Question

How can we find new and more regular point of support for social isolated clients, after finishing the interventions of the mobile team?

Problem description

We are often dealing with socially isolated persons.  After our interventions, a possible referral can follow, but persons remain without much social contacts or leisure.  In Ghent, some creative projects can be found, and these were specifically created for (former) psychiatric patients.  Regular projects are less accessible for this target group

Impact - effect

De-stigmatisation in the fields of hobbies and leisure is not yet an evidence in our region.  Psychiatric and former psychiatric patients can go to services and projects specifically and only created for them, but the step towards the regular projects is still a big one.  This means that patients stay in a psychiatric environment, while sharing experiences with other creative souls who didn’t come into contact with psychiatry, would also be fruitful

To do

In Lille, a distinguished mobile team deals with the coordination of local service centres, cultural activities, art projects.  This team leads (ex-) patients to projects, even in organisations that have nothing to do with psychiatry.  In this way, artistic people can meet.  Patients could be activated by making, presenting, viewing, listening and experiencing expressions.  We might consider as well to create an overarching single point of contact in Ghent to make creative projects available and accessible for our clients. After all, one can find in Ghent already several projects where art is used as a medium to facilitate contact, revalidation, self-realisation.  These projects are specific addressed to (former) psychiatric patients.  In Lille, de-stigmatisation is put in front in engaging patients in creative projects that are accessible for artistic people (with or without a psychiatric history).

Theme

Continuing care pathway

Topic

Actors involved (services, professionals), “who”

Reference -  contact

Hélène Soete

Mobile team

2A

Project

Gent-Eeklo (PAKT)

Intership abroad - place

Lille

Date

November 2013