Pro mente austria

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Pro mente austria ( lat. Pro mente = for the soul / for the spirit ) is the Austrian umbrella association of associations and societies for mental and social health. It currently comprises twenty-two separate and independent member organizations. The main goals are to promote mentally ill people and improve their position in society in accordance with the UN Convention on Human Rights . The establishment and operation of psychosocial structures (counseling, care, living) is of particular importance, with all member organizations looking after around 50,000 people from around 2,600 employees (as of 2011).

Associations and societies

Pro mente Vienna

the Society for Mental and Social Health was founded in Vienna in 1965. pro mente Vienna has offers for people with mental illnesses in the areas of living, work and leisure. pro mente Vienna supports self-help oriented project work the pro mente academy also has a location in Vienna. The Vienna Society is entitled to use the Austrian seal of approval for donations .

Pro mente reha

offers medical psychiatric rehabilitation for adults with mental impairments, from Austria.

Pro mente Carinthia

Association Pro mente kärnten - Society for Mental and Social Health was founded in 1979 as "pro mente infirmis" and maintains a. a. Day centers in Klagenfurt , Spittal , Wolfsberg ; a social psychiatric center in Spittal; a psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic; Shared flats for assisted living; a psychiatric emergency and crisis service; Psychiatric follow-up care; a transition home; and a facility for forensic rehabilitation in Liebenfels .

Vocational training (up to 15 months) for service, administrative and commercial professions was set up for professional integration. In addition, work training is offered in Hermagor , Klagenfurt, Spittal, Villach and Wolfsberg. The work projects carried out include a. Garden service, environmental island cleaning, laundry, sewing and ironing service, carpentry, copy shop, cleaning.

Pro mente Upper Austria

pro mente Oberösterreich - Society for Mental and Social Health has been providing psychosocial care in Upper Austria since the 1960s . (As of 2011) around 30,000 people are cared for in around 150 facilities by 1,300 employees, whereby the range of psychosocial care and other services is available. a. Psychosocial counseling with twenty-two counseling centers; a psychosocial emergency service; a crisis intervention center. There are also several clubhouses, leisure & communication, youth care, lay aid, medical rehabilitation , addiction counseling centers and inpatient long-term therapies , day structures and residential facilities in several cities, including support for senile dementia . The Institute for Addiction Prevention is linked to the projects "pro mente job" (individual training), "pro mente plus" (forensic outpatient clinic and forensic housing projects), "pro mente reha" (for mental rehabilitation), the "pro mente Akademie GesmbH" and the publisher "edition pro mente".

For professional integration, u. a. Job assistance to support the search for or the psychological coping with work for a maximum of 12 months in Linz , Braunau am Inn , Gmunden , Schärding , Steyr , Vöcklabruck , Wels . There are also work training centers in Linz, Asten , Kirchdorf an der Krems , Altenfelden , Steyr, Vöcklabruck, where work is carried out in workshops in the fields of wood, kitchen, books, art, gardening, printing, carpet weaving and catering. In addition, cafeterias are maintained in retirement homes.

Pro mente Salzburg

Pro mente salzburg - acc. Association for psychological and social rehabilitation was founded in 1974 and looks after around 2000 people. The Salzburg association includes the "non-profit society for mental and social rehabilitation", which operates a work training center (ATZ) in Wals-Siezenheim . The work areas include office, wood, textiles, production, the duration of the measure being twelve months. Furthermore, cafes; Residential facilities for therapeutic or assisted living; Employment projects for flexible rehabilitation; Twelve months of work training for young people (“Jumber”) with psychiatric impairments; an outpatient crisis intervention and all-day telephone hotline; outpatient residential care; operated a children's soul aid for mentally ill children.

Another part of pro mente salzburg is the “non-profit society for work rehabilitation”, which u. a. offers job assistance to deal with professional problems or to re-enter the world of work with a program for the deaf . It also includes an integration assistant for young people for work and training, and integrative work training in Salzburg , Pongau and Pinzgau , where soapstone work , a washing and ironing service and a children's goods exchange are offered.

Pro mente styria

Since 1989 pro mente steiermark has been caring for people with mental illnesses and psychosocial problems throughout Styria. 90 projects (as of 2016) offer help in the following areas: vocational rehabilitation (work and vocational training), work assistance, day-structuring employment, assisted living, mobile social-psychiatric care, forensic transitional houses, diagnostics, prevention, sport and exercise, advice on depression, burnout and mental health in the workplace.

For the re-entry into working life, pro mente steiermark offers one-year work and professional training courses in Bruck an der Mur, Feldbach, Fohnsdorf, Fürstenfeld, Graz, Hartberg, Kapfenberg, Köflach, Krieglach, Leoben, Liezen and Weiz. People with mental health problems train their professional, organizational and social skills here; Work areas include a. Bookbinding, gardening, bicycle repair, kitchen, tailoring or carpentry. Further offers in vocational rehabilitation are one-month diagnostics, vocational guidance (information about one's own work ability and professional competence) and work assistance for adults and young people (help in obtaining or securing a job). There are also low-threshold employment opportunities.

