PSIHOS

LOCAL ACTIVITY WITH NGO PSIHOS

Date: 17.12.2023.

We continued this week with the implementation of activities aimed at making young people aware of the difficulties faced by young people with disabilities. The importance of adapted communication and behavior in terms of etiquette is one of the items we had the opportunity to learn together with the young people from the partner association.

This activity is carried out as part of the project "NFE for DIS" which was carried out in Cyprus and training for other organizations in the local community in which representatives of DOKKICA, HAZ, EWOB, COO Ivan Štark, PSIHOS and Broadway participated.

The workshop we conducted with a partner organization aimed to provide an experiential understanding of what people with mental disabilities go through in their communities.

Considering that PSIHOS association is very active in the field of mental health, it was emphasized that some of the difficulties are often invisible at the first contact and it is important to increase awareness in this area as well. This is their most valuable area of contribution in local community and it was a great opportunity to extend their knowledge beyond mental issues. They have had great contribution in various ways with their own members and also with other target groups and they were also very curious and engaged into this workshop to learn more.

In the first part of the activity we looked back and touched upon a series of everyday obstacles that are completely invisible to the rest of the population, while they represent a serious problem for them. We engaged in the brief discussion where they had to detect in pairs what is their opinion about what are possible obstacles for people with disabilities.

We have them various cards and they had to detect what could be possible issue for people with various disabilities. Since they were also very active in local community we shared with them all of the workshops that we have implemented so far and shared the implementation part of the booklet. They have already implemented some of the activities that are also part of the booklet but some of them were not part of their work.

We had implemented counting mind activity with them since this way one of the activities that they have not taken part in so far. We did 3 different ones adding different elements each time to make it more diverse.

In the end we presented our project and handed all of the participants stickers which they liked a lot and shared our experience of the project with them.