Over the past 6 months, Cohort 1’s Team Aurora, in collaboration with Trybe, has been working with mentally-ill patients from Sunlove Home. Some of these patients have been living in Sunlove Home for over a decade, and their relationships with their families are less than ideal.
Through engaging them in simple activities such as games, art, and reaching out to their families, the team aims to improve the relationships between these mentally-ill patients and their families. On a few occasions, Team Aurora has also taken the patients out of Sunlove Home for outings, so that they get a chance to reconnect with the society they have been detached from. Subsequently, the Aspirants started reaching out to and engaging the family members of the clients to address the barriers to reconciliation.
In their final stage of project implementation, the team has organised an event on 28 Dec 2014 with the objective of bringing together the patients and their family members through facilitate positive interactions and provide opportunities for the family members to better understand and empathise with the psychiatric patients. The lessons learned from the project will be documented to facilitate engagement of the family members of other psychiatric patients.
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