OpenMind

The  global On-going Programme : “Operating and ensuring a Safe Haven with Art Therapy, Hortitherapy, Therapeutic and Psychosocial services including Speech Therapy and Psychomotor Therapy for the Integral Development, Alleviation of Distress  and Social  Reinsertion of Children, Youngsters suffering from psychological disorders."

The method and approach of OpenMind therapeutic services are customized and therefore does not allow for mass treatment of beneficiaries in abstract mode. Therefore, there is a tailor made programme of services and the time that it requires to produce results on an individual in that area of work, varies from beneficiary to beneficiary.

• Art-Therapy, Psychosocial & Therapeutic Services for Children and Youngsters 
• “Ateliers des Métiers d’Art” - Training in upcycled handicrafts for Capacity Development 
• Hortitherapy & Ecotherapy Programme for the wellbeing, skills development, and social inclusion of people suffering from psychological disorders – "Healing Green”

373 Children and Youngsters 

Our beneficiaries include children and adolescents suffering from mild to severe disorders such as hyperactivity, dyslexia, school phobia, anxiety disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Schizophrenia, Traumas from abuse and others. 

• Early Detection and relief of emotional, psychological & psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents.
• Assisting families and responsible parties to cope more effectively with a child/adolescent afflicted by a mental condition.
• Raising awareness and doing advocacy on the importance of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 
•  Helping to reintegrate children and youngsters in the mainstream school structure or help with reorientation wherever possible 
• Identification and alleviation of psychological distress and emotional disorders. 
• Psychological relief and guidance provided through neuropsychological, psychological assessment and one-on-one support. 
• Recovery of emotional balance, self-esteem, communication abilities. 
• Enabling beneficiaries to cope effectively with familial/social problems and hence lessen the occurrence of conflicts. 
• Helping beneficiaries to be more aware of their responsibility and to adopt long term changes in terms of attitude, conduct and behaviours. 
• Acquisition of social skills and social integration. 
• Reducing the rate of antisocial activities among youngsters and delinquency. 
• Development of educational capabilities such as memorization & concentration with the “Ateliers Cognitifs”.
• Making beneficiaries understand the importance of education/training to improve their attendance at school/job placement thus promoting academic/social progress and success in their study.
• Creating in the new generation the required discipline and mindset, thus creating a peaceful society with physically, psychologically and mentally well-balanced youngsters in the community.
• Enhancing capacity development for social inclusion through the Ateliers des Métiers d’Art
• Reintegration of beneficiaries in the mainstream society including their family, social, work and school structure.

OpenMind is a unique service provider in sustainable therapeutic programmes for vulnerable children. 

The major outcome of the programme is the healing, welfare, rehabilitation and social reinsertion of beneficiaries by the alleviation of psychological distress, relief of behavioural symptoms and social inclusion.

• Providing a safe haven - OpenMind Centre - with therapeutic and psychosocial services for the welfare and rehabilitation of persons with behavioural problems and to fulfil their right to a decent living, dignity and integral development.
• Alleviation of emotional, psychological and psychiatric symptoms.
• Improvement of attitude and behaviour in the family and at school – noted for example in children with hyperactivity
• Improvement of psychomotor skills, including writing
• Improvement of speech and reading abilities
• Children back to school
• Changes in terms of attitude, conduct and behaviours
• Psychosocial enhancement : Functional families result in a functional society
• Development of Life Skills
• Rehabilitation of the children/youngsters in order to help them to develop necessary practical skills to cope with the daily challenges of life.
• The development of the social skills and the re-adaptation of youngsters excluded from any form of economic activities
• Cognitive capabilities developed such as memorization & concentration
• Health enhanced through therapeutic activities such as in Food Programme or hortitherapy
• Opportunity provided to the beneficiaries to work in an environment conducive to their self-development