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5th Meeting of Opal Network in Lane County, Oregon
The "Opal Network" in Lane County, Oregon supports the voice and self-determination of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. All are welcome. Agencies involved with mental health, along with all interested mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, are encouraged to send a representative.
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Apr 29, 2008 from 03:00 PM to 05:00 PM |
| Where | Bascom-Tykeson Room, Eugene Public Library, Eugene, Oregon, USA |
| Contact Name | Bjo |
| Contact Phone | (541) 607-7020 |
| Attendees |
All are welcome. |
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The Opal Network*
We are a Lane County network to support the voice, self-determination and empowerment of mental health clients. Join us! All are welcome.
When: 2 pm to 4 pm
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The main Bascom-Tykeson Meeting Room at the
Eugene Public Central Library
100 W. 10th Ave., Eugene, Oregon, USA
We invite all agencies & organizations that work in the mental health field in Lane County to send representatives to this meeting. We especially encourage mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors to attend and join in!
Special guest at this meeting: Steve Williamson will narrate a brief slide show about the life of Opal Whiteley, one of Lane County's most famous psychiatric survivors and authors. Steve is at the University of Oregon and has research Opal's life for years. We are all Opal!
For information about Steve's work about Opal Whitely at the University of Oregon see:
http://intersect.uoregon.edu/opal/
For more information about Steve's work regarding Opal Whiteley see:
http://www.efn.org/~opal/
After this presentation you can hear news, discuss and plan how we can all unite to support people diagnosed with a psychiatric disability in Lane County to address:
*** discrimination
*** human rights
*** the need for alternatives
*** advocacy
*** homelessness
*** police training
*** public education and other concerns.
Free event. Snacks are involved. Wheelchair accessible. Sign language interpreter if given 72 hours notice.
Co-sponsoring groups so far include:
United Way 100% Access Alternatives Subcommittee
Lane Independent Living Alliance (LILA)
City of Eugene Subcommittee on Human Rights and Mental Health
Laurel Hill Center Client Council
ShelterCare
MindFreedom Lane County
Lane County Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Advisory Council
OFSN
Life & Universe
White Bird
Trauma Healing Project
SAFE/Wonderland
Center for Family Development
Direction Service and Siuslaw Outreach Services.
For more info, email bjoashwill@lilaoregon.org or call Bjo at 607-7020
*This new alliance in Lane County is named after Opal Whiteley (1897 - 1992). Opal was a famous author with a psychiatric diagnosis who lived in Lane County.
