Championing inclusive communities in Kenya was once an idea that was mooted by Elizabeth Ombati (Chairperson) and Njoroge Samuel(director)in April 2022 during a Strategic Planning meeting by TCI Global in Bangkok Thailand. Under the TCI Fellowship program, CIC has transited into a national movement advocating for the rights of persons...

TCI’s story of meeting and working with Luke TCI team met the Late Mr. Luke Taveta during a visit to Fiji Islands, in February 2020 and exchanged with the Psychiatric Survivors Association of Fiji (PSA, Fiji). Started in 2004, from the life experiences of Luke, PSA is 18 years old...

Introduction By Elizabeth Ombati, CIC-K Robert is a performing artist, creative, thinker. He composed this poem wanting to narrate the experiences that a dearly loved friend of Robert’s faced. This poem was a winning entry in a poetry competition organized by the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights. In my...

Rituparna Sahoo is a poet, writer and storyteller from Bhubaneswar, India. Her work explores her own ever-changing emotional landscape; her neurodivergence; her state of woundedness ; and her experience of surviving child abuse, family violence, and a flawed and unethical mental health system. Her poems and stories have appeared in...

Jacqui is a member of Liberation (UK) and has shared the following poems for the #WhatWENeed campaign G4 Fucks sake Download Leaving care’s last email Download My heart lies bleeding Download Su-i-[de]cide Download They is mad in asylum Download

The Executive Committee of Nidahas Chinthana Sansadaya – Consumer Action Forum (NCS-CAF) planned a two day workshop at Navajeevana Rehabilitation, Tangalle to promote inclusion of persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disability. This was conducted as part of TCI’s #WhatWENeed 2022 campaign. The objectives of the workshop were: Designing...

Living Association Thailand (LAT): Living Association is a Thailand based organization of persons with psychosocial disabilities and their care givers and supporters. It offers support in recovery, skill development, promotion of opportunity to work and inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities in the community. The organization values the importance of...

In Scotland, UK, deinstitutionalization has been a policy objective, at least since the 1990s, when a ‘care in the community’ policy was introduced. It was within this context the charity Carr Gomm Scotland was established, in 1998, with the main aim of supporting people with disabilities who had been housed...

TCI launched its annual advocacy campaign, #WhatWENeed 2022 on October 10. TCI has been running this campaign since 2018 to challenge and correct the medical oppression against us, persons with psychosocial disabilities, and reclaim World Mental Health day and month by filling it with our voices! As part of the...

Submissions by TCI's Member from UK 'Liberation' and it's members

Liberation is a quite recently formed organisation, led by people with psychosocial disabilities. We operate at a grass roots level. Our aim is to promote full human rights for people with lived experience of mental distress/trauma. This is the term we often use in England for people with psychosocial disabilities.

An opinion piece on the BBC Panorama undercover investigation of the Edenfield Mental Health Care unit, UK