“OrenProPsy” – Orenburg, Promotion, Psychiatry.

“OrenProPsy” is an Independent Non-profit Organization, which was founded to make information and services in the sphere of mental health easy to access. The main aims of the organization are to promote the proper information on mental diseases and methods of their treatment alongside with the information on the possible ways of the rehabilitation of those who suffer from mental diseases; stimulate the professional development of the staff; provide all services in the sphere of mental health for the public access; encourage the use of all possible means to solve the problems in the sphere of mental health. “OrenProPsy” activites are aimed at different groups of people such as: patients with mental disorders, their relatives, mental health specialists and the public at large. “OrenProPsy” main activites include publishing activities (books, brochures, booklets, leaflets); informative activities (lectures, discourses, social work, practical work with patients and people from their surroundings, mass media presentations of mental health problems; educational work (seminars and conferences for mental health specialists); direct assistance for the projects which are carried out in the sphere of mental health in partnership with other organizations. On Mental Health Day “OrenProPsy” organized mass media presentations and lectures on the mental health problems for the internists and the general public. Different charity programs get their financial support from private and public organizations in Orenburg and its region. The research work is conducted in association with the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology of Orenburg State Medical Academy.