Tag: user led advocacy
How Healthcare Foundations Destroy Grassroots Advocates
We advocates are often told we're the key to progress in mental healthcare. Yet foundations continue to minimize our role and to damage us and our organizations every day. Here is how they do it, and what they need to do if we are ever to make real progress.
The Downfall of Peer Support: Are You Kidding Me?
In April of this year, Sera Davidow authored a blog titled āThe Downfall of Peer Support: MHA & National Certification.ā I do not agree with much of what she says in her blog, and as theĀ viceĀ president of Peer Advocacy, Supports and Services at Mental Health America I'd like to respond.