Does Your Mental Health System Need a Truth Injection?

Here is DRAFT material you may download about a campaign to educate the public, clients and mental health system about common disempowering myths that many mental health agencies are continuing to promote. We look forward to your feedback about these drafts which are MS Word attached files.

August 2008 summary about empowerment in Lane County mental health by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-08-27 12:40

Here is a one-page MS Word summary of "where we're at" in August 2008 when it comes to asking Lane County mental health agencies to put principles in writing about empowerment and choice in the mental health system. Because there is debate about words like guidelines and policies, we'll keep this simple: We're asking for written affirmation of key principles.

DRAFT: Text for a 'truth in mental health system' hand out. by David W. Oaks — last modified 2008-08-27 12:42

We'd like your feedback about the proposed text for this 'truth in mental health' handout. We intend to hand this out to local mental health systems. We ask local agencies to come up with their own written affirmation of the principles reflected in this document.