The Mental Health Community Center

... Citizenship Health !“A little bit of possible, otherwise I

choke!” (Gilles Deleuze)

A Nise da Silveira’s Institute Program / The Municipal Health

Secretary / The Rio de Janeiro City Hall Prefecture

History• The Mental Health Community Center Program, located

in a suburb of Rio, was conceived as a project and initially presented in June, 30th, 1992 at old The Pedro II Psychiatric Center Second Congress, to be implemented in empty spaces we had back then due to institutions’ assistance reforms, changing from hospitalization to a more globalized profile of dealing with mental illness.

• It is located in a 10.000 m2 of The Odillon Galloti’s Hospital Unit, reformed through a series of community gatherings.

Goals

• To help deconstruct mental illness’ myths in a

broad community.• To favor social control in

the mental health field • To value psychiatric

public service with an anti-asylum profile

• To help built a network of projects against social

exclusion

Activities

The Mental Health Community Center Program“Citizenship Health"

A center for sharing experiences in the mental health fieldProfile: Anti-asylum and a self-sustainable management

Recreational, Leasureand Sports Activities

Social-cultural, Health Education and Courses Partners’ Projects’ activities

The Arts’ Workshop

The Sports’ Activities - Capoeira

The Mental Health Community Center Projects

The Community Center Coordination

V.I.D.A.S. / LIVESClients: Persons with special

needs

FEIRA / Arts & CraftsClients: Patients and ex-patients

(Bazar)

The Art WorkshopClients: Patients and ex-patients

Some pictures from the past Roots of Psychiatric

Roots of Psychiatry

Roots of Psychiatry

The Mental Health Community Center Projects

The Community Center Coordination

The Leasure Club Clients: Patients and ex-patients

Library ToysClients: Patients and community

The Sport WorkshopClients: Patients, Partners

and Community

The Third Age Club

The Barber’s Shop The Social Colaborators

The Mental Health Community Center Projects

Community Center Coordination

Passargada Repúblic Temporáry Shelter for ex-clients

Memory ProjectPsychiatry Memorabilia Health Education Project

Video in the Hall

The ‘Passargada’ Shelter

Let’s Party with the Community

The Mental Health Community Center Projects

The Community Center Coordination

Casa do SolCooking activities with the clients

Tlhird Age ClubSocial Cultural for clients and Community at large

Social ColaboratorsBarber Shop, Cantine,

with Institutionalized Clients

Let’s put some color in Psychiatry

Wellcome to The Mental Health Community Center

Program

Some alternative Projects• Fighting illiteracy: “To read the World”• Socius Project – Leasure Club • “Koisadidoido” Theater Company • Volunteers Program • Job Qualification • Educational Courses for adults• Revolution FM – “The Radio which is crazy about

you” – Networking health through the radio • Common Sense University • Cultural Events - “Crazy a lot”

Partners’ Projects• Arts and School Club / The Rio Education Secretary • Cemasi Gonzaguinha – a shelter for street kids / S.M.D.S.• DRT – doccuments for working / Min. do Trabalho.• The Allan Kardec Group – studying spiritualism doctrine • The Humanistic Movement – The Computer School • Camarista Meier Citizen Association – Environmental projects• The Atalaia Scouts Group• The Alcooholic Anonymous Group • The Johrei Center • The Network of People living with SIDA and HIV• Reiki and Cromotherapy Projects• The Hope Project for HIV positive kids • Revolução FM – a partnership with INDECS

Good news – Revolution FM is on the air !

Good news – Psychiatry Center open doors to community !

The Health is going Crazy

An award for our efforts

Other Partnerships to be consolidated

• The Antonin Artaud Theater of ex-patients • The Franco Basaglia Institute /SOS

Psychiatric Consumers• The Revolution FM and The Pinel TV• The Pupeteers• The Digital Inclusion Center • The ECCO – NGO which bring partners

together

Organizations supporting The Mental Health C. Center

• ASHOKA – Innovators for the Public• VERY SPECIAL ARTS / Brasil • International Network against Social Exclusion • The UNIDA Network / The UNI Projects• The Popular Health Educators• CDI / Democracy in Digital World

Lock up rooms were now pictures of the past

Final Remarks• The Nise da Silveira’s Community Center and its mission

of putting together a network of social support against the social exclusion of psychiatric patients, reinvents health when proposes the deconstruction of asylum strategies, reorienting practices that for a long period of time have contributed a lot for segregating a some of our population

• Our projects, in partnership with the organized civil society, strengthen social control of consumers and helps them to overcome contemporary individualism, changing what is “given” into something “acquired”, “shared”, colectivelly socially constructed !

• The Mental Health Community Center Program... For twelve years helping citizenship health in Rio de Janeiro city !!!

Wellcome to The Mental Health Community Center

Program