NAMI CVA is recruiting veterans to lead a support group for adults with mental health concerns at Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Hospital. This group meets every week in the mental health wing and provides a free support for veterans in our local community that...
Continue ReadingJanet Foner was a mental health liberation activist. She died on July 24. Read it here.
Continue ReadingLearn how treatment and support make it possible for people with serious mental illness (SMI) lived experience manage their disorder and live healthy and rewarding lives.
Continue ReadingA 2017 video created by Pat Deegan PhD & Associates LLC and narrated by Dr. Deegan talks about how “power statements” can “help peers remain ‘peer.’” Power statements are “carefully crafted self-advocacy statements that amplify the voice...
Continue ReadingApply by February 3, 2020 SAMHSA’s 2020 Capacity Building Opportunity will offer intensive individualized consultation, training, and peer-to-peer support for up to 25 peer-run, recovery community, family-run, collegiate recovery, recovery high schools,...
Continue ReadingMad In America writes: “A ‘personal story’ is defined as your story of being in relationship to psychiatry and/or the mental health system, whatever that means to you. It might involve your opinions and analysis of what happened to you, as well. It ...
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