One of the first priorities of the Empowerment Council was to partner with The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to create a Bill of Client Rights. The Empowerment Council created the bill in collaboration with CAMH through a series of back-and-forth consultations between CAMH clients and managers. After considerable negotiations with CAMH, the […]
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Graphic models of degrees of engagement by Arnstein and Health Canada. Found in the report Effective Consumer Voice and Participation for New Zealand: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.
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Resolving Individual Issues
Your experiences with the mental health or addition systems or police can inform the Empowerment Council who will try to make organizational changes that will benefit you and others. Your input directs the kind of changes we seek from these organizations. Unfortunately, we are not resourced to address these issues individually. For individual help you […]
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Newsletter Archive
View our past issues of the Empowerment Report, the Empowerment Council’s newsletter, started in 2009. Edited by Beth Jacob. Click on a text below to open the selected Newsletter as a PDF document. PDFs open in a new tab. 2018 Newsletter 2017 Newsletters 2016 Newsletters 2015 Newsletters 2014 Newsletters 2013 Newsletters 2012 Newsletters 2011 Newsletters 2010 Newsletters […]
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The Empowerment Council 25th Anniversary
Celebrating 25 Years of Engagement & Advocacy The struggle to recognize, and respect the voices and rights of people who use services has been a long road. While we are now in the midst of new legislative calls for patient engagement, the truth is that service users have been politically engaged and participating for many […]