Japanese psychiatric has been criticized by the international community for lengthy hospitalization of the mentally ill and there is no sign of decreasing. Since 1960's, Kawamuro Kinen (Memorial) Hospital (formerly named Joshinso Kawamuro Hospital) in Joetsu Region made strong commitment to promote rehabilitation of the mentally ill. In order to promote the discharge of the mentally ill from hospitals, it is critical for each psychiatric professional to develop the approach that reaches out to patient's "Kokoro", so that the patients can enjoy being the full member of the community. In 1981, we established a short stay group home, attached to the hospital, and named it Tsukushiso. After training the patients to live as a member of the group home, we were able to move them into the transitional housing. In 1989, we established a non-profit medical-social welfare organization to help patients learn to acquire employment opportunities. The transitional employment training programs created included a bakery workshop, named Tsukushi Kobo. At the employment support program, we emphasized the decentralized functional model of rehabilitation to help the patients learn the work skills in the community. We try to foster acceptance and understanding about the mentally ill among the non-handicapped people in the community, including children, elementary, middle, and high school students. For the purpose of promoting community understanding, we created a slogan, "Seeking understanding Kokoro: Smiling with Round Kokoro" and frequently conduct community events using the slogan. We also created Tsukushi Sunflower Farm, in order to reduce the prejudice and discrimination about the disabled. We succeeded in encouraging ordinary citizens and elementary school children to grow sunflowers. We ask them to provide the seeds to the job-training project, for which the project will give them the sunflower seed oil, produced by the disabled job trainees.
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