DISABILITY Services
Society and economics influence one another. While society evolves and sees the need to value, hoard and cost resources for status reasons, the consequential inequalities between the ‘haves’ and ‘don’t-haves’ create new conditions of instability whose failure to address, further create the different forms of disability simultaneously –escalating ignorance, poor physical, mental and heightened levels of instability within the socioeconomically lowly communities.
Disability is known to be more mental than physical as a well adapting mental faculty has the means to overcome challenges at physical level. Disability is relative and minimal bit of it may be motivating rather than socioeconomically challenging.
"Poor socioeconomic conditions are the greatest causes and predictors of disability, preventable illnesses and early deaths."
-Jacob Waiswa
Pilot project for the mentally and physically challenged
Purpose:
The purpose of this project to promote mental health seeking behaviours of mentally challenged members of the community through family/homebased interventions in order to increase access to mental health services and support mental adjustment, recovery, reduce vulnerability and achieve sustainable mental wellbeing.
Main Activities:
-Creating awareness
-Conducting research to know existing mental health problems and inform stakeholders
-Identify partners to support activities
-Identify households that need mental health services
-Conduct mental health assessments for respective households
-Develop interventions for respective households
-Conduct training for field workers
-Allocate resources and coordinate management of interventions
-Daily-weekly-monthly and annual monitoring and evaluations by field staff and organisations
-Share reports with stakeholders and seek their input in next phases of interventions
Specific Actions
-Family visits for general conversations to understand psychological concerns of respective family members and how they affect entire family
-Identify and restore family structures that are psychopathological
-Discuss new old and new family structures with first respective family members and later common roles and responsibilities towards new healing family structures.
-Monitor adaptations to new family structures for 6 to 12 months
-Align and strength community and institutional linkages mentally well families.
-Reconcile family members with missed growth and development stages
-Establish reward systems from within family to keep it developing
-Enact situations to elicit family based solutions under conditions of difficulty
-Supervise daily affirmations to new
-Identify and incorporate nutrients for mental strength
-Identify and incorporate physical exercises for mental and physical strength
-Identify common family roles and responsibilities into new family mental health structure.
Expected results
-Attain an understanding of each family member’s mental health and sources of mental and shared knowledge of how each family member should be handled to achieve individual mental development and wellbeing
-Discard of old relationship treatment patterns that were maladaptive
-Adoption of new relationship patterns that support mental wellbeing of respective family members.
-Realise individual roles and responsibilities for respective family members towards the mental wellbeing of the entire family unit.
-Assertion of each ones identity in the new roles and responsibilities
-Development of individual goals away from environment for personal fulfilment
- Ensure collective support for each other’s new roles to be practiced over time
-Knowledge of supportive links outside family setting that can be sought to support new family mental health structure
-Motivation to seek support both from within and outside family structure to support new family mental health view
-Motivation to take steps towards ones emotional, physical, social and spiritual needs with implication to mental wellbeing
Changes overtime
Discernment abilities of each family member to feed into the mental wellbeing of the family unit.
Happy family life that reinforces healthier family relationships
Development of strong family character that is stronger against external shocks
Better problem-solving mechanism with openness and input of respective family members
Development of appropriate goals for better life outside family(school, work and social relationships)
Greater concentration levels at work
Greater productivity and rewards (academic and occupational)
Better and supportive relations outside family life
Greater positive sense of self and togetherness as family (positive identify)
Complementary and supplementary support to each family members who need it for the greater family life
Easy assimilation of trauma and mental healing in future in current and future trauma encounters.
Addressing widespread socioeconomic conditions which impact most on individuals and their families, with emphasis on families that have been hit most, through reliefs such as;
- Reading materials,
- Breakfast to starving women and children,
- Clean water
- Infections prevention kits
- Toilet facilities
- Pads for girls
- Vocation skills training
- Clothes
- Medicine
- Sanitation facilities
- Longterm rehabilitation of those facing addiction to alcohol and other drugs
- Demystify maladaptive religious and cultural dogmas as well as physio/yoga for the physically challenges yet impacting mental wellness.
- Agroforestry (fruit trees)
- Subsistence agriculture for families without food
- Commercial agriculture for livelihood development of families in need
Environmental impacts or benefits the project might have:
- Inaccessibility to safe and clean water, proper food diet and proper household incomes are the greatest challenges to families affected by mental problems, which in many respects are influenced by climate change. Therefore initiatives to preserve the environment and restore degraded cover are one significant motivation for the project. Demonstrations shall be established and seedlings given at affordable price for value addition to this particular activity, in order for families to be actively responsible to the environment by way of agroforestry and fruit tree growing that support efforts to promote food security and agriculture related employment for the majority of women and youths. And institute and promote policy of planting 30 trees for every one cut down.
HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED
As client
As volunteer
As service activity sponsor
As client sponsor
As fundraiser
As donor/funder
As ambassador
As development partner
As friend
Visit us
Visit our blog www.integratedmhi.blogspot.ug
Visit our facebook page: www.facebook.com/integratedmentalhealthinitiative
HOW YOU CAN REACH US
Telephone: +256774336277 or +256752542504
Email: waiswajacobo@yahoo.co.uk or dishma.imhs@gmail.com
Society and economics influence one another. While society evolves and sees the need to value, hoard and cost resources for status reasons, the consequential inequalities between the ‘haves’ and ‘don’t-haves’ create new conditions of instability whose failure to address, further create the different forms of disability simultaneously –escalating ignorance, poor physical, mental and heightened levels of instability within the socioeconomically lowly communities.
