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Upcoming Events: National Association for Rights Protection & Advocacy (NARPA) Conference 2012 The Millennium Hotel, Cincinnati, OH ,
Sep 05, 2012; Conference: "Innovative Solutions for Building Recovery With Alternatives to Psychotropic Medications" Hilton Garden Inn, Freeport, Maine,
Sep 20, 2012; Alternatives 2012 Conference Portland, Oregon, USA,
Oct 10, 2012; International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry 2012 Conference Airport Marriot Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,
Nov 01, 2012; Upcoming events…

OPAL

OPAL network is an alliance of groups in Lane County, Oregon that support the voice, empowerment, and self-determination of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. Thanks much to LILA and many other groups for supporting this successful project. You are invited!

An Info Center for Opal Network Meeting Posters & Announcements: Info about Opal Network events, including posters, public service announcements, etc.
Opal launch: Info about the launch of Opal network in May 2007.
Background documents related to Opal Network, including mission: This folder contains basic information about Opal Network such as vision, goals and guidelines.
Learn more about the story of Opal Whiteley herself.: One of the most famous authors to emerge from Lane County was the eccentric child-nature-mystic author Opal Whiteley of Cottage Grove. It's amazing how many people in Lane County don't yet know her unique and amazing story. Here's are some places to start.
The "Opal Social Hour" at LILA Peer Support Club: You are invited to fun, friends and freedom at the "Opal Hour" at the LILA Peer Support Club. Here's the latest info about this fun event with music, refreshments and the latest news about activism to change the mental health system.

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Samantha Johnson, psychiatric survivor, MFI intern

Samantha Johnson is a 22-year-old psychiatric survivor who is interning at the MindFreedom International office. "I was absolutely in disbelief at how the people were treated at the hospital. It was an environment of emotional abuse interspersed with 'treatments' and 'policies' that could be more accurately described as assault. The tragic thing is that there really are some good people working there, but they are unable to provide people with the help they need inside a system that prioritizes profits over people. It might take five years of counseling for someone to truly recover from a mental health crisis, but it takes five minutes to tranquilize them. This is why I started working with MindFreedom. For 25 years MFI has been challenging the mental health system to see us as human beings- to treat us as human beings- through peaceful activism. At MFI we emphasize individual choice, empowerment, and compassion as necessary aspects of a true healing process."

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