Recognizing the lack of political will is crucial in framing a theory of change for mental health care reform, especially when challenging entrenched systems like capitalism, colonialism, and psychiatry. This necessitates strategies that work both outside traditional political structures and within them to catalyze cultural and systemic change, driven by communities rather than waiting for […]
I have a friend, a young man with a psychosocial disability, who spent a considerable amount of his life in a prayer center. (You may call it a detention center because often time when families take their loved ones there, the expectation is that they are staying there for an unknown period.). My friend is
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The Initiative of Youth with Disabilities of Boka (IYDB -IMI Boke is implementing the project “Deinstitutionalization of Persons with Mental Disabilities in Kotor”. Click here to read more about the project: https://imiboke.me/all-news/deinstitucionalizacija-osoba-sa-mentalnim-invaliditetom-u-kotoru. Within the project, Collection and Analysis of Official Data on (non)existing Resources for the Deinstitutionalization of Persons with Mental Disabilities has been conducted,
As we enter the 22nd century, disability continues to pose a serious challenge to human rights because there remains a societal perception of people with disabilities as burdens, individuals who are unable to be equal to other individuals and are frequently denied the right to participate in the general school system and the workplace, live
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Escaping the Shackles Cathy Wield Living Library ProjectMary Nettle Speak Out Against Psychiatry Manifesto WWN- Liberation Submission Dorothy Gould DNS International CRPD FIR GBR Liberation Presentation for CRPD Committee – 28th August 2023 Oral Presentation Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law in the UK
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Introduction: A person experiencing mental distress is considered a burden to the family. On the other hand, unawareness and stigma makes many families hide their member consumers, preventing them from taking support or psychosocial assistance. In 2009, Nidahas Chinthana Sansadaya – NCS, (Consumer Action Forum), with the technical and financial assistance and expertise from Laymen’s
Women and girls with psychosocial disability are denied their rights of sexual and reproductive in different ways; Women and girls with psychosocial disability are forced to engage in sexual activities without their will. For example, unfaithful men force women and girls with psychosocial disabilities when they are in a severe situation. As they are in
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Deinstitutionalization Content of Law on De-institutionalization: In today’s world persons with psychosocial disabilities have the right to enjoy life while accessing services like other human beings in society, in line with the SDGs and the UNCRPD, both of which tools base their approaches on the human rights-based method which emphasizes the social model as opposed
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WHAT WE NEED Inclusive social protection: We need policies and programmes that are designed to understand the ways persons with psychosocial and invisible disability’s function and participate in their communities Community support: Persons with psychosocial disabilities require support to be integrated into their communities to enable them to participate in activities meanifully and to have
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I recently had a great opportunity courtesy of TCI Global to accompany a team made up of leaders within the movement of persons with psychosocial disabilities on an exploratory mission in Tanzania and Rwanda. The leaders included us from Kenya, colleagues from Uganda, Pakistan, India, Indonesia and Nepal. It was a great moment meeting peers
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