166 million children and adolescents aged 10-19 years worldwide experience a mental disorder - the value of prevention and promotion for child and adolescent mental health, and the importance of early intervention to prevent mental illness needs to be a priority for child and adolescent mental health services.
The aim of the Day Centre for Children & Adolescents is to lay the foundations so that children, adolescents and young adults in a safe environment of joy and motivation have the opportunity to strengthen their abilities and develop the internal mechanisms that will accompany them in their daily lives.
The individual objectives pursued through the operation of the Day Centre are:
- To contribute to the socialisation of children and adolescents
- To contribute to the smooth social and educational in the school environment
- Create functional bonds within the family
- To psychoeducate parents and guardians on the challenges of Mental Health
The Day Centre is addressed to children and adolescents with mental disorders and psychosocial problems. In particular, direct beneficiaries of the Day Centre can be:
- children - 10 to 13 years old who have psychological and psychosocial difficulties or disorders,
- adolescents - 13 to 18 years old who have psychological and psychosocial difficulties or disorders,
- young adults - 18 to 22 years old who have psychological and psychosocial difficulties or disorders.
Indirect beneficiaries of the Day Centre can be the family/supportive framework of the beneficiary children and adolescents, health and mental health professionals, schools and social institutions working with children and adolescents.
The Institution cooperates with the General Hospital of Attica "Sismanoglio" and EPAPSY in order to offer scientific experience, supervision and know-how for the organization and operation of the services of the Day Centre.
Reception services
- Secretarial Support & Information Provision
- Reception and transmission of requests
- Monitoring & managing meetings
Psychological services
- Needs assessment, conducting psychometric tests
- Development and implementation of personalised care and support plans
- Therapeutic interventions (counselling support for the empowerment and strengthening of the mental resilience of children and adolescents, individual therapeutic intervention for children, adolescents and parents facing mental disorders
- Therapeutic groups (family and school support groups, specialised programmes such as therapeutic exercise, arts therapies)
- Systematic monitoring (follow-up)
Child psychiatric & Psychiatric services
- Diagnostic assessment and needs assessment
- Development and implementation of personalised care and support plans
- Therapeutic intervention
- Systematic psychiatric medical monitoring (follow-up)
Social service
- Reception, organisation and management of requests
- Social needs assessment
- Information and support on social-welfare issues
- Operation of the referral protocol
- Organisation and operation of groups of interconnected actors
- Conducting information workshops and seminars - community psychoeducation
- Advisory support
Special Treatment Services
- Occupational therapy / Speech therapy
- Treatments through the arts
Nursing services
- First aid
- Emergency individual needs of children
- Health promotion and family and supportive counselling
Psychosocial rehabilitation activities
- Groups for the family with a variety of activities with a fixed and changing focus
- Sports activities in cooperation with local institutions
- Leisure activities
Specialised mental health services
- Therapy assisted with virtual & augmented reality tools
- Operation of specially designed Play and Relaxation areas for the family
- Digital Services - Children's Platform for information & psycho-education
Community education actions
- Networking and cooperation with services/bodies
- Conducting workshops, events, communication campaigns
- Development of methodological tools, guidelines and dissemination of good practices
- Mental health prevention & promotion groups
- Activation of voluntary actions integrated in the needs of the Day Centre
The Day Centre for Family Support is implemented within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan Greece 2.0 with funding from the European Union - NextGenerationEU.
Contact details
Address: 5 Skiathou & Bakogianni, Melissia - Penteli
Phone 1: 210 60 96 840
Phone 2: 697 47 86 950
Email: youth@thalpos.org.gr
Contact details
Address: 5 Skiathou & Bakogianni, Melissia - Penteli
Phone 1: 210 60 96 840
Phone 2: 697 47 86 950
Email: youth@thalpos.org.gr
