1. By Nancy Snider & David Oaks Coalition Building 101 for Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors: Finding Common Ground with Each Other and Allies Thank you Peerlink National Technical Assistance Center 30 September 2011

2. Presentation by David W. Oaks Psychiatric survivor Executive Director: MindFreedom International www.MindFreedom.org Board member: Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition United States International Council on Disability

3. The 'gears' of people power! Where Mutual Support Meets Activism

4. Build your coalitions! Draw on the Strengths of Our ALLIES And EACH OTHER to Empower Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors

5. Takes all types! Coalitions types are diverse, like YOU! Local, state, national, international? Informal and short term? Ad hoc network? Formal, with incorporation, dues? Bottom line: "Group of groups"

6. Opal Whiteley Informal Local Coalition in our Lane County in Oregon: What is the Opal Network? And who was Opal Whiteley anyway?

7. Oregon's Story A state-wide story: Amplifying the voice of Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition (OCSC)

8. OCSC: Consumer/Survivors Who are we?

9. Consumer/Survivors United An informal coalition in a “nutshell”: What's story of the psychiatric survivor AND mental health consumer movement?

10. OCSC represents Oregon in NCMHR Formal coalition: National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery

11. http://www.mindfreedom.org MindFreedom International is a coalition celebrating our 25th year for human rights and humane alternatives. Independent. United. Activism.

12. The United States International Council on Disabilities is a federation of US-based non-governmental organizations, federal agencies and individuals committed to advocacy and action on behalf of the global disability rights agenda. USICD: Council as type of “coalition” USIC Board President Marca Bristo

13. Historic informal coalition! Who has helped build bridges between "cross disability" and psychiatric rights?

14. Rae Unzicker & Justin Dart

15. Judi Chamberlin

16. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. It may well be that our world is in dire need of a new organization: "The International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment."

17. MindFreedom Ghana

18. Global Emergency Survivor of Electroshock In Accra Psychiatric Institution In Ghana

19. Turkish Consumer/Survivors

20. Concern about globalization of western psychiatric industry Pune, India activist Bhargavi Davar, PhD

21. Piers Gooding (Melbourne Australia) Graduate students. This intern started MindFreedom Academic Alliance

22. Geoffrey Reaume, PhD Historians This is an activist and one of the founders of Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto

23. Al Galves, PhD, of New Mexico Psychologist. New director of International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry (ISEPP). Board member MFI.

24. Mother power!

25. Accomplishments! What are a few "measurable outcomes" from collaboration between allies?

26. Movements rolling together. The uniting of cross disabilities and psychaitric survivor survivor issues builds on the "wins" of other movements

27. Olmstead victory Advocates & Consumers! Olmstead v. L.C. 1999 US Supreme Court Sue Jamieson (attorney) Elaine Wilson (middle) Lois Curtis (right)

28. NCD Executive Summary National Council on Disability “blueprint” in 2000: Mental health systems need to be voluntary Give rights to those with psychiatric labels Treatment should = healing, not punishment Make consumer/survivor-driven alternatives to traditional mental health systems a priority

29. Coalitions in United Nations Rights? What rights? The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 2006

30. Community Organizing: Recycle! Decide. Win. Act. Grow

31. Unite to Win A Few MindFreedom Campaigns: Shield: Alerts and Our Own Media Global: UN, Handbook and Training Choice: Alternatives for Mental Health Mad Pride: Celebrate Our Diversity Coalition: Affiliates and Sponsors Electroshock & Human Rights Initiative

32. What will be your origin story? Easy Local Coalition-Building Activities: Meet with a decision-maker Panels or speaker Brainstorm and speak out Show a relevant video Informal "meet up"

33. An OCSC-building goal! Far, far more Mental Health Peer Delivered Services in mental health!

34. Nothing About Us Without Us! Common core concern

35. Choice in Mental Health Respecting individual choice on medication Finding more alternatives Employment issues Housing problems

36. Robert Whitaker author of Anatomy of an Epidemic

37. Patch Adams & Gesundheidt Warning: Red Rubber Nose!

38. Consumer/Survivors Our local coalition meeting with the mayor

39. Greetings from Oregon's OCSC: We are a Movement!

40. What Can You Do? What is one specific step you can take toward coalition building in the next few days or weeks?

41. To reach some of the resources mentioned... Email: Presenter David Oaks: oaks@mindfreedom.org OCSC at: oregon.united@gmail.com Google: Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition MindFreedom International Project Able National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery USICD Thank you: Peerlink National Technical Assistance Center