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General<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/i>The Associa\u00e7\u00e3o para o Estudo e Integra\u00e7\u00e3o Psicossocial (AEIPS) is a private organization created in 1987 by a group of professionals, families and people with mental illness.<\/p>\n

AEIPS\u2019s mission is the promotion of recovery and social inclusion of people with a mental illness, by enhancing users\u2019 self-determination, choice and control over their own lives and providing support to facilitate people\u2019s access and social participation in community\u2019s natural contexts, in terms of housing, education and employment.<\/p>\n

Program involved in the project<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Personal and academic enrichment contains the capacity of transforming and empowering individuals. The increased level of knowledge equals to an increase in people\u2019s personal power and thus fosters the ability to better control the events of their life, and facilitate access to new and better job opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Education, training and employment program provides an array of support services in terms of choosing, getting and keeping educational, training and employment projects, fostering community liaisons and people\u2019s social inclusion.<\/p>\n

Through the Supported education program, people with mental illness have access to: regular schools and universities; information about educational opportunities and resources; educational projects according to individual preferences; support throughout the educational project and community connections.<\/p>\n

Supported Education Activities: Support to enroll in schools; individualized plans of study; regular meetings with teachers; Students\u2019 Group; monitored study; Educational Development.<\/p>\n

Expected Results: Educational and academic success; allow accessibility to integrated schools in the community; increased sense of empowerment and Community participation; personal development; acquisition of knowledge; ensure accessibility to education.<\/p>\n

The Supported Education Program maintains strong contacts with community educational contexts, involved in young and adult education, such as: schools, colleges, universities and training centers.<\/p>\n

There is also strong cooperation with ISPA \u2013 Higher Education Institution.<\/p>\n

Previous activities in supported education<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

AEIPS established protocols with several New Opportunities and training Centres, as well as Secondary Schools and Universities, where AEIPS works in partnership as consultant and as a support at studying in Supported Education.<\/p>\n

In 2007 AEIPS organized a Supported Education Conference \u201c Educa\u00e7\u00e3o Apoiada: Suportes educativos para jovens e adultos com doen\u00e7a mental no ensino b\u00e1sico, secund\u00e1rio e superior\u201d, <\/i>with the participation as keynote speakers of Steve Szivalgyi, Ex-Director of the Supported Education Community Action Group, School of Social Work, University of Michigan\u00a0 and Judith A. Cook, <\/b>from the <\/b>Centre on Mental Health Services Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago.<\/p>\n

Role in the project<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

AEIPS will:<\/p>\n