OMRA

Country

Slovenia

Type of structure

1 Governmental Organisation, 2 NGOs

Action scale

National

Description of the organisation

Partnership of 4 organisations:

• The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts – the leading scientific-research institute. It is composed of eighteen institutes.
• Inštitut Karakter-an NGO- an educational and scientific research institution; One of their aims is promotion of positive mental health.
• ALTRA- the oldest Slovene NGO in the field of mental health.
• Projekt človek- an NGO that provides self-help, therapy and social rehabilitation programmes for people with various forms of addiction.

Good practice

OMRA is the acronym for the programme ‘Increasing Mental Health Literacy to Manage Mood Disorders’. The main aim is to inform about what mental health is and how to cope with and manage mood disorders.

Target audience

All age groups (especially vulnerable groups such as children, adolescents, elderly, people with mental health problems and their relatives, Roma, people from diverse rural backgrounds…)

Resources

Guidelines / types of help
https://www.omra.si/pomoc/kaj-pricakovati-od-posameznih-oblik-pomoci/

Self-help tools (materials)
https://www.omra.si/pomoc/samopomoc/

Personal stories
https://www.omra.si/osebne-zgodbe/osebne-izpovedi/

Handbooks
https://www.omra.si/aktualno/prirocniki/