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Our Place Newsletters
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- Feature article: Vrinda Edan on 'What do we mean when we talk about LEADERSHIP?' (reprinted due to an error in an earlier edition),
- Interview: Kim Koop, CEO of VicServ (Victorian Peak Umbrella Group of NGO PDRS services),
- Introducing a CDI: Madeleine Kelly's Two Trees Media,
- Consumer Research: Wanda Bennetts on Consumer Workforce Research: 'Real Lives, Real Jobs' - Developing Good Practice Guidelines for a Sustainable Consumer Workforce in the Mental Health Sector, through Participatory Research,
- News: National Scoping Study ... Consumers Speak,
- Our Consumer Place Update: what we have been up to (pamphlet project),
- Words from a Newbee: Paul on 'Through the eyes of a 'Newbee' to consumer stuff'.
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- Soap Box: 'Moving beyond the era of REPRESENTATION"
- Feature Article: Simon Champ on 'A few reflections on change and ways forward',
- Interview: Peter Beresford, Chair of Shaping our Lives, the independent national service user controlled organisation and network in the UK,
- Introducing a CDI: Allan Pinches, Consumer Consultant on the 'hope springs' community at Heidelberg West Uniting Church,
- Creative: Simon Champ poem 'Let Us Spray',
- Our Consumer Place Update: what we have been up to (Pamphlet project, Intentional Peer Support training, networking) and 'Thumbs up, Thumbs down' (an assortment of things we like and don't like).
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- Soap Box [formerly "State of the Nation"]: Sandy Watson on 'Mark of Shame,' a critique of 'stigma',
- Feature article: Vrinda Edan on 'What do we mean when we talk about LEADERSHIP?' (NOTE: correct version is reprinted in edition 4),
- Interview: Sylvia Caras, www.peoplewho.org,
- Introducing a CDI: the Private Mental Health Consumer Carer Network (Australia),
- Consumer Research: Lei Ning on the Consumer and Carer Experience project (Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council Consumer Research and Evaluation Unit project),
- Tech Corner: Sara Clarke on using email,
- Stories from the Trenches: Mark Lacey on Working as a regional/rural consumer consultant,
- Ideas you can nurture: Sara Clarke on Advance Directives,
- Our Consumer Place Update: what Our Consumer Place has been up to (networking, an example of a CDI we've supported to start up, training plans), 'Thumbs up, Thumbs down' (an assortment of things we like and don't like), feedback, corrections and how to contact Our Consumer Place.
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- Soapbox [formerly "State of the Nation"]: 'Is Mental Health Legislation Discriminatory?'
- Feature article: Isabell Collins on 'Truth, morality and defensive reasoning in psychiatry'
- Interview: Shery Mead, (amongst other things) teaches peer-run alternatives to crisis services
- Introducing a CDI: Sara Clarke on Online Groups
- Consumer Research: Nicci Wall on 'Glimpses: A compilation of uncensored real life experiences with Mental Illness.'
- Stories from the Trenches: Except from Alvina Hill's 'To Dance Across the Heavens - a personal journey through mental illness'
- Ideas you can nurture: The supermarket manager and late night shelve stockers
- Our Consumer Place Update: How Our Consumer Place began, how to find us (including by public transport), 'Thumbs up, Thumbs down' (an assortment of things we like and don't like) and a feedback form - what do YOU want from us?
New Resource: Real Lives, Real Jobs
This very important consumer research gives an up to date snapshot of the environments and expectations surrounding consumer worker roles in the mental health field across the state.The report identifies both the the potential for the consumer workforce and some of the associated issues and challenges.
This is a must read for consumers currently working in the mental health sector, consumers who want to know more about these roles, and for service managers and anyone with an interest in continuing to develop and promote consumer worker roles and consumer leadership.
Download a copy here.