Disability is known to be more mental than physical as a well adapting mental faculty has the means to overcome challenges at physical level. Disability is relative and minimal bit of it may be motivating rather than socioeconomically challenging.
"Poor socioeconomic conditions are the greatest causes and predictors of disability, preventable illnesses and early deaths."
-Jacob Waiswa
Pilot project for the mentally and physically challenged
Purpose:
The purpose of this project to promote mental health seeking behaviours of mentally challenged members of the community through family/homebased interventions in order to increase access to mental health services and support mental adjustment, recovery, reduce vulnerability and achieve sustainable mental wellbeing.
Main Activities:
-Creating awareness
-Conducting research to know existing mental health problems and inform stakeholders
-Identify partners to support activities
-Identify households that need mental health services
-Conduct mental health assessments for respective households
-Develop interventions for respective households
-Conduct training for field workers
-Allocate resources and coordinate management of interventions
-Daily-weekly-monthly and annual monitoring and evaluations by field staff and organisations
-Share reports with stakeholders and seek their input in next phases of interventions
Specific Actions
-Family visits for general conversations to understand psychological concerns of respective family members and how they affect entire family
-Identify and restore family structures that are psychopathological
-Discuss new old and new family structures with first respective family members and later common roles and responsibilities towards new healing family structures.
-Monitor adaptations to new family structures for 6 to 12 months
-Align and strength community and institutional linkages mentally well families.
-Reconcile family members with missed growth and development stages
-Establish reward systems from within family to keep it developing
-Enact situations to elicit family based solutions under conditions of difficulty
-Supervise daily affirmations to new
-Identify and incorporate nutrients for mental strength
-Identify and incorporate physical exercises for mental and physical strength
-Identify common family roles and responsibilities into new family mental health structure.
Expected results
-Attain an understanding of each family member’s mental health and sources of mental and shared knowledge of how each family member should be handled to achieve individual mental development and wellbeing
-Discard of old relationship treatment patterns that were maladaptive
-Adoption of new relationship patterns that support mental wellbeing of respective family members.
-Realise individual roles and responsibilities for respective family members towards the mental wellbeing of the entire family unit.
-Assertion of each ones identity in the new roles and responsibilities
-Development of individual goals away from environment for personal fulfilment
- Ensure collective support for each other’s new roles to be practiced over time
-Knowledge of supportive links outside family setting that can be sought to support new family mental health structure
-Motivation to seek support both from within and outside family structure to support new family mental health view
-Motivation to take steps towards ones emotional, physical, social and spiritual needs with implication to mental wellbeing
Changes overtime
Discernment abilities of each family member to feed into the mental wellbeing of the family unit.
Happy family life that reinforces healthier family relationships
Development of strong family character that is stronger against external shocks
Better problem-solving mechanism with openness and input of respective family members
Development of appropriate goals for better life outside family(school, work and social relationships)
Greater concentration levels at work
Greater productivity and rewards (academic and occupational)
Better and supportive relations outside family life
Greater positive sense of self and togetherness as family (positive identify)
Complementary and supplementary support to each family members who need it for the greater family life
Easy assimilation of trauma and mental healing in future in current and future trauma encounters.
Addressing widespread socioeconomic conditions which impact most on individuals and their families, with emphasis on families that have been hit most, through reliefs such as;
- Reading materials,
- Breakfast to starving women and children,
- Clean water
- Infections prevention kits
- Toilet facilities
- Pads for girls
- Vocation skills training
- Clothes
- Medicine
- Sanitation facilities
- Longterm rehabilitation of those facing addiction to alcohol and other drugs
- Demystify maladaptive religious and cultural dogmas as well as physio/yoga for the physically challenges yet impacting mental wellness.
- Agroforestry (fruit trees)
- Subsistence agriculture for families without food
- Commercial agriculture for livelihood development of families in need
Environmental impacts or benefits the project might have:
- Inaccessibility to safe and clean water, proper food diet and proper household incomes are the greatest challenges to families affected by mental problems, which in many respects are influenced by climate change. Therefore initiatives to preserve the environment and restore degraded cover are one significant motivation for the project. Demonstrations shall be established and seedlings given at affordable price for value addition to this particular activity, in order for families to be actively responsible to the environment by way of agroforestry and fruit tree growing that support efforts to promote food security and agriculture related employment for the majority of women and youths. And institute and promote policy of planting 30 trees for every one cut down.
HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED
As client
As volunteer
As service activity sponsor
As client sponsor
As fundraiser
As donor/funder
As ambassador
As development partner
As friend
Visit us
Visit our blog www.integratedmhi.blogspot.ug
Visit our facebook page: www.facebook.com/integratedmentalhealthinitiative
HOW YOU CAN REACH US
Telephone: +256774336277 or +256752542504
Email: waiswajacobo@yahoo.co.uk or dishma.imhs@gmail.com
