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 […]
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Beyond the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
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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 […]
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 […]
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EC Activities 2019-21
A summary of the council’s activities from May 2019 – March 2021.
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Empowerment Council Activities: 2016/2017
A summary of the Empowerment Council’s activities for the years 2016 and 2017.