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Arts KC Inspiration Award
Winner 2009
Charlotte Street Foundation
Exhibiting Artist 2009, 2010
Creative Capital Professional Development Alumnus |
Mental health civil rights has grown bigger than me I’m going to shift the focus on CorinnaWest.com to share more personal stories about bicycling across country, being an Olympic athlete, living in one of the best arts communities in the world, and my own recovery realizations. I’ve now created a Wellness Workworks.com site. The business . . . → Read More: Mental Health Civil Rights moving to Wellness Wordworks Successful examples of peer run programs in the United States that create complete mental health recovery Ron Unger explains that many people have come to understand complete mental health recovery as being something like, “Doing OK while still being sick.” He says that many organization are working to water down the definition of recovery. Instead, . . . → Read More: 10 model programs to create complete mental health recovery Certified peer specialists like Mandi Kinder are key to our mental health design principles A social entrepreneurship seeing the very poor as customers using 12 mental health design principles People with disabilities in the United are the poorest of all minority groups. People with mental health diagnoses are the poorest of all people with . . . → Read More: Mental health design principles Building a all peer delivered mental health social entrepreneurship Amy Smith from Clear Minds, Inc in Denver, a potential mental health social entrepreneurship help people safely discontinue psychiatric medication Mental health social entrepreneurship is the idea that a business can be designed to provide social good. Social entrepreneurships range from non-profits that have some . . . → Read More: The future of mental health social entrepreneurship Help volunteer for Wellness Wordworks to build a revolution in social justice I’ve been trying to build my own business with just a few folks asked to volunteer for Wellness Wordworks. Now I’m at the point where I have to decide to keep it a lifestyle business that just pays my salary or to make . . . → Read More: Volunteer for Wellness Wordworks Reframing the disease model vs. the distress model of “mental illness” Peer specialist Christian Wade and MindFreedom member Delores Jankovich talking about social messaging like the disease model vs. the distress model for "mental illness" My friend Ken Braiterman, who is also the chairman of the board for my business, writes a blog about . . . → Read More: The Distress Model of “Mental Illness”  5 comments  Mental health civil rights  bipolar illness recovery, distress model of mental illness, empowerment in mental health, grassroots advocacy, mental health reform, mental health revolution, mental health social messging, Please Cut our Budgets, psychiatric medication discon, recovery model of mental illness, schizophrenia recovery Opening Plenarary Session More about my mental health social media business. I just returned from the National Health Care Messaging and Media conference. I got a scholarship from SAMHSA to attend based on my mental health social media skills and work with two different states. Right now my biggest program, Poetry for Personal Power, . . . → Read More: The future of mental health social media #mhsm Description of evidence base and rationale for social media campaign: Please cut our budgets! We’ll tell you how. Lots of references and citations. . . . → Read More: Please cut our budget! We’ll tell you how. 14 comments Mental health civil rights antipsychotics, budget cuts, childhood bipolar illness, crisis alternatives, evidence based medicine, good clinical practice, hope, medication discontinuance, mental health cost savings, mental health recovery, peer support, pharmaceutical science, psychiatric disability, psychiatric medication withdraw, schizophrenia, state mental health department, state mental hospitals Mental health advocacy training is good, but whose agenda are we advocating for? David Oaks, the director of Mind Freedom international pointed this out during a national SAMHSA conference call on the history of the consumer movement: ”Every year they [mental health providers] trot us out to use our stories to ask for money so their programs don’t . . . → Read More: My priorities for mental health advocacy Give NAMI’s survey your true recovery experiences. I want people to know that emotional distress is temporary and transformative and people completely exit the mental health system. . . . → Read More: Tell NAMI about Un-Diagnosing Emotional Distress Leave a comment Mental health civil rights Abilify, antipsychotics, atypical antipsychotics, complete recovery from mental illness, Corinna West, emotional distress, encouragement, Geodon, hope, medication discontinuance, NAMI-KS, personal power, pharmaceutical influence, psychosis recovery, resiliency, schizophrenia, spoken work poetry |
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