In the area of ​​social rehabilitation, pro mente steiermark maintains five social psychiatric day structures in Graz, Hartberg and Kapfenberg. Here, those affected train practical and social skills and learn to structure their daily routine with meaningful activities. The part-time assisted living facilities are for people who do not need permanent inpatient care, but are not yet able to live without regular care. There is also mobile social psychiatric care in the districts of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag, Deutschlandsberg, Graz, Hartberg-Fürstenfeld, Leoben and Liezen.

Society for Mental Health -pro mente Tirol

The Society for Mental Health - pro mente tirol offers rehabilitation and care to people who suffer from impairments and disabilities due to a mental illness. The clients should be given the opportunity to recover from their mental illness, to cope with the consequences of the illness, to improve their living conditions independently and to develop new life prospects.

The rehabilitation offers and assistance are available to people with mental illnesses and mental impairments and include:

Outpatient offers : clarification, outpatient social psychiatric advice - treatment - care - accompaniment, crisis intervention, case management, outpatient service, mediation of other services, prevention

Organization of the day : stabilization, orientation, clarification, basic rehabilitation, making contacts, employment, social participation, leisure activities

Housing support : self-sufficiency, coping with everyday life, communication, individual and special forms of living

Work and training : professional orientation, work and professional training, on-the-job training, professional integration, professional support, integration company

In order to enable easy accessibility, staying in the familiar environment and social participation, centers were set up in seven Tyrolean districts in Imst , Innsbruck , Kufstein , Landeck , Lienz , Reutte and Schwaz .

Since the 1980s, the Society for Mental Health - pro mente tirol has been involved in reforming psychiatric care in Tyrol and Austria. In addition, the association sees it as its task to promote the mental health of the Tyrolean population. Among other things, the Society for Mental Health - pro mente tirol participates in projects such as the European Alliance Against Depression - EAAD schAUGAUFDI, EQUAL.

Pro mente Vorarlberg

pro mente Vorarlberg accompanies people with mental illnesses: on an outpatient basis in the advice centers in Bregenz, Dornbirn, Feldkirch as well as in the child and adolescent psychiatric advice centers in Dornbirn and Nenzing, in day care centers, shared apartments and workshops. The pro mente Vorarlberg GmbH offers holistic support for those affected on behalf of the state of Vorarlberg. The team includes specialists from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatric health and nursing care, social work, occupational and creative therapy. The work is interdisciplinary and networked. Depending on the situation, family, relatives or friends are included. In this way, individual life situations and needs can be taken into account. In addition to acute treatment, people with a mental illness often need intensive care in their private environment. If necessary, pro mente Vorarlberg can help with everyday problems, legal questions, looking for an apartment or a job.

Pro mente burgenland - Society for mental and social health based in Eisenstadt is working on the expansion of psychosocial care structures and tries to improve the cooperation between the facilities in Burgenland. The rehabilitation and care of mentally impaired people is carried out with the help of social support: B. with a day center and a therapeutic rehabilitation dormitory in Lackenbach , and assisted living in Lackenbach and Kohfidisch .

The Psychosocial Service (PSD) Burgenland has existed since 1949 and has counseling centers in Eisenstadt, Güssing , Jennersdorf , Mattersburg , Neusiedl am See and Oberwart . There is also an outpatient clinic in Oberpullendorf , a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Oberwart, a curative education center in Rust , and a center for child and adolescent psychiatry in Eisenstadt. In some cases, psychosocial care, medical treatment, psychotherapy, social work, drugs and addiction counseling, and supervised individual living are carried out.

The working group for preventive and social medicine (aks) endeavors to maintain and improve health in Vorarlberg. He maintains branch offices for outpatient neurological rehabilitation in Bregenz, Bürs , Dornbirn, Egg , Götzis and social psychiatric services in Bludenz , Dornbirn, Egg, Feldkirch, Götzis. An employment workshop is also maintained in Götzis.

The Arcus social network in the Mühlviertel tries to find employment opportunities and supported housing (in Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis , Kollerschlag , Neufelden , Neustift im Mühlkreis , Putzleinsdorf , Rohrbach , Sarleinsbach ) for disabled people.

The ARGE Sozialdienst Mostviertel is primarily active in the area of ​​assisted living, with residential facilities being maintained in the districts of Amstetten , Melk , Scheibbs .

The Society for the Promotion of Mental Health (GFSG) in Styria offers therapies and counseling for people with mental illnesses and maintains several psychosocial centers and branch offices in Graz, Hartberg, Leibnitz , Pöllau , Vorau , Neudau , Friedberg . Therapy centers for children, adolescents and the elderly are also available in some cases.

The Start association (Sozialtherapeutische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tirol) maintains a day center in Innsbruck to advise people in psychological crises, or in which a day structure is also offered. There is also a job training company and professional training for young people.

The OPUS therapy workshop of the Association for the Creation of Alternative Employment Opportunities for the Mentally Ill is a paper and wood processing workshop in Vienna that employs people suffering from psychosis . The workers receive psychological support.

HPE Austria (help for relatives and friends of mentally ill people) looks after the interests of relatives and friends of mentally ill people and advises them in all Austrian federal states.

Live pro humanis. help. is a non-profit association in Graz that offers social support for disabled people to help them cope with their problems.

The Austrian Society for Community Psychiatry is the publisher of the magazine "gemeindenahe psychiatrie", which deals with social psychiatric topics.

Web links

Website pro mente austria

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian seal of approval for donations - pro mente Vienna . Retrieved April 25, 2015.