Blogs about: Psychiatric Disabilities
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Challenges Implementing Disability Rights Treaty?
Abdul-Jeff Maalik Makana, the Executive Director of MindFreedom Kenya, wants to learn more about the challenges that other countries experience in implementing the United Nations (UN) Convention on th… more →
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Participate: Help Identify Transportation Initiatives To Promote Community Integration!
naricspotlight wrote 2 weeks ago: The UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration is seeking your help in identifying initiatives aim … more →
Digital Archive Project: New (old) Additions
naricspotlight wrote 1 month ago: We’re nearing the end of Phase II of our digital archive project. In this phase we’re di … more →
Funding Opportunity: 4 NIDRR grant announcements
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naricspotlight wrote 4 months ago: We have a handy alert set up for Grants.gov to let us know when new NIDRR grant announcements have b … more →
NARIC Spotlight: What is "Olmstead" and how does it affect me?
naricspotlight wrote 5 months ago: Today, June 22, is the 10th anniversary of the Olmstead decision, a landmark civil rights case decid … more →
Challenges Implementing Disability Rights Treaty?
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Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 6 months ago: Abdul-Jeff Maalik Makana, the Executive Director of MindFreedom Kenya, wants to learn more about the … more →
Watch it: Webcasts from NIDRR grantees
naricspotlight wrote 7 months ago: Many NIDRR grantees offer free webcasts covering a wide range of topics. Most of these are archived … more →
Work Together: The Higher Education Support Toolkit
naricspotlight wrote 7 months ago: The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation has published a FREE toolkit for disability service provid … more →
NEWS: Bulgarians with Mental Disabilities Suffer Inhumane Treatment
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Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 9 months ago: Geneva, 3 December 2008 On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the World Organisatio … more →
CONFERENCE: World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry General Assembly, Kamapala, Uganda,
Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 10 months ago: [Note a limited number of scholarships for conference participants from developing or low-income cou … more →
PAPER: Disability and Contraception in Developing Countries
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Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 10 months ago: Doctors, social workers, neighbors, and even family members often mistakenly assume that people with … more →
RESOURCE: MindFreedom Kenya Promotes Mental Health Rights
Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 11 months ago: MindFreedom Kenya is an affiliate of MindFreedom International, formed in response to identified gap … more →
UN Terms Forced Psychiatric Treatment Torture--Users and Survivors of Psychiatry Welcomes Report
Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 1 year ago: [Note from We Can Do: The following press release from the Center for the Human Rights of Users and … more →
FUNDING: Campaigns to Ratify, Implement Disability Rights Treaty (CRPD)
Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 1 year ago: Are you a disability rights advocate working in a developing country? Is your organization trying to … more →
Advocacy Organization Exposes Abuse in Paraguayan Psychiatric Hospital
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Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 1 year ago: From Mental Disability Rights International Newsletter: MDRI Exposes Deaths and Abuse in Paraguayan … more →
CONFERENCE: 2nd Intl Forum of the Deaf in Morocco on Mental Health
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Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 1 year ago: The 2nd international Forum of the Deaf The 2nd International Forum of the Deaf in Morocco is an ini … more →
TRAINING: International Diploma in Mental Health Law, Human Rights
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Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 1 year ago: The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced the first ever one-year International Diploma … more →
Read the RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm 2008 on the International Disability Rights Treaty!
Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 1 year ago: From Australia … from the USA … from India … from New Zealand … from Fiji … more →
"Inclusive Livable Communities for People with Psychiatric Disabilities"
Jenn wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a link to a new publication just posted on March 17, 2008 on the National Council on Di … more →
RESOURCE: Implementing the Disability Rights Treaty, for Users, Survivors of Psychiatry
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Andrea Shettle, MSW wrote 1 year ago: The World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) has released a manual that can guide … more →
