Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
• Shaun McNeil, Managing Director of Advocacy • Roy Muise, President of the Canadian
Matters (Greater Glasgow), founding member National Network for Mental Health and
and Secretary to the Board of VoX Scotland, and the Chair of the National Consumer
Board Member of the Scottish Independent Advisory Council of the Canadian Mental
Advocacy Alliance. As well as having a lived Health Association, Treasurer of the
experience of mental illness, Shaun has a Council of Canadians with Disabilities and
Mental Health Nurse qualification and a BSc in member of the Canadian Alliance for
Mental Health Practice Mental Illness and Mental Health.
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Gary Platz Jenny Speed
• Gary Platz, Strategic Advisor to the • Jenny Speed is a mental health consumer
activist currently working in Brisbane in the
Wellink Trust of New Zealand, who has
areas of disability advocacy and criminal justice.
established peer run services such as She was formerly the Deputy Director of the
Warmline, Homelink and Key We Way. Australian Mental Health Consumer Network
and has worked in senior positions within the
Queensland and New South Wales public
sector, and in the non-government sector.
RECOVERY RIGHTS
• What does a recovery focussed mental • What would our community look like if
health system look like? everyone’s human rights were recognised
and upheld?
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FORUM OUTCOMES
PROCESS
Recovery
• World Café format, not talking heads • Accept Uncover Discover Connect
• Discussed questions in small groups, then • Self-righting, directed to person not service
shared outcomes in larger group • Accept difference & don’t put me in a box!
• Two aspects to each issue—what would it • Re-establish/Gain a Sense of contribution
be like, and what do we have to do to • Tell our stories, to each other & the world
make it so • ‘uncovering’ our own hearts & voices, recovery is
what we work together to do
• Take personal responsibility to do what we can to
make this happen
FORUM OUTCOMES
LEADERSHIP
Rights
• Charter of rights for the mentally ill • Participatory leadership—shoulder to shoulder,
• Individual budgets—purchase what you like, not one charismatic individual
when you like—from a menu of what’s available • Based on respect and engagement
• For society to embrace rights – look at things • Focus energy in human to human encounters.
through the eyes of the most vulnerable • More advanced, democratic mre effective model
• Would have more choices • Harnesses diversity, build community, create
• Treated as unique individual shared responsibility for action.
• Right care/ wholistic • Deepens individual and collective learning
• To make decisions & mistakes yielding real development and growth
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