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Day Center Confidence

The day center that is closely related with the association "Confidence" is built in 2009. The aim of the day center is to prevent social exclusion of people with mental illness and mental retardation.

Daily activities in the center prevent social isolation and staying at home,that is often occurs in case of such conditions . The program of the day center includes complete list of activities that helps young people with mental health problems to find tolerant and understanding environment. This motivates them to develop their potential and selfconfidence. Daily activities build structure in their life,that helps them to develop necessary skills for daily life and self-care. Our team of psychologists and social workers work hard to encourage abilities, development and rehabilitation.

Center fulfills the natural need of every person to be understood and accepted,natural need of social contacts and friendships,happiness and creation,natural need to be part of group and of the society as whole .

We share the conviction that almost any patient can be helped to achieve a higher level of adjustment.We believe that with support recovery can be achieved, by helping individuals live a normal, significant life in their community—a life that reflects their personal choices. Negative attitude of the general population toward people with mental illness is another reason for their isolation. Attention must be paid to the fact what family experience because of the stigma of the people suffering from mental disease. On regular basis the center offer a psychological help to families and relatives, who taking care of the mentally ill person. This helps them to deal with difficulties and obstacles, that may occur in the process of rehabilitation and care. Families are often experience stress and anxiety due to their relative condition. The purpose of the psychological consultation is to reduce stress levels, to gain deeper understanding of the illness and develop working coping strategies, that can be used for example in moments of crisis. It is all necessary in building a good partnership between families and team working in the center.

Activities Day center offers a number of social and recreational events:

1.Arterapy - involve rehabilitation trough creative media, Art and music all appeal to a person's senses. Each helps a person express himself or herself and help distract from the disease or illness.This can help a person deal with emotional conflicts, become aware of issues, and express unspoken concerns. Art therapy includes painting, sculpting, drawing, and any other form of art. Especially in our center we involve very much working with clay, and creations of different kind of souvenirs and talismans. We have shops nearby, that are with agreement with us and sells our creations.

2. English and computer skills to a very basic level.

3. Symptom management -medication taking skills

4. Develop and maintain daily living skills.

5. Learning of social skills.

Searching of employment.

6.Rehabilitation activities - theatre,coffee,walks,listening to music,dance.

Individual Psychotherapy

Individual therapy is a form of therapy in which the client is treated one-on-one with a therapist. In caring and safe environment.

People seek therapy for a wide variety of reasons, from coping with major life challenges or childhood trauma, to dealing with depression or anxiety, to simply desiring personal growth and greater self-knowledge. A client and therapist may work together for as few as five or six sessions or as long as several years, depending on the client’s unique needs and personal goals for therapy.

Senior Citizen Empowerment for Active Aging

( Eu recent project)

This is Grundtvig Partnership project aims to empower seniors for civic action in their community through intergenerational learning focused their ICT basic skills, social & civic competence and knowledge of pets and strays as a community issue. The target groups are seniors in multigenerational families and/or groups involved in all project activities. Staff will take the role of guides and mentors in the process. The project builds on a review of pets and strays mythology, urban legends, personal memories collected in different formats; a study on risks & benefits for community and families with a particular emphasis on the four community groups designated for volunteer practice (children, people with health problems, community NGOs & public authorities and services); learning needs assessment (civics and ICT). The results include 4 tool kits for the teams of learners in their volunteer actions on possible involvement of different citizens in community problem with pets and strays. Country work spaces will support networked delivery and project work memory. The dissemination strand of the project includes learners team practice with the 4 community groups using the tool kits created by the project; the FB project page; learners and staff networking via individual/group FB accounts; info sessions. A final European conference will be organized and published in the Grundtvig education & learning database to provide for an pro-active Europe wide dissemination action. The partnership is coordinated by Romania and includes community organizations from Bulgaria, Poland, Turkey and the UK engaged in a collaborative community exercise.

How can I participate in the actions of the Association " Confidence" ?

We always look for motivated people who ,want to help us develop and be active in field of mental health and wellbeing:

As a Volunteer

As a Specialist

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We looking for Volunteers in :

Day Care Center, working with people with mental illness and mental retardation.

Also looking for volunteers for project learning partnerships - people over 50 who want to travel in Europe and want to be active here in supporting welfare initiative dealing with the problem of stray dogs and cats.

If you want more information contact us by phone or email.

03.02.2014