Info Here’s a sample flyer from one of the successful AMPLIFY workshops, this one in Portland, Oregon in August 2011. amplify-pdx-flyer-201108.pdf — PDF document, 971Kb Document Actions Print this
Info Document Actions Print this Justin Dart is considered the “Father of the Americans With Disabilities Act,” and was also a key bridge builder in connecting the cross-disability movement, and the psychiatric survivor/mental health consumer movement. One of his last speeches was in front of the major annual meeting of the National Council on Independent…
Info AMPLIFY began in the State of Oregon as a way to help with implementation under the Olmstead US Supreme Court decision. Here is a letter (PDF) of strong support from the State of Oregon’s mental health system to the founding funders, Bazelon Center, one of the largest mental health advocacy agencies in the USA.…
Info The AMPLIFY training unites mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, with allies, especially in the cross-disability movement. AMPLIFY has been given successfully throughout Oregon, plus in Ghana (see photo), Africa and Mexico City. Here’s how YOU can bring it to your area. Here’s your chance to bring an exciting training to your community…
Info The AMPLIFY training unites mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, with allies, especially in the cross-disability movement. AMPLIFY has been given successfully throughout Oregon, plus in Ghana (see photo), Africa and Mexico City. Here’s how YOU can bring it to your area. Here’s your chance to bring an exciting training to your community…
Info The AMPLIFY training unites mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, with allies, especially in the cross-disability movement. AMPLIFY has been given successfully throughout Oregon, plus in Ghana (see photo), Africa and Mexico City. Here’s how YOU can bring it to your area. Here’s your chance to bring an exciting training to your community…
Info Here’s the handout used for the Portland, Oregon AMPLIFY workshop on mental health consumers/psychiatric survivors building on the strength of the cross-disability movement. amplify-201108-pdx-handouts.doc — Microsoft Word Document, 103Kb Document Actions Print this
Info Bjo Ashwill from LILA CIL and David Oaks, director of MindFreedom International, co-presented an AMPLIFY workshop in Portland Oregon in August 2011. Here’s their PowerPoint. amplify-201108-pdx.ppt — Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, 2505Kb Document Actions Print this
Info The psychiatric survivor/mental health consumer movement — also known as ‘mad movement’ — accelerated in the early 1970’s at about the same time as the general cross-disability movement that addresses concerns of all people who end up with some type of disability label. The social change movement led by psychiatric survivors and mental health…
Info MindFreedom joins other disability rights group in speaking out to oppose how nine-year-old Ashley, who has intellectual and physical disabilities, is being given drugs to minimize her height and weight. Ashley X MindFreedom International joins the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), ADAPT, the Feminist Response in Disability Activism (FRIDA) and numerous other…