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Mental Health Promotion in Northern Ireland CATEGORY 5 Project name Contact name Address Promoting Mental Health – Patient Group within Day Hospital Una Donnelly/Eileen McKnight Alexander Gardens Day Hospital Old Sea House 603 Antrim Road Belfast BT15 Telephone number 01232 773311 Brief description of project Objectives The overall aim of the Mental Health Group is to give patients a positive sense of wellbeing and an underlying belief in their own and other’s dignity and self worth. The Mental Health Group is held once a week for one and a half hours. It is an open group with an attendance of around 10-15 clients. Various topics are discussed each week ranging from substance and alcohol misuse to stress, anxiety, healthy lifestyles, impact of mental illness on people’s lives and treatments. Medication education is also carried out. • Group members will be able to outline the factors that contribute towards maintaining optimum mental health. • Group members will recognise possible reasons for people becoming mentally unwell. • Group members will understand the steps that are necessary to look after their own mental health. Outcomes: Actual • Groups are currently underway. 126
Mental Health Promotion in Northern Ireland CATEGORY 6 Programmes related to individuals or groups with an identified severe mental health or behavioural problem or a diagnosed mental illness or their carers. Project name Contact name Address Rehability Margaret McCormick, Co-ordinator Rehability Community Care 7/8 Norfolk Court Rathenraw Antrim BT41 2SF Telephone number 01849 428264 Brief description of project Objective Outcomes: Evaluation In 1987, three members of the rehabilitation team (social worker, community psychiatric nurse and occupational therapist) came together to form a voluntary group to address the problem of social isolation outside hospital by providing opportunities for a social life for former patients. Rehability was established as an innovative scheme which recognised the inherent advantages and potential of the ‘Care in the Community’ initiative. It is an Antrim-based voluntary organisation which aims to provide social and recreational activities for those people who in the past have been hospitalised due to a diagnosis of mental illness, but are now residing in the community. Rehability is open seven nights a week from 7.00pm – 10.00pm. Each evening members are free to call in for coffee and conversation and/or make use of those recreational facilities available in the Centre. There is also an annual holiday programme not only benefiting those members who take part but also providing respite for the relatives who assume the role of carer throughout the rest of the year. Report available. 127
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