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DE-INSTITUTIONALIZATION & SELF DETERMINATION
Under the 21st Century Cares Act, mental health treatment has been steered in the direction of re-institutionalization, while many clinicians and mental health service users are coming to understand the importance of deinstitutionalizing ourselves and building communities and movements based on self-determination. We believe the people who have personally suffered from the effects of a dysfunctional system have an integral role to play, not only in changing how the system functions, but using their hard earned wisdom to evolve the nature of society itself.
In this class we create a space to share the ways we’ve collectively learned how to take care of ourselves and free our bodies, minds and souls. We will help students build and foster confidence, critical thinking, and interpersonal communication skills during challenging times. We will touch on the modern history of alternatives, coercion and ways it has been prevalent in traditional mental health treatment and beyond, and concrete ways people who have been diagnosed with mental illness have chosen, both individually and collectively, to foster self-determination. Through a mix of skill-sharing, collective brainstorming, creative story-telling, theater, art making, and breath/mindfulness practices, our class will be guided through a reflective process to develop greater personal wellness and collective transformation. Each participant will collaborate with the group to begin a personalized “Transformative Mutual Aid Practice” booklet - a personal “map” of wellness strategies, resilience practices and collective resources.
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Presenters
Sascha Altman DuBrul, MSW