Event Details • Date: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 • Time: 6 PM Eastern • Platform: Zoom • Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82375518189 About the Conversation The federal Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Act was enacted in the United States to ensure, among other things, that “the rights of individuals with mental illness are…
MindFreedom Shield The MindFreedom Shield Volunteer Project has gotten off to a roaring start, far exceeding expectations. Due to our inability to provide sufficient staffing, we were not timely handling inquiries and requests that could have possibly developed into a full-blown MindFreedom Shield Alert. This has fundamentally changed, with new inquiries/requests being responded to in…
We Won! May 29, 2024. It is a perhaps a stretch to say we won, but William was ordered freed after the hearing at which at least 15 MindFreedom Shield supporters of William attended by Zoom. Unlike most lawyers in these cases, starkly demonstrated by the ones before William’s, Tamara Barney did a terrific job…
Event Details Topic: When calling for help gets you killed Date: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 Time: 3 PM Pacific | 4 PM Mountain | 5 PM Central | 6 PM Eastern & Atlantic | 6 AM Eastern Australia | 7 PM Brazil | 11 PM UK Platform: Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82375518189 About the Conversation Jared,…
Update: Revised Bill Passes April 8, 2024. The amended bill passed both the House and the Senate on April 3rd and the Governor signed it on April 8th. It is set to go into effect July 1st. Update: Not Dead Yet? March 28, 2024. There was a series of procedural moves resulting in an amendment…
Update: March 21st, 2024 Latest News 1. Positive developments In response to a series of emails addressed to the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) and their Adult Clinical Community Services (ACCS), in which And Steiner (pronouns: it/its) and its many advocates expressed concern about DMH’s plans to forcibly and prematurely discharge And…
You’re invited to join us for the third Judi’s Room of 2024! Event Details • Topic: A conversation about involuntary commitment with Rob Wipond • Date: Wednesday, April 3rd 2024 • Time: 3 PM Pacific | 4 PM Mountain | 5 PM Central | 6 PM Eastern & Atlantic Standard | 6 AM Eastern Australia…
New Board Members We have two new Board members: Dina Tyler in California and Kristina “KK” Kapp in Ohio. Dina Tyler is an individual and family counselor in private practice. She specializes in extreme states of consciousness often labeled as psychosis or mania. Using breathwork, she trains family members, supporters, and providers to compassionately hold…
Monirul, a member of MindFreedom International who lives in Bangladesh, has created a new website called MindfulRights at https://www.mindfulrights.rf.gd in order to promote human rights in various fields in Bangladesh including mental health care and to raise public awareness of related issues within the country. Although the site is still a work in progress, it…
Shield Program We are working on two active Shield campaigns: 1. Dawn Dziuba (pronouns: she/her) is an attorney who has been forcibly held at Forensic Treatment Center South in St. Louis, Missouri for nine years. She believed that her colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis were unlawfully using federal funds and blew the whistle,…