By Sha Nigar | Senior Manager
Dear Donors, Friends and Well-wishers of The Association of People with Disability (APD).
We are pleased to submit to you the report of activities for the Mental Health Project
APD has supported so far 546 Persons with mental illness to access psychiatric treatments and engaged in the different activities for the year 2012-13.
Successful story of Ms Jayashree - A Beneficiary of APD
Jayashree 23 years old, is a native of Davanagere and studied till 2nd year P.U.C. She is eldest daughter in her family. Her father is working as non teaching staff at private school in Bangalore. According to the family information, she was suffering from severe mental illness called Bipolar Affective Disorder, (BPAD) due to love affair and failure. Then parents were referred and provided treatment from Manasa Hospital Shimoga and Bapuji Hospital Davanagere. Two months she had taken the treatment. Then she discontinued the treatment and symptoms were remained same due to lack awareness and counseling.
Symptoms :- Due to lack of proper treatment and counseling, she is having following symptoms like, Suspicious of people, talking about him, some time salient, not self cleaning, not going to work, not taking the family responsibilities.
APD intervention:- After identification our staff has interacted with the family members and done assessment and short and long term goals for rehabilitation of Jayashree. Then given awareness on mental illness and method treatment and causes of relapse and convinced to the parents to take her Hospital. As result , every month Jayashree parents were taking her hospital and providing psychiatric medicines and Jayashree has undergone series of counseling for counselors. As result we can see change in her behavior and attitude and symptoms were keep on reduced.
After the Intervention:- After the regular intervention and follow up with Jayashree and her parents, now ,she has attended foundation course with her mother at Kamatampalli centre of APD . After the course orientation she is getting regular treatment from C.G Hospital Davanagere by Dr. Anupama and attending regularly meetings conducted for Persons with mental illness and care givers at Davanagere . Her parents were also oriented and trained to take care of her. Now she is learning tailoring skills at local centre. she wants to become tailor to support her family
Background of the Organization :- The Association of people with disability (APD) - is a nongovernmental organization started by a group of persons with Disability and their friends in the year 1959 to work towards main streaming and to help them lead an independent life in the society. This has become the main aim of APD. To achieve this APD provides medical, education, training, placements, and advocacy supports
The vision of APD is to “To ensure equality and Justice to Persons with Disabilities” towards this APD has three program approaches such as Institutional service, Districts Disability and Development program and Resource support to other, through this it reaches 30000 person with disabilities annually. Visit website:www.apd-india.org
In APD community mental health program started on 2004 at Banglore Urban areas.With this experience we extended the programme at Davanagere, Bijapura and Chikkaballapura districts.
The main role of Community mental health program is to identify PWMI with the support of local govt. workers, DPOs, community people and ensure treatment. Follow ups of the treatment, creating awareness of side effects of tablets toPWMI and their care takers , family care, livelihood activities, govt. Schemes, Acts and federation advantages. Community mental health program training people to reducing stigma about mental health and working with Governement officials to bring required policy changes in the Govt level.
THE IMPACT OF APD
Through CMH Program 546 PWMI ensure psychiatric treatment and their accessing regular treatment.
“ Mental illness is one of the disability according to Disability act. In 1987 National mental health act came into exist. But still Stigma and superstition associated with mental disorders, coupled with the unwillingness or inability of families to care for their mentally ill relatives, appear to be the main contributory factors. Support for this view accrues from an analysis of the demographic profile of India’s mental hospital population wherein nearly half are long-stay patients. Most of these patients continue to vegetate in a dehumanised asylum environment, not on account of clinical considerations, but because they have been abandoned by their families.
Hence , APD with the support of global giving is planning to reach the un reaching persons with mental illness and carers . Through Your support and help , we can bring change in the life of 900 PWMI and main stream them back into society .
We need your help to spread the word! Please share this opportunity with your friends and contacts, especially those who are USA tax payers . Post a link to our project page on your Facebook page asking your friends to donate . For further details please feel free to write to me shanigar@apd-india.org & afsarnigar1@gmail.com or call me on *Mob: +91-9972450655*
Our sincere thanks to all of our Donors for their kind donations and love. We shall submit to you more news in the next quarterly report.
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