The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) established in 1992 that the World Mental Health Day would be marked annually on October 10. The aim of this initiative is to raise global awareness about mental health. 'Mental health in an unequal world' is this year's theme and highlights the inequalities that exist globally in terms of income, ethnicity, sexual orientation, lack of respect for human rights, all of which have an impact on mental health.
On the occasion of the World Mental Health Day, we celebrate all those people who devote their time to integrating people with mental health disorders in society, by increasing their ability to self-represent and exercise their rights so that they can enjoy an independent life.
The project responds to the need of increasing the capacity of people with mental health issues to address effectively the problems that affect them directly, by improving their self-representation skills in relation to political decision-makers at local and central level.
Estuar Foundation, together with Opportunity Associates Romania, have organized so far specialized training sessions in mental health in Cluj-Napoca, Ploiesti and Bucharest, with the aim of increasing the involvement of people with mental health problems in decision making by improving their self-representation skills.
Within the project, with the support of his colleagues, Dumitru Segărcenu, launched his first volume of poems called "Love, flowers and stars in my lyrics".
The project also aims to launch a self-representation model for people with mental health issues in order to change their attitudes and practices in relation to political decision makers at local and central level. Moreover, an advocacy campaign at national level will be implemented, with direct involvement of 40 people with mental health issues, in order to put on the public agenda the subject of their access to social and health services, with the aim of inclusion in the community.
