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Revista de salud publica del Paraguay

versión impresa ISSN 2224-6193versión On-line ISSN 2307-3349

Resumen

CATTEBEKE-LACONICH, Evelyn. Social inclusion of homeless people with mental illness: a community-based intervention. Rev. salud publica Parag. [online]. 2023, vol.13, n.3, pp.22-28. ISSN 2307-3349.  https://doi.org/10.18004/rspp.2023.dicie.04.

Introduction

: Experience of a community from a neighborhood of the Capital City (Asunción-Paraguay), mobilized by the recording of a Short Documentary by cinematography students, who begin a process of participation to improve the quality of life of a person with mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities who are homeless, achieving their social inclusion.

Objective

: Identify the key elements that allowed community participation and the social reintegration process of a person with a mental disorder or psychosocial disability to contribute with innovative strategies of community-based care models with a human rights approach.

Materials and Methods

: A qualitative type study of narrative design, using data from a person's story and the experience of a community to describe, analyze and identify the key elements to the results achieved. The community experience was closely observed and recorded for more than 4 years.

Results

: active community participation around a collective objective driven by a film project, achieving the reintegration and social rehabilitation of a person with mental disorder who was in street situation.

Conclusion

: Cinema or art generates an emotional and sensitizing impact that, accompanied by sustainable strategies; facilitation, technology, economic resources, places of residence or reception, support; allows taking advantage of and mobilizing community resources, with participation and a human rights approach. The result in this case is the social inclusion of a person with mental disorders or psychosocial disabilities who was at the extreme of social exclusion; street life for more than 20 years.

Palabras clave : community participation; mental health; psychosocial disability; severe mental disorder; social inclusion; community care model; human rights.

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