The Half-way Home, also known as Group Home was designed specifically by the Mental Health Association of Kuching to act as a Rehabilitation Centre for mentally ill people who have been discharged by the hospital and other institution to prepare them to return to their families or community to lead a normal life.
With residential quarters provided for these 'residents' as they are known, the concept is to educate them to live in an environment where they can feel 'at home' in a place of the hospital ward. In this environment, they are exposed to think and be proactive in their daily lives such as looking after their personal hygiene, house-keeping like washing their own clothes, cleaning bedrooms, sweeping floors, etc. On top of these, they need to learn to buy daily essential food before before preparing and cooking for themselves. On relationship among each other, they are encouraged to behave as brothers and sisters in a family and quarrels with one another are discouraged.
Day attendants with mental illness from the community are also allowed into the Home to participate in the daily activities and socialize with other residents. This idea is to create an environment of good friendship and a feeling of normal not only among the residents but also with visitors to the Home.
Some of the residents who have been rehabilitated in the Home have been able to return to their homes or village to lead a normal life and earn a living.
With residential quarters provided for these 'residents' as they are known, the concept is to educate them to live in an environment where they can feel 'at home' in a place of the hospital ward. In this environment, they are exposed to think and be proactive in their daily lives such as looking after their personal hygiene, house-keeping like washing their own clothes, cleaning bedrooms, sweeping floors, etc. On top of these, they need to learn to buy daily essential food before before preparing and cooking for themselves. On relationship among each other, they are encouraged to behave as brothers and sisters in a family and quarrels with one another are discouraged.
Day attendants with mental illness from the community are also allowed into the Home to participate in the daily activities and socialize with other residents. This idea is to create an environment of good friendship and a feeling of normal not only among the residents but also with visitors to the Home.
Some of the residents who have been rehabilitated in the Home have been able to return to their homes or village to lead a normal life and earn a living.
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