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,…
A legislative measure known as Proposition 1 will soon be up for vote in California in the US on the state’s March 5th, 2024 ballot. We at MindFreedom International stand with Cal Voices and Disability Rights California in opposing this proposition on the grounds that it facilitates coercive psychiatric treatment and fails to adequately address…
About This Event • Date: Wednesday, March 6th 2024 • Time: 3:00 PM Pacific | 4:00 PM Mountain | 5:00 PM Central | 6:00 PM Eastern & Atlantic Standard | 6:00 AM Eastern Australia | 7:00 PM Brazil Standard | 11:00 PM UK • Platform: Zoom • Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82375518189 About the Topic From SAFE‘s…
Join us for the first Judi’s Room of 2024 Detroit Peer Respite and the Kiva Centers, Different Models with the Same End: Centering People with Lived Experience to Support Individuals in Distress Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 3 PM PST Registration is required. Despite experiencing recent reductions in staff, MindFreedom International will continue to host…
– Join us for the last Judi’s Room of 2023 – Challenging the Broken Guardianship System Wednesday, December 6, 2023 3:00 PM Pacific 4:00 PM Mountain 5:00 PM Central 6:00 PM Eastern & Atlantic Standard 6 AM Eastern Australia, 12 PM Hawaii, 7 PM Brazil Standard, 11 PM in Ireland & UK Pre-registration is required.…
— Join us for Judi’s Room — Featuring Special Guest Jim Gottstein* “Reinventing the Mental Health System from a Pipeline Drugging Millions Indefinitely to Giving People Hope Through People, Place, and Purpose” Wednesday, October 4, 2023 3:00 PM Pacific 4:00 PM Mountain 5:00 PM Central 6:00 PM Eastern 6 AM Eastern Australia, 12 PM Hawaii,…
“D” is a visionary, community organizer and coach, living in Lahaina, Maui. He is also a MindFreedom International member and a disabled Black trauma survivor. In 2016, he was catastrophically injured in a car accident involving an Uber driver. The accident severed his spine, and despite several reconstructive surgeries, he was left with chronic pain,…
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 — Join us for Judi’s Room — Featuring Special Guest Robert Whitaker Interviewing Our invited panelists Vesper Moore Keris Myrick Clare Cortright On the Topic Everyone Is Talking About: “C.A.R.E. COURTS” Wednesday, September 6, 2023 3:00 PM Pacific 4:00 PM Mountain 5:00 PM Central 6:00 PM Eastern…
First Wednesday is almost here! — Join us for Judi’s Room – “MADPRIDE Revolution in Mental Health –– Bridging Age & Other Marginalizations” Wednesday, August 2 , 2023 3:00 PM Pacific 4:00 PM Mountain 5:00 PM Central 6:00 PM Eastern 6 AM Eastern Australia, 12 PM Hawaii, 7 PM Brazil Standard, 11 PM in…
Lar L. is an enrolled Shield member who is being psychiatrically incarcerated. She wants to live independently in the community without the threat of being forcibly drugged. She has had horrible traumatizing past experiences of being over-medicated and sedated. Currently, she is in a restricted psychiatric facility called Antelope House and she is being subjected…