what is institutionalisation and how to promote deinstitutionalisation?

toolkit in armenian

Armenia lacks versatile mental health services offered to persons with mental health challenges.
the few services are available in psychiatric and residential care institutions inherited from the Soviet Union.

in 2010, Armenia's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities set up an obligation to close residential care and psychiatric institutions, to not open new institutions and to not adopt new service policies which entail institutionalisation. at the same time, Armenia committed to develop rights-based, versatile and multidisciplinary services that secure the protection of persons with mental health challenges and meet their needs. Armenia lags behind in implementing this entire process constituting deinstitutionalisation.

the goal of this toolkit is to review, summon and present answers to the following questions։
o what constitutes an institution, what is institutionalisation?
o what are the elements of an institution, institutionalisation?
o how does institutionalisation impact women* and children?
o how can we avoid creating institutions?
o how can deinstitutionalisation be achieved?