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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 by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-04-25 12:12
Info about Opal Network events, including posters, public service announcements, etc.
Opal launch by David W. Oaks — last modified 2007-07-08 15:22
Info about the launch of Opal network in May 2007.
Background documents related to Opal Network, including mission by Jeremy Bensman — last modified 2008-07-30 15:42
This folder contains basic information about Opal Network such as vision, goals and guidelines.
Learn more about the story of Opal Whiteley herself. by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-07-30 15:52
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.

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Lauren Tenney, psychiatric survivor activist from New York State

First involuntarily institutionalized, at 15, Lauren Tenney is a survivor of psychiatry. She has been involved with the user and survivor movement since 1992. Her goal is to help stop forced psychiatric procedures, detainment, and confinement, human rights violations, psychiatric abuse and torture. Of particular concern are the elimination of forced electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) on people of all ages, but particularly children and senior citizens, forced drugging, restraints, seclusion, behavioral interventions, and coercion of any kind. Lauren, a Mad-Activist/Artist/Author/Academic/Adjunct Professor is coordinating The Opal Project, an outcome of participatory action research she coordinated for field research in the PhD program in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation topic is: "The Institutionalized "Community." She became involved with WE THE PEOPLE when the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights and MindFreedom International needed someone on the ground in Brooklyn, New York to coordinate a response where Esmin Green was murdered-by-neglect. She now lives in Albany, NY with her service dog-in-training and cat. For more info: www.TheOpalProject.org and www.etrash.tv
 
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