Latest News about the Opal Network

Next Opal Network meeting in Lane County:

Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 2:30 pm, at the Eugene Public Library, Tykeson Room. Free.

The Opal Network began in May 2007 as a way to gather everyone quarterly in Lane County, Oregon, who supports the voice and empowerment of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors.

The cross-disability group LILA, a Center for Independent Living, has especially been helpful. MindFreedom Lane County and a number of other organizations have supported this important coalition.

Below you will find info about recent and upcoming Opal Network meetings, as well as a "folder of folders" with information about Opal Network, its background, etc.

Opal Whiteley was a famous author in Lane County, Oregon, who ended up in a psychiatric institution.

Opal Network now offers a workshop nationally on this model: Uniting the cross-disability and mental health consumer/psychiatric survivor communities to mobilize allies for real change in the mental health system. Contact the MindFreedom office for more info.

For background information about the Opal Network itself -- including history, posters, fliers, info about Opal Whiteley and more -- go this folder: