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 […]
Meaningful Engagement Leadership
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.
In December 2020, the Empowerment Council Executive Director published an article on the working relationship of a service user organisation with police and mental health services. A digital version of this article originally published in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing can be accessed from the Wiley Online Library. The Library provides online access for […]
This report includes an overview of the Safewards Model of Care and an explanation of how it is being piloted in Ontario forensic mental health facilities in response to the rise of serious incidents and charges under Ontario’s Ministry of Labour. It offers reflections on successes and opportunities for improvements in response to how staff […]
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 […]