Members in Romania

National organization, 67 members. All members are users or ex-users of psychiatry.

Objectives and aims: Advocacy, promoting rights of people with mental health problems.

Organization has a self-help group.

Address: Lt Ghorghe Negel No1-3, Bucharest, sector 6, Romania

Tel: 0723556447

E-mail: aripi.office@yahoo.com

Horizons Foundation

A local mixed organisation with a total of 70 members, 40 of them users/survivors.

Purpose: to support mental health service users and survivors to regain their self-confidence and to get into abilities and skills that to allow them an independent and active life at community level.

Main activities: The publication since 1995 of the „A FI – TO BE” magazine; Advocacy; Involvement in the elaboration of the local mental health policy; Media work in order to promote a positive image of mental health service users as active people at community level; Exchange of experience, cooperation and partnerships with Romanian and foreign NGOs with common goals.

Address: Trandafirilor 2, 725100 Campulung Moldovenesc, Romania

Phone/Fax: 0040 230 314 431

E-mail: ongorizonturi@yahoo.com

Web site www.orizonturi.org and Blogging the Dream: blog to promote the reality that people with mental health problems are also complex individuals with successful lives, dreams and hobbies.