Historically the first sports games for people with mental health problems EVENTS were attended by 7 representatives rom Fokus Praha and Fokus Mladá Boleslav in Athens, Greece. From September 21 to 23, they competed in traditional disciplines such as football, tennis, volleyball, trekking, running, biking ... but they also tried fresh sports such as capoeira, firsbe, thai chi, TRX together with people from 14 other countries across Europe and from Turkey. All in a wonderful atmosphere that organizers from the Greek organization EDRA, together with all the participants, were able to create.
As an enthusiastic participant form Portugal says to the organizers: "Many congratulations, you have been able to materialize the dream of bringing together people and countries with common goals - to have more mental health, to have fun, to socialize, to be more active. This was a big step towards showing governments and policy makers that physical activity and sports are key factors for living and healthy and happy life."
Thank you to the athletes who represented us and look forward to the next event in 2019!
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Mental Health Weeks have new logo and visuals this year! The oldest and most successful destigmatization event in the Czech Republic is now also supported by the Destigmatization team of the National Institute of Mental Health and the Initiative NA ROVINU. Thanks to this collaboration, a new campaign logo, the visuals emerged, and a new web site was created with an on-line application for all events. We will joing our effort to promote the 29th year of the campaign!
The online application will be available at www.tdz.cz at the end of August. Visuals for download and free use to promote all events are already available in the Library of our website here.
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European awareness campaign connecting sport & physical activity with mental health
LIFE IS LIKE A BIKE
«Life is like a bike. To keep your balance, you have to keep moving»: Albert Einstein combines in one sentence the laws of Physics with a life attitude. Another source of inspiration for the holistic approach of Mental Health through an active living, through the use of the positive effect that sport and physical exercise have on our daily mood and mental balance.
The "Life is Like a Bike" campaign is based on the results of the European survey among organizations and individuals about their experience and their opinions on the contribution of physical exercise and sport to mental health through specially designed questionnaires for sports organizations, mental health providers (recipients of their services or professionals) and the general population. The survey lasted two months (October-November 2017) and was completed with 2,656 participants from 12 European countries.
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Mental Health Europe together with the Tizard Centre- University of Kent released "Mapping and Understanding Exlusion in Europe" 2018 report - a unique study which looks at the state of mental health services across 35 Europe countries and provides exclusive data and testimonies about European mental health systems, ongoing human rights violations and the changes on the horizon.
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The second meeting of MENS Project (Mental European Network of Sport Events) was successfully held on the 22nd and the 23rd of June 2017 in the city of Prague. The project aims to develop strong institutional procedures for the specific contribution of sport and physical exercise to the prevention, therapy and rehabilitation of mental illness at a European level.
During the two days of the meeting, 39 representatives from 17 partners from 12 countries, including Fokus ČR, reviewed the successfully implemented stages of the project so far and afterwards they examined the progress of the ongoing tasks as well as programmed the upcoming ones. One day was dedicated exlusively to the Constituent General Assembly of the European Network of Active Living for Mental Health – ENALMH. Fokus ČR is represented in the Managing Board by Jan Drobný.
Great thanks belongs to the team of Dům u Libuše by Fokus Praha, who prepared a wonderful catering with excellent servis. We were proud to have such an good practice and example of social rehabilitation work at the international level.
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