The Power of Peers: How to Advocate Effectively on the Individual and Systems Level

With advocacy skills, individuals with lived experience of mental health conditions can protect their own and others’ rights, combat discrimination and prejudice, and become catalysts for systems change. This presentation, by a longtime national leader of the consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x) movement for social justice, will cover self-advocacy and systems advocacy skills. 

Joseph Rogers' presentation at Alternatives 2013 - December 4, 2013

PowerPoint Presentation

Community Inclusion Voice Clips

The Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion is seeking volunteers to record 60- to 90-second voice clips about their experiences in becoming a part of their communities, including challenges, supports, and satisfactions. The clips will be used in the seventh course – “The Principles and Practices of Community Inclusion” – of the Collaborative’s College of Recovery and Community Inclusion, an online educational program for mental health practitioners. For more information, please click here.

“Can We Work Together for Change?” – Presentation by Joseph Rogers

Click Here for the presentation by Joseph Rogers, chief advocacy officer, Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, at the 65th APA Institute on Psychiatric services, Oct. 10, 2013. The presentation covers a brief history of the c/s/x movement and the importance of movement values – such as self-determination, choice and empowerment – in recovery. The presentation also covers the right to refuse as well as Assisted Outpatient Treatment. Joseph Rogers gave this presentation on a panel with Jeffrey Geller, M.D., M.P.H., professor of psychiatry and director of public sector psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; and Carol Caruso, executive director of NAMI PA Montgomery County.

History of the C/S/X (Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient) Movement and Creativity and Recovery

PowerPoint presentation by Susan Rogers, Director of The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse.

The history of the consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement for social justice is rich and diverse, and the arts have played a key role. This presentation covers some of the history, along with providing some information about the importance of creativity to the recovery of many individuals.

It was presented to a Temple University class in the Psychology Department on September 10, 2013.

NASMHPD - The Waterfall Effect: Transformative Impacts of Medicaid Expansion on States

Joel E. Miller, Christy Lentz, Narges Maududi and Justin Harding. 
January 2013
132 pp.
"This is the first report that attempts to show in a graphic way the potential impact of several events under the Medicaid expansion that have cascading effects on state budgets, state economies and the uninsured problem."

SAMHSA: Your Tool Kit for Community Conversations about Mental Health

"The Toolkit for Community Conversations About Mental Health is designed to support communities interested in holding conversations about mental health using consistent information and approaches. It includes three parts: an Information Brief, a Discussion Guide, and a Planning Guide. The toolkit will help communities and individuals start a conversation about mental health and help identify innovative and creative next steps to address the mental health needs of our Nation."

http://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USSAMHSA/bulletins/84b053

Separate and Unequal - A Report of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee

After Year-Long Investigation, Senate HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin Releases Report Showing ADA’s Promise of Integration is Not Being Met for Many Americans with Disabilities - July 18, 2013

http://www.help.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=909ecec1-4c87-4891-8314-7b35e5316a35&groups=Chair&utm_source=7.31.13Key+Principles+PR&utm_campaign=7.31.13KeyPrinciples&utm_medium=email

Community Integration for People with Disabilities

"Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law unveiled a set of consensus principles reflecting the disability community's shared vision of community integration. Community Integration for People with Disabilities: Key Principles, lays out a vision in which people with disabilities are afforded opportunities to live in their own homes, work in regular, non-segregated employment, and make their own choices."