Brief description | Improve the quality of life of mental health patients through the promotion of a new model of psychiatric assistance as well as a new model of resocialisation of mental health patients in their own society and community and in a cross-border environment. |
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Region | Intra Western Balkan borders |
Countries | Serbia (SRB) – Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) |
Location | SRB: Kolubarski District, City of Valjevo BiH: Nort East Region – Canton of Tuzla, City of Tuzla |
Type of project partners | Non-governmental organisations (international/national NGOs) Public bodies/institutions |
Size (total budget including EU grants) | € 200,000 to € 500,000 |
Main themes | Employment, labour mobility and social inclusion |
Keywords (Types of Activities) | Education and training Research and studies Publications, websites, databases Marketing, promotional activities, awareness campaigns |
Keywords (Aspects of Good Practice) | Genuine cross-border dimension Genuine cross-border impact Innovative Efficient Good dissemination Good sustainability |
Background and Objectives | The aim of the UPSTREAM project (UP.S.TREA.M. – UPdate of Socializing and TREAtment in Mental health) was to introduce new approaches to mental health patients’ handling and care in order to minimise the individual and social consequences of devastation of societies in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially for people with severe mentally diseases.
Promoting a new approach for improving quality of mental health services, the project introduced recent and consolidated psychiatric treatment and methodologies of resocialisation for mental health patients into the cross-border social conditions of SRB and BiH still in a transition phase after the social and general disruptions created by the traumatic period of 1992-1999 in the region. |
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Main activities | The main activities of the project were, as follows:
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Main results | The general result of the UPSTREAM project can be summarised as the development of new and more efficient mental health systems in SRB and BiH.
The main specific results were:
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Aspects of good practice | The project has been very strong in the whole range of aspects of good practice, including innovation, dissemination, cross-border impact and sustainability.
It is particularly noteworthy that UPSTREAM activities have continued after the completion of the project and follow-up activities have been instigated, ensuring long-term benefits. More specifically: The cross-border cooperation started with the UPSTREAM project between the two mental health systems in Valjevo and Tuzla is continuing after the end of the EU support. It has been underlined that all of these issues are sustainable also from the financial point of view, because the project promoted new approaches to mental health care that are not more expensive than the former ones, but they consist of a better use of the financial resources already available at public level. |
Start and completion dates: | 01.12.2010 – 31.03.2012 |
More information | http://srb-bih.org/ |
Partner | SRB: Fondazione Caritas Italiana, Daniele Bombardi, danielebombardi@gmail.com, www.caritasitaliana.it |
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Partner | Caritas Valjevo, caritasva@open.telekom.rs |