We support women with mental health problems

Hello We are a NGO "Asociación Cooperadora del Hospital José A Esteves
We are an NGO that supports the Public and specialized Mental Health Hospital José A. Esteves depending on MOH Buenos Aires Province.
We provide women, with mental disorders, hospitalization and mental care benefits.
Our institution has the main goal, based on professional and non professional personal, to help these women to reinsert as well as rehabilitate them into society. For this purpose, our institution has developed a rehabilitation program called P.R.E.A (Rehabilitation and outside hospitalization based in Mental Health)
This program was landed for the first time in the year 2000 and has been working for 13 years for the benefit of our patients. Basically it was created with the intention of giving back these women some of the rights they have lost.
Beside of being abandoned by society and their families, these women are over and over again neglected. They not only have to deal with a mental illness but to the fact of being averted from their social-affective environment, making it more difficult to be inserted in society again.
Although some of the pathologies are permanent, it does not necessary mean the patient has to be hospitalized.
That conventional psychiatric care fail to achieve the objectives consistent with community care, decentralized, participatory, integrated, continuous and preventive.
The psychiatric hospital baulks the achievement of the above objectives by isolating the sick from their environment, generating greater social disability, creating unfavorable conditions that threaten human rights and civil rights of patients
After 13 years of developing this program, we believe it that has became an effective tool against discrimination against women. To give some example at present P.R.E.A , works with 84 women, of which 64 are now rehabilitated and ten of them are currently living with their partners meanwhile others live in 15 houses rented for the purposes of the program.
Most important is to mention that some of these women have been hospitalized 35 years and others have spent their entire lives in institutions until they leave through the program.
From all patients rehabilitated by PREA, 51% had suffered several readmissions prior to their inclusion in the program, reaching in some cases up to 11 readmissions.
After being rehabilitated with this program, only 9% of users required some hospitalization.

Remaining 91% have suffered some crisis situations having been assisted in their home until it stopped, avoiding the anxiety of returning to the psychiatric hospital.
Our program has had a great impact on society including mass media. For your information we provide some links
http://www.conectate.gob.ar/educar-portal-video-web/module/detalleRecurs...

We have been included in the CIVICUS network of social organizations in the campaign you can be the change
http://www.youcanbethechange.com/stories/womens-rights/fighting-for-wome...

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