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  • Austria - Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Vienna
  • Belgium - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven
  • Bulgaria - Global Initiative on Psychiatry, Sofia
  • Czech Republic - Centre for Mental Health Care Development, Prague
  • Finland - National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki
  • Germany - Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf
  • Greece - University Mental Health Research Institute, Athens
  • Hungary - Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC), Budapest
  • Italy - University of Verona, Verona
  • Lithuania - University of Vilnius, Vilnius
  • Netherlands - Stichting Kenniscentrum Phrenos, Amsterdam
  • Romania - Romanian Association of Community Psychiatry, Bucharest
  • Slovakia - Integra o.z., Michalovce
  • Turkey - Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul
  • United Kingdom - King's College London, London
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Integra - Association for Mental Health, Michalovce, SK

Integra has rich experiences in mental health care, antistigma work and mental health promotion in Michalovce and other regions of Slovakia.

During the last 14 years Integra has contributed strongly to the reintegration of people with mental health problems into society and to the shift from hospital to community mental health care. A network of community mental health services has been created in the model standard region of Michalovce.

Mission Statement

Our vision is to provide a system of mental health care that promotes mental health, prevents mental illness, frees people with mental disorders from social exclusion and paternalism, enables their integration into the community and prevents hospitalization whenever possible.

Integra's services include 4 community services for the people with severe mental health problems: psychosocial rehabilitation centre, sheltered living, sheltered work, case management and outpatient care.

Team Members

• Pětr Nawka, MD, Psychiatrist, Chair
Since November 1994 Chair of the Association of Mental Health Integra
Since October 2000 Chair of the Slovak Antistigma-programme of World Psychiatric Association "Schizophrenia - Open the Doors"
Since 2004 Member of the Board of Mental Health Europe
Since October 2006 Committee of experts on developing a Council of Europe mental health reference tool (SP-MNH); Council of Europe


• Janka Hurová, Project manager, Vice-Chair
The whole managing of projects (their creating, economy, marketing and evaluating); Managing of professional meetings, trainings, workshops and conferencies on local, national and international level; MATRA project coordinator ("Transformation to an integrated system of mental health care") and initiator of the patient advocacy in Psychiatric hospital in Michalovce, currently working in the school project called "Crazy? So what!" focusing on promotion and prevention in cooperation with Germany and The Czech Republic.

Contact

Integra, o. z. - Association for Mental Health
Pri mlyne 1430, P. O. Box 11
07101 Michalovce
SLOVAKIA
Phone: +421 56 6421714
Fax: +421 56 6421714
Email: jankahurova(at)zoznam.sk
www.integradz.sk