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 […]
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 […]
A guide for communities who are considering working with researchers. by Jennifer Chambers and Melissa Legge