IMHA - Activist w/ Psychosocial Disabili This project aims to provide a platform for self-advocates with psychosocial disabilities to continue their learning  process, suchas being  able  to solve  the  problems  theyexperience,  educate  more  people  with psychosocial  disabilities  about  their  rights,  and  advocate  on  relevant  topics  that  are important  to  their well-being  by  run  and  led  an  organization  independently. This  platform  will  be  in  the  form  of  Jakarta branch of Indonesian Mental Health Association (Perhimpunan Jiwa sehat/PJS) and functions as a forum for self-development as well as a place to campaign for the rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities to the wider community.This organization will be led and driven by self-advocates independently.It is hoped that this self-run and self-led  organization  can  improve  their  bargaining  position  and  at  the  same  time  become  a  forum  for mutual  support  in  dealing  with  daily  problems.  In  addition,  by  expanding  IMHA  in  East  Java,  they  can mobilize  more  persons  with  psychosocial  disabilities  to  better  understand  their  rights  as  persons  with disabilities and as citizens.The planned activities consist of 4 parts:1. Peer Support GroupAs someone with mental health problems,living everyday life is already a difficult struggle.This peer support is a safety net where they share stories and encourage one another.Periodically the peer support group will invite a counselor or mentor to help maintain their psychological fitness, such as a psychologist, yoga instructor, art therapyadvisor etc. 2. Capacity Building and Self-Development ActivitiesThis activity aims to develop the capacity of self-advocates to run the organization and develop their respective interests.For organizational development there will be a short leadershiptraining as well as a short training on organizational management and finance. In addition, to improve self-advocates skills to speak in forums, a short public speaking training will be held.For interest andtalent development activities, a training program for making short videos using cellphone cameras will be held. In addition, efforts will be made to develop several interest and talent clubs such as the English club, writing club and art club. 3. Campaigns and Education to The PublicThis activity aims to conduct a campaign to the public about what psychosocial disability is, the obstacles and discrimination experienced and the rights of persons with disabilities as citizens, and to eliminating stigma anddiscrimination. This is a regular program that will run continuously. Activities that will be carried out in this sub-program including launching short videos about the daily life of persons with psychosocial disability. These videos will made entirely by self-advocates, from script writing, shooting, editing, insert texts as well as all the castings.4.AdvocacyAdvocacy activities are planned to focus on two topics that are closely related to the daily lives of people with psychosocial disabilities.The first is the problem of availability of medical services and psychological therapy. The medication available for people with psychosocial disabilities covered by the BPJS were very limited. Many newer
3generations of medications with mild sideeffects donothave generic versions available, so they are very expensive. Apart from medicine, counseling and psychological services are very important for persons with psychosocial disabilities, however these services are still rarely provided. For these two issues we will organize a series of advocacy activities targeting the Ministry of Health and the BPJS.The second is the issue of support for persons with psychosocial disabilities while studying in tertiary education. The dropout rate of students with psychosocial disabilities in college and universities is very high. For this reason, it is necessary for the educational facilities to provide support and reasonable accommodation for students with psychosocial disabilities in tertiary institutions.Law No.8 of 2016requires all tertiary institutions to have a disability service unit, but this has not been implemented. We plan to approach a university in Jakarta and encourage them to establish a disability service unit that is also inclusive of persons with psychosocial disabilities.