Tag: peer run treatment
Building a Support Network for Peer Workers in NYC
Peer Workers are actively organizing in New York City. This is significant because the mental health system is failing Peer Workers on so many fronts, and itâs long overdue that we start organizing support for ourselves. Peer work started from a social movement on the streets and has ended up a marginalized and co-opted role in a broken system.
Closure of Second Story Worries Local Mental Health Advocates
From Good Times: "The news that Second Story Peer Run Respite HouseâSanta Cruzâs only alternative to inpatient psychiatric hospitalizationâis closing its doors at the...
“Mental Health Bill Caters to Big Pharma and Would Expand Coercive...
Oryx Cohen at TruthOut explains why the "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (HR 2646) - commonly known as the 'Murphy Bill' - appears to cater more closely to the desires of pharmaceutical companies than to the actual needs of people in psychological distress, perhaps because of Murphy's connections to key lobbyists." "If the Murphy Bill is passed, psychiatric hospitals and pharmaceutical companies will reap huge financial benefits as a result of increased hospitalization and forced treatment."
