Starting with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Consent and Capacity Board (CCB) and Ontario Review Board (ORB) hearings moved to electronic hearings. Electronic hearings may work for some service users, but certainly not all. Tribunals have great power to control the lives of people with disabilities, Black and Indigenous people, queer, trans and two-spirited people and […]
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 […]
A summary of the council’s activities in 2018-2019.
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 […]
A summary of the council’s activities from May 2019 – March 2021.