Disclaimer As the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) approaches its 20th year in 2026, we also mark eight years of our collective resistance and solidarity through #WhatWENeed. Our annual advocacy campaign reclaims World Mental Health Day as a space to challenge and correct the medical oppression faced by persons with psychosocial […]
About CIC-K and TCI’s #WhatWENeed campaign Championing for Inclusive Communities in Kenya (CIC-K) is a membership, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization registered as an NGO in Kenya since 2022. CIC-K’s mandate is to promote human rights-based advocacy on community inclusion of mental health psychosocial support services for persons with psychosocial disability. CIC-K is a Full Member of
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Disclaimer TCI launched its annual advocacy campaign, #WhatWENeed 2024 on 26th September. 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 campaign, we conduct spotlight
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Disclaimer #WhatWENeed Craftivism Submission #WhatWENeed Craftivism Submission at the TCI Plenary on Community Inclusion by TCI Members
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Disclaimer #WhatWENeed Campaign 2024 TCI launched its annual advocacy campaign, #WhatWENeed, as a response to the Lancet Commission on Mental Health (2018). This report reinforced the stereotypes perpetuated against persons with psychosocial disabilities and put the cause of our exclusion on the ‘lack of treatment of mental disorders’. A concerning trope in these documents, carried
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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Disclaimer #WhatWENeed Campaign 2023 TCI launched its annual advocacy campaign, #WhatWENeed, as a response to the Lancet Commission on Mental Health (2018). This report reinforced the stereotypes perpetuated against persons with psychosocial disabilities and put the cause of our exclusion on the ‘lack of treatment of mental disorders’. A concerning trope in these documents, carried
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.
2025 TCI Country Mission in South Korea Read More 2024 TCI Plenary on Community Inclusion Read More 2023 ALCE International day of persons with disabilities March Read More Observance of World Mental Health Day Read More 2022 A Workshop on Community Inclusion, Sri Lanka Read More Launch of CIC-K Position Paper in a Stakeholder Meeting
We, in TCI, a global OPD of persons with psychosocial disabilities, warmly welcomes the adoption of the Guidelines on De-Institutionalization [DI] including during emergencies by the CRPD committee at the 27th Session. We express gratitude to the Working Group (WG) on DI, the CRPD Committee and their Secretariat team for the tireless work and guidance
