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ABOUT FOR ALL AFRICA FOUNDATION

FAAF has reinforced itself as a center of repute in rehabilitation and research in disorders of the mind. The present team led by psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse practitioners, psychiatric nurses, psychotherapists, psychiatric social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, social workers, rehab psychologists, administrative and support workers.

FAAF aimed to prevent mental illness, improve health and social functioning of people with mental illness, reduce mortality from mental illness, reduce stigma, deliver effective services, to disseminate information and promote collaborative work in specific domains of psychiatry and to research into causes, care and consequences of mental illness.

The foundation is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, tribe, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, upgrades, training, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.

What are its aims? The core missions of FAAF include the following:

■To increase knowledge and skills about mental disorders and how they can be prevented and treated. ■To promote mental health. ■To disseminate knowledge about evidence-based therapy and values based practice. ■To be a voice for the dignity and human rights of the patients and their families, and to uphold the rights of psychiatrists. ■To facilitate communication and assistance especially to societies who are isolated or whose members work in impoverished circumstances. ■To streamline mental health care delivery and to help bridge the huge treatment gap that currently exists in community and hospital. ■To promote the development of the highest quality standards in psychiatric care, teaching and research, as well as the observance of such standards

Vision

To promote the advancement of psychiatry and mental health for all people worldwide.

WHAT WE DO

TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION

■Provides its services to the mentally ill through an out-patient clinic, a day care centre and a comprehensive rehabilitation centre that provides social and vocational training. ■Provides educational assistance to children of disabled clients as well as family empowerment programs and job placement for sufficiently received clients. ■FAAF runs residential centres. Each centre manned by a qualified multidisciplinary team who offer rehabilitation inputs to discharge patients at the earliest and reunite them with their families.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS

FOR ALL AFRICA FOUNDATION offers a new series of wellness workshops to educate the community about mental illness. To give guidance and information to enable them recognize early warning signs of mental illness in children and adolescents’ and on how to support them.

FAAF Community Health Officers work in rural areas at community level.Community Health Officers and community members are actively engaged as partners in the delivery of primary health care services. The goal is to mobilize community residents and resources to increase coverage, improve responsiveness and deliver more equitable and cost-effective health care to Ghana’s rural residents.

Key duties will be to:

■Conduct house to house visits to detect cases of mental disorder. ■Provide psychosocial support, such as family support and education, informal counseling and rehabilitation. ■Monitoring and supervision of patient’s adherence to treatment. ■Refer cases to FAAF and other appropriate health professionals. ■Produce reliable data on mental disorders at the community level. ■Organize mental health promotion activities at the community level. ■Ensure community participation to promote mental health. ■Develop effective professional relationships with clients and their families.

ANTI STIGMA AWARENESS PROGRAMS

■Educating the public about schizophrenia to create awareness and understanding. ■Facilitate early detection. ■Help eliminate social Stigmatization and Discrimination.

TRAINING AND TEACHING

Offers internship and training for students of social work, Psychology, Occupational therapy and Nursing. Students gain valuable experience in working with the chronic mentally ill through FAAF’s treatment and rehabilitation training.

FAAF also trains primary care physicians, multi-purpose workers and health workers in both urban and rural areas to enable early detection. As part of a collaborative effort with, several groups of professionals including doctors, nurses, staff of NGO’s have been trained.

RESEARCH

FAAF continues to carry research projects  on biological, social and psychological aspects of schizophrenia in collaboration with reputed national and international organizations. Our research team offer philosophies espousing strategies and techniques vaunted as effective for further improving the mental wellness of otherwise, healthy people.

LOBBYING

■FAAF continues to actively lobby with government and other apex bodies to initiate programs and allocate resources aimed at promoting a position of prominence for mental health within the public health agenda, and promote a better understanding and acceptance of the mental health needs of all people as well as challenging misconceptions and false belief systems about psychiatric disability; ■In studying and considering solutions to problems, provisions of mental health services must be included in Mental Health Bill ; andDiscrimination against persons with psychiatric disabilities and other psychological problems must be eliminated and appropriate mental health care should be available to all.

FAAF MEMBERSHIP

FAAF welcomes applications for membership from national and international groups worldwide including coalitions, networks and individual organizations.

BENEFITS OF FAAF MEMBERSHIP

■Join the advocacy groups to influence the work of the UN human rights system such as violence against the mentally disabled patients. ■Stand for election for membership in the Executive Committee of the organization. ■Participate in the General Assembly and vote between key decisions. ■Promote your organization work to global audience. ■Liaise at the time of admission with families or workplace. ■Educate and support the family. ■Reinstate patients in work places after rehabilitation.

MEMBERSHIP COMMITMENT

■Support the mission and objectives of the networks as outlined in our statutes. ■Contribute to our activities. ■Participate in the General Assembly if possible. ■Promoting the activities of the NGO Group in your country with your partners. ■Contribute to the NGO’s sustainability by paying annual fees.

MEMBERSHIP FEES

Membership fees are paid annually and depend on the members annual income.

In exception cases, with the agreement of the Executive Committee, fees may be waived for an agreed period of time.

HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER

Apply in writing to the foundation or fill the application pack. The Secretariat will provide your application document to the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will assess your application against the requirements of the NGO.

MEMBERSHIP TERMINATION

The Executive Committee may by unanimous vote and for good reason terminate the membership of any individual who acts against the foundations objects or its commitment to promoting mental health, providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, colour, tribe, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, upgrades, training, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.

FAAF Secretariat

MAILING ADDRESS

FOR ALL AFRICA FOUNDATION

POST OFFICE BOX ct 6013

CANTONMENTS

ACCRA

GHANA

OFFICE ADDRESS

BENSON HOUSE

PLT NO 257

EAST LEGON,

ACCRA

EMAIL: forallafricafoundation@gmail.com

TELEPHONE: 00233 246 511 486

DIRECTOR

KWAME SANAHENE

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