We bring you interesting blog written by Judith Klein director of the Mental Health Initiative, Open Society Foundations about the process of the deinstitutionalization in Croatia.

“And after sixteen years of advocacy, the Croatian government is listening. It has declared deinstitutionalization a priority in its 2013 budget – no small feat in these times of economic crisis. The Ministry plans to develop community-based services so that it can begin the closure of a large and horrendous institution for people with intellectual disabilities.”

Please read whole blog post HERE