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REJECTED: Oregon Gov. Kulongoski vs. state-wide voice of mental health clients.

Oregon's Governor Ted Kulongoski rejected this proposal from his own mental health system to support the state-wide voice of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors with an office of mental health consumer affairs. Most USA states have some kind of support to encourage the empowerment state-wide of mental health clients. Not Oregon. Gov. Kulongoski met with mental health client organization leaders and pledged support in 2009. But this 2009 proposal was killed by the Governor, and one of its main authors, a leader of Oregon mental health system Bob Nikkel, was transferred out of his job.

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