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Branches and Circles

Our branches and circles organise locally group rehabilitation initiatives, phisical rehabilitation at patient's home, social rehabilitation, self-help support groups, psychological support, legal services, meetings with doctors and rehabilitation specialists and issue broshures and magazines. Meetings organised by the branches and circles give opportunity to make friends and build emotonal bonds.

Social Campaigns

Our information policy is conducted on wide scale. Through social campaigns, charitable concerts and cooperation with mass media we improve awareness about MS and bring to attention of society everyday problems of people living with MS.

Publications

We publish broshures, books, leaflets containing information about different aspects of life with MS, coping with symptoms and other issues. All publications are free and distributed among people living with MS, their families and friends.

Training

We organise specialised workshops, training, conferences for members of our Association in order to help them improve their knowledge and skills, share experiences. We also conduct MS training for health care staff (medical doctors, nurses).

Information Centre

In the framework of our Association we conduct the All-Polish MS Help-Line and MS Information Centre where it is possible to receive information about the disease, its treatment, rehabilitation, as well as psychological and legal advice, recommendations of professional counsellor and order one of many books on MS.

Psychological Help-Line

The Information Centre conducts the first in Poland service of psychological counsellor supporting people living with MS in crisis situations via telephone. We provide free services of qualified psychotherapists in order to meet needs of people living with MS facing limited access to such services (architectural barriers, lack of specialists, high costs of individual therapies).

Advocacy

We have introduced the institution of MS Ombudsman to intervene and counsel in cases of discrimination of people living with MS.

Bank accounts for people living with MS

We facilitate access to pharmacological drugs, treatment and measures to improve quality of live with MS and implement the Program of MS Treatment and Rehabilitation.