Stabilization and motivation for treatment 2013-2014

Project „Stabilization and motivation for treatment“, was funded by the Foundation Futur 21, and aimed at stabilization of the clients in the program “Solidarity” and also at attracting new clients. There are two main activities in this project:

• Participation of a psychiatrist in the team;
• Creation and implementation of evening group for support of people with drug misuse;

Evaluation of the participation of a psychiatrist in the team meetings:

Main activities:

• Participation in team meetings;
• Consultations with the clients of the program;
• Detoxification and following-up the patients’ condition;

Benefits for clients:

• More clients received this service;
• More finance relief for all the people that needed this service;
• Better quality of the consultations – because of the confidence in the team and the familiar environment in the daily center;
• More complete picture of the monitoring of the cases after the team work and the work with the referent;
• Possibility for organizing in a very short time counseling meetings with a psychiatrist;

 Create and implement a new evening group for support for people with problematic use

The target group is people between 18 – 65 years, who have problems with drug addiction or gambling, who were diagnosed, who had a previous therapy or are in active therapy or people who still are confronted with these problems. These are people for whom the structured treatment is inappropriate at this moment – because they work, had been finished such a treatment or their mental condition does not allow them a full-time treatment with such a daily framework.

Result – we made contact with 21 people, 5 of which visited the group.

On this base we can made partial conclusion that people seeking support, share similar complaints, regardless of the type of substance they have problematic use. Namely feeling of loneliness, difficulties in everyday life, dysfunctional social networking, despair and helplessness.

Difficulties – an insufficient motivation and not very clear targets, which influenced the framework of activities and a sense of responsibility to other members of the group. A major problem appears to be the commitment of potential users of the service, as well as different expectations, needs and requests of the people, said a problem with substance use.

In the future, we will explore the possibilities for such a target group in a more structured format to give them security and affect their commitment. We want to do this with the help of partners from the professional European network ECEtt (www.ecett.eu), which have good practices in this type of service.