The Community Development Mental Health Network brings together our members who are concerned with current models of mental health provision and seek the development of emancipatory and human-rights based approaches to mental health. This includes transformative, integrative and empowering adult education and community development approaches to healing, inclusion and mental health.
The vision of this working group is “a society where people are free from coercion, where mental health and wellbeing, and the recognition of both distress and madness, are all valued as central to the interests of the communities in which we live, and where healing, empowerment, inclusion and equality are all celebrated”.
Register your interest at info@cwi.ie
Resources
Vision and Values Community Development Mental Health Network
Pavee Point submission on Review of the Mental Health Act 2001
ILMI submission on the review of the Mental Health Act 2001
Mad Pride, a conversation with John McCarthy
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Mental Health and Community Development – IACD
