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By Nancy Snider & David Oaks

Coalition Building 101 for Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors: Finding Common Ground with Each Other and Allies Thank you Peerlink National Technical Assistance Center 30 September 2011. By Nancy Snider & David Oaks. Psychiatric survivor Executive Director:

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  1. Coalition Building 101 for Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors: Finding Common Ground with Each Other and Allies Thank you Peerlink National Technical Assistance Center 30 September 2011 By Nancy Snider & David Oaks

  2. Psychiatric survivor Executive Director: MindFreedom International www.MindFreedom.org Board member: Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition United States International Council on Disability Presentation by David W. Oaks

  3. Where Mutual Support Meets Activism The 'gears' of people power!

  4. Draw on the Strengths of Our ALLIES And EACH OTHER to Empower Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors Build your coalitions!

  5. Coalitions types are diverse, like YOU! • Local, state, national, international? • Informal and short term? Ad hoc network? • Formal, with incorporation, dues? • Bottom line: "Group of groups" Takes all types!

  6. Informal Local Coalition in our Lane County in Oregon: What is the Opal Network? And who was Opal Whiteley anyway? Opal Whiteley

  7. A state-wide story: Amplifying the voice of Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition (OCSC) Oregon's Story

  8. Who are we? OCSC: Consumer/Survivors

  9. An informal coalition in a “nutshell”: • What's story of the psychiatric survivor AND mental health consumer movement? Consumer/Survivors United

  10. Formal coalition: National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery OCSC represents Oregon in NCMHR

  11. http://www.mindfreedom.org MindFreedom International is a coalition celebrating our 25th year for human rights and humane alternatives. Independent. United. Activism.

  12. The United States International Council on Disabilities is a federation of US-based non-governmental organizations, federal agencies and individuals committed to advocacy and action on behalf of the global disability rights agenda. USIC Board President Marca Bristo USICD: Council as type of “coalition”

  13. Who has helped build bridges between "cross disability" and psychiatric rights? Historic informal coalition!

  14. Rae Unzicker & Justin Dart

  15. Judi Chamberlin

  16. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. It may well be that our world is in dire need of a new organization: "The International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment." Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  17. MindFreedom Ghana

  18. Survivor of Electroshock In Accra Psychiatric Institution In Ghana Global Emergency

  19. Turkish Consumer/Survivors

  20. Pune, India activist Bhargavi Davar, PhD Concern about globalization of western psychiatric industry

  21. Graduate students. This intern started MindFreedom Academic Alliance Piers Gooding (Melbourne Australia)

  22. Historians This is an activist and one of the founders of Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto Geoffrey Reaume, PhD

  23. Psychologist. New director of International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry (ISEPP). Board member MFI. Al Galves, PhD, of New Mexico

  24. Mother power!

  25. What are a few "measurable outcomes" from collaboration between allies? Accomplishments!

  26. The uniting of cross disabilities and psychaitric survivor survivor issues builds on the "wins" of other movements Movements rolling together.

  27. Advocates & Consumers! Olmstead v. L.C. 1999 US Supreme Court • Sue Jamieson (attorney) • Elaine Wilson (middle) • Lois Curtis (right) Olmstead victory

  28. National Council on Disability “blueprint” in 2000: • Mental health systems need to be voluntary • Give rights to those with psychiatric labels • Treatment should = healing, not punishment • Make consumer/survivor-driven alternatives to traditional mental health systems a priority NCD Executive Summary

  29. Rights? What rights? The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 2006 Coalitions in United Nations

  30. Decide. • Act. • Win. • Grow Community Organizing: Recycle!

  31. A Few MindFreedom Campaigns: Shield: Alerts and Our Own Media Global: UN, Handbook and Training Choice: Alternatives for Mental Health Mad Pride: Celebrate Our Diversity Coalition: Affiliates and Sponsors Electroshock & Human Rights Initiative Unite to Win

  32. Easy Local Coalition-Building Activities: • Meet with a decision-maker • Panels or speaker • Brainstorm and speak out • Show a relevant video • Informal "meet up" What will be your origin story?

  33. Far, far more Mental Health Peer Delivered Services in mental health! An OCSC-building goal!

  34. Nothing About Us Without Us! Common core concern

  35. Respecting individual choice on medication • Finding more alternatives • Employment issues • Housing problems Choice in Mental Health

  36. Robert Whitakerauthor of Anatomy of an Epidemic

  37. Warning: Red Rubber Nose! Patch Adams & Gesundheidt

  38. Our local coalition meeting with the mayor Consumer/Survivors

  39. Greetings from Oregon's OCSC: We are a Movement!

  40. What is one specific step you can take toward coalition building in the next few days or weeks? What Can You Do?

  41. Email: Presenter David Oaks: oaks@mindfreedom.org OCSC at: oregon.united@gmail.com Google: Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition MindFreedom International Project Able National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery USICD Thank you: Peerlink National Technical Assistance Center To reach some of the resources mentioned...

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