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Conference Timetable (schedule in Polish local time, UTC +1)

Friday 30 September 2022
8:00 - 9:00
Registration (hall)
9:00 - 9:15
Welcome to the participants and special guests - dr hab. Ewa Kurantowicz, Rector of the University of Lower Silesia and Marcin Krzyżanowski, Deputy Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodship
BLOCK I - INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT FOR CHANGES IN POLISH MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM
9:15 - 9:45
Ledia Lazeri (WHO Europe) The process of deinstitutionalization of services of the mental health system - what is it, how does it proceed in different countries and what does it teach us?
9:45 - 10:15
Dr. Roberto Mezzina (World Federation of Mental Health and International Mental Health Collaborative network) International trends in community care - including Trieste
10:15 - 10:45
Dr. Jan Pfeiffer (Ministry of Health, Czech Republic) Czech Republic - an example of system reform from the perspective of the coordinator of this process
10:45 - 11:00
 Q&A 
11:00- 11:15
Coffee break
BLOCK II - POLISH ASSUMPTIONS OF THE CHANGES AND EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICES
11:15 - 11:45
Dr. Anna Depukat (Pilotage Office of the reform and IPiN) Piloting of Mental Health Centers (MHCs) in Poland as preparation for system reform
11:45 - 12:05
Prof. Andrzej Kiejna (Lower Silesian Mental Health Center, University of Lower Silesia) What are the results of the first study of the pilot MHCs effectiveness?
12:05 - 12:25
Beata Walter and Mariusz Panek(MHC Wieliczka) How did we use the experience of the EU project to establish MHC in the county without a psychiatric hospital?
12:45 - 13:00
 Q&A 
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
BLOCK III - PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL IN THE PROCESS OF CHANGE
14:00 - 14:20
 Michał Stachów (Lower Silesian Mental Health Center) How to engage psychiatric hospitals in the transition toward community mental health centres?
14:20 - 14:40
14:40 - 15:00
 Anna Kraucz-Miękus (Foundation 'Opieka i Troska', partner of MHC Wrocław Psie Pole) Social services integrated with health services - in practice
15:00 - 15:15
 Q&A 
15:15 - 15:30
Coffee break
BLOCK IV - WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO SUCCEED?
15:30 - 15:45
 Magdalena Nowak (University of Lower Silesia) The University of Lower Silesia in the implementation of the objectives of the National Programme for Mental Health Protection
15:45 - 16:00
Krzysztof Henczak (Polish Institute of Open Dialogue) Recovery Assistants - who they are and what role may they have in the MHC team?
16:00 - 16:15
 Regina Bisikiewicz (Leadership Management Poland) Change of thinking and change of practice - how they influence change of system?
16:15 - 16:30
 Olga Khan (WHO Warsaw Office) WHO QualityRights - how can this program be used to support changes in the Polish system?
16:30 - 17:00
REFLECTIONS OF PARTICIPANTS SUMMARIZING THE CONFERENCE