1. Inclusion and Community Care: Mental Health Day Centre Enabling Recovery
Rajinikanth Maruthu
Dublin South East Mental Health Service
Community Health Care East

2. AIM OF THE MENTAL HEALTH DAY CENTRE
“To provide social support for clients who have chronic and enduring mental health difficulties and provide support in their rehabilitation, social inclusion and recovery”.

3. ADVANTAGES Located near Out Patient department
Easy communication with multi-disciplinary team
Cost effective
Well aligned with a national recovery frame work for mental health
Safe environment
Support from management and other voluntary agencies including District Mental Health Association

4. RECOVERY BASED ACTIVITIES
Active walking; Board games; Media club; Cooking / Baking; Information session; Humour club; News paper reading group; Relaxation session; arts and crafts; Gardening and Film club
Clients themselves organize most activities
One to one session as required

5. EVALUATION
The day centre has an organisational approach to a co-produced evaluation strategies to monitor the effectiveness of its recovery approach.
The aim of the evaluation is to monitor the utilization of the service and to establish the level of satisfaction from the service users’ perspective and from the stakeholders’ perspective.

6. OUTCOME OF SERVICE USERS’ SATISFACTION SURVEY
Total clients - 65;
Participants - 50;
Responses received- 32**
Agreed or Satisfied - 29**
Tool used - Service User Rating of Effectiveness (SURE) for Ireland
** Highly significant

7. STUDENTS’ FEEDBACK
Three nursing students had placement (between 09/2017 to 02/2018). All of them expressed positive experience.
“Throughout my placement in the Day Centre I have had an outstanding educational experience...” (A sample statement)

8. RESULT OF MEMBERS OF MDT SATISFACTION SURVEY
Survey Questionnaire contained a rating scale; two qualitative questions and a space for suggestions
Responses received - 5 out of 14 members; Satisfaction of the responders – 9.5 (Highly satisfied); and No negative feedback

9. SUMMARY OF THE DATA FROM DATA BASE