Project

Region	National coverage
Title of the Programme	Health
Title of the Project	For Healing Souls
Number of the Project	ZD-ZDOVA1-021
Project Promoter	Palacký University Olomouc
Project Partner from Donor State	Nordland County Council
Czech Partner	EDDA, registered institute
Status	Estimated project duration: 03/2021 – 02/2024
More Information	Target group: a) Children and young people b) Teaching and non-teaching staff working with children and young people c) Parents and legal representatives of children and young people Web pages: https://www.prozdraviduse.cz/ https://www.facebook.com/ProZdraviDuse
Total Eligible Costs	551 551 EUR
Grant	551 551 EUR

Project description:

According to surveys one in five Czechs suffers from some form of mental illness, and up to half of patients develop symptoms before the age of 14. The National Action Plan for Mental Health therefore defines the need for early prevention at schools.

Prevention in the CR focuses mainly on behavioral symptoms, such as bullying, truancy, drugs, etc., however, universally targeted prevention focused on mental health is not systematically available. The solution is to create so-called multidisciplinary teams composed of child psychiatrists, psychologists, special teachers, social worker and nurses.

The proposed project aims to improve the situation of children and teenage at risk of the emergence, escalation or chronification of mental problems. Through MDteam and in cooperation with schools and other experts, we will create a support network of services in the Pardubice and Olomouc regions, where we will test the format of MDT's work on at least 200 cases resolved in schools, we will establish a long-term cooperation with.

Based on the experience of the foreign partner of the project, the care provided by MDT will be qualitatively different from the care available in the current system of services in the CR. The services of MDT will newly cover areas outside health care. Our project will introduce a measure that will enable a pilot connection of health care and registered social services into one targeted client plan.

An integral part of the project will be educational activities leading to the destigmatization of the topic and reflecting the most pressing areas of children´s mental health viewed from the position of schools, teachers, parents as well as children themselves. For this part of the project we will use the DIPEx methodology developed at The Oxford University, which uses in-depth interviews. The originality of the solution lies in the involvement of the participants in the cases in the creation of a reliable online source of information.