Starting with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Consent and Capacity Board (CCB) and Ontario Review Board (ORB) hearings moved to electronic hearings. Electronic hearings may work for some service users, but certainly not all. Tribunals have great power to control the lives of people with disabilities, Black and Indigenous people, queer, trans and two-spirited people and […]
A Zine created by Lucy Costa and Lisa Walter, dedicated to exploring the history of service user labour. The topics we cover include: 1. Why service user labour is political: ▪ The historical context ▪ The economic context 2. Identity-based labour and working conditions: ▪ Why linking labour to identity is problematic ▪ Ambiguous definitions of labour▪ Precarious […]
Engaging patients in health care decision making can mean anything from collaborating on treatment plans, to designing waiting areas, to service users creating core policies for hospitals and medical schools. In the past five years, the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto has begun the early stages of collaborating with service users in […]
Research suggests that women with psychiatric disabilities may experience particular sexual health vulnerabilities and a need for associated sexual health services. These vulnerabilities include increased risk of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS; lower rates of contraceptive use; unplanned and unwanted pregnancies; and higher rates of gender-based violence, including childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault and rape […]
Mental Health “Recovery”: Users and Refusers is the final report of a study that asked the question: what do psychiatric survivors in Toronto think about mental health “recovery”? This research recognizes the emergence of “recovery” as the new “talk” of community mental health services not just here but in the United States, the United Kingdom, […]