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Timeline of MindFreedom Organizational Development
Here are some of the milestones in the organizational development of what has become MindFreedom International.
- 22 December 1986 - Incorporation of originating nonprofit project
with start-up funding from Levinson Foundation. The goal is to publish
a newsletter, Dendron, and provide a "Clearinghouse on Human
Rights and Psychiatry," to help network mental health consumers,
psychiatric survivors, and supporters.
- 15 May 1990 - Publication Dendron sponsors a several-day
international counter-conference and protest of American Psychiatric
Association in New York City called a "Support-In." At end of
counter-conference, 13 initial sponsoring groups form a new coalition.
Mental Patients Liberation Alliance in Syracuse, New York provides
organizational and fiscal sponsorship.
- 8 April 1994 - Coalition is incorporated on its own as two nonprofits: Support Coalition Northwest (based in Oregon) & Support Coalition International, later merged.
- 26 October 1999 - On advice of attorney David Atkin and to streamline operations, SCN and SCI merge.
- 1 August 2005 - Official name change of all activities under one umbrella name of MindFreedom International.
