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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The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
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EC Activities 2018-19
A summary of the council’s activities in 2018-2019.
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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.