE/fSU).
Mental Health Initiatives promotes the social inclusion of people with mental disabilities by supporting the development of community-based alternatives to institutionalization and by actively engaging in policy based advocacy.
Mental Health Initiatives is both a grant making and an operational program (administered directly by the Foundation)
In 2010 the program:
- will offer support for the deinstitutionalization process and the development of alternative community-based services
Implementation of the Community for All Moldova project will be continued. The project is implemented in partnership with the Open Society Institute’s Mental Health Initiatives, Keystone Human Services International USA/ Keystone Human Services International Moldova Association, Ministry of Social Protection, Family and Child and Hope and Homes for Children, UK, to implement together The Community for All Initiative. The project goal is to advance the rights and promote the social inclusion of people with disabilities by developing comprehensive community-based services that meet the varying needs of people with disabilities and their families/caregivers. The project lasts 5 years.
- will continue to promote the social inclusion of children with disabilities by supporting the established services in early intervention and inclusive education as alternatives to institutional care.
- will offer support for the development of early intervention in the Republic of Moldova, including replication and dissemination of existing services in the country
- increase the partners capacities for service provision, advocacy and policy development directed towards the social inclusion of persons with disabilities
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