ABOUT US

Funded in 2001, Supporters for Mental Health (SUMH) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, implementing in Mental Health Services in Cambodia for over 10 years. Siem Reap province is selected as a target side of its Mental Health projects accordance with a general survey of this area and. SUMH provides two domain purposes for the first period of initial project; Firstly, organizes Psychosocial Rehabilitation Specialist Training, Secondly, creates Community Rehabilitation Program, which is suitable to the rural in Cambodia.

With PSR training program in the past, six people have successfully completed two years training upon on the guidelines of Ministry of Health and an active cooperation by National Program for Mental Health.  And now those advantage human resources remain their working in psychiatric wads of Siem Reap Referral Hospital and organization of SUMH.

And there after, Mental Health Rehabilitation Center was built in Siem Reap Referral Hospital compound, became a key place to contribute helpful rehabilitation activities to mentally ill patients and families, and where the community work plans are gathered to implement to the based-community population.   

In June 2010, under cooperation between Siem Reap Health Department and Supporters for Mental Health a new psychiatric ward in Ankor Chum Referral Hospital has started mental health care service, where the hospital system just put into public health services in early 2009 for local population. At the first years, SUMH supported two main working processes; psychotropic drugs and clinical human resources (psychiatrist and psychiatrist nurses). And the years after drugs supplies are taken a responsible by Ministry of Health, as SUMH consumes sustainable human resources.         

Mission

SUMH is the first active mental health services provider on Mental Health Rehabilitation Activities and Community Mental Health Awareness Promotion in Siem Reap province since 2001. The overall missions are the following

▪ to help vulnerable people to achieve adequate MH care services.

▪ to provide base-community psychosocial rehabilitation activities.

▪ to promote community mental health awareness.

▪ to support psychosocial rehabilitation practitioners and MH specialists training program

Current Program Activities

1. Mental Health Rehabilitation Program in Siem Reap Operational District

2. Community Mental Health Care Program in Angkor Chum Operational District

Donors

Supporters for Mental Health in Japan