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The plank reports from the First National Summit of Mental Health Consumers and Survivors, held in Portland, Ore., from August 26 through 29, 1999, are once again available on the Clearinghouse Web site! Also available are the reports from Summit 2000 and from the Dialogue Sessions at Alternatives 2001. Just click on Publications on the Clearinghouse Web site and scroll down for the links.
To refresh your memories, the goal of the first Summit was to develop consensus around the issues of greatest concern to consumers and survivors and create action plans for future work. Attendees played an active part in developing the planks, on the topics of Advocacy, Organizing, Force and Coercion, Financing, Alternative Services, Recovery, Stigma, Community Support Systems, Research, Forensic Issues, Multicultural Issues, and Social Accountability.
To follow up, the Clearinghouse hosted Summit 2000, to which it invited the leaders of key mental health advocacy organizations to respond to the work that had been done in Portland. Justin Dart, Jr., best remembered as the father of the Americans with Disabilities Act, was only one of a stellar roster of speakers at this event.
The next year, Alternatives 2001 (hosted by the Clearinghouse in Philadelphia) included "dialogue" sessions on the plank topics.
As you may be aware, the National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations recently joined the national debate on mental health policy. Stay tuned….
posted by Susan Rogers
To refresh your memories, the goal of the first Summit was to develop consensus around the issues of greatest concern to consumers and survivors and create action plans for future work. Attendees played an active part in developing the planks, on the topics of Advocacy, Organizing, Force and Coercion, Financing, Alternative Services, Recovery, Stigma, Community Support Systems, Research, Forensic Issues, Multicultural Issues, and Social Accountability.
To follow up, the Clearinghouse hosted Summit 2000, to which it invited the leaders of key mental health advocacy organizations to respond to the work that had been done in Portland. Justin Dart, Jr., best remembered as the father of the Americans with Disabilities Act, was only one of a stellar roster of speakers at this event.
The next year, Alternatives 2001 (hosted by the Clearinghouse in Philadelphia) included "dialogue" sessions on the plank topics.
As you may be aware, the National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations recently joined the national debate on mental health policy. Stay tuned….
posted by Susan Rogers
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