April 12 - The Kintampo Project delivers important epilepsy teaching across Ghana to doctors, nurses, Community Mental Health Officers, pharmacists and others.
This compliments a new Ghana / WHO / Sanofi-Aventis project to improve epilepsy services, being led by Dr Cynthia Sottie on behalf of Ghana Health Service.
You can read our report here (see project reports section)
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The Ministry of Health is supporting a survey to assess our mental health systems using a method developed by The World Health Organization, known as WHO-AIMS. This will provide baseline planning information and also elicit deficiencies in the mental health delivery in Ghana, enabling us to develop services that will be appropriate for our position as a middle income country. It will also guide us in the implementation of the Mental Health Act. This survey will be undertaken by the Kintampo College of Health, the Ministry of Health and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust of Hampshire, UK (The Kintampo Project) as partners. The results of the survey will be ready by February 2013. I kindly ask that you cooperate with the survey teams as they come to you for the necessary information and to invite you to meetings. Chief Director, Ministry of Health 16th February 2012
Key stakeholders from Education, Service and Workforce met for 4 days in Kintampo to check that the MAP and CMHO programmes are fit for purpose and what the country needs. Read the full briefing document via Project Documents,
- go to'Project Reports' - Curriculum Evaluation report February 2012.
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September 2011 saw over 70 MAP and CMHO educators attend a 3rd Kintampo Project annual training workshop in Kintampo. Attendance was truly intersectoral reflecting the future for community mental health care in Ghana. Read more on our documents page
www.thekintampoproject.org/documents
go to 'project reports' - Preceptor, Tutor, Educator Workshop September 2011
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In the third and final part of this video series, we listen as Dr Adjase describes the big picture about mental health in Ghana, and how the Kintampo Project fits in to the wider scheme of healthcare development:
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On 17 Jan, the UK Kintampo Project members hosted a special event to celebrate the launch of our new UK-registered charity, The Kintampo Trust, which has been created specially to raise funds for our work in Ghana.
The Kintampo Trust will help us focus our fundraising efforts and really accelerate the progress we are making in Ghana at what is a crucial phase of our Project.
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The Kintampo Project has been successful in it's application to help Ghana survey the whole of its mental health system using the international standard WHO-AIMS (World Health Organisation Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems). The results will be used for planning and policymaking especially for;
(a) Renewal of Ghana Ministry of Health Mental Health Programme of Work 2103-201
(b) Implementation of the forthcoming new Ghana Mental Health Act
(c) Monitoring and evaluation for The Kintampo Project Outcomes
The Kintampo Project is very proud to have been chosen by Ghana to help this very important work rolling out new mental health services to rural communities and people in need. Read more about what we're doing in Ghana
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December 2011 - our Project Review is being distributed widely across Ghana and the UK. The review was produced entirely by volunteers and is being sent out through internal main systems, low cost postage and email. Read updates on our milestones and progress here.]]>
Small group session at the workshop‘The way you made us think through the issues was just wonderful. Thank you so much’ Direct quote from Participant Social Worker
The Kintampo Project third national educator (preceptor) workshop was held in September 2011 (12th -16th) to build on two highly successful and popular workshops held in 2010 and 2009. On this occasion the meeting was attended by 66 educators from all 10 regions of Ghana and for the first time, the preceptor group included 12 Social Workers, 1 Prison Officer, 1 Traditional Priest, 2 MAP and 6 CMHO students as future educators, as well as Mental Health Nurses who had already attended the previous 2 workshops. The multi professional group provided fertile ground for fostering communication and joint working, and major progress was made towards developing the ‘hub-and-spoke’ model in all 10 regions.
We ensure long term sustainability of our work through developing high quality mental health educators in Ghana. See our approach to education ...
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