Cooperatives (or Co-ops for short) have always been around in one way or another. We tend to think of them as farms and grocery stores owned by their own workers. But the truth is, co-op models actually exist in just about every corner of the economy. This includes mental health care. How? Through the benefits …
The Role of Housing Cooperatives In Mental Health Care Read More »
I’m not a fan of change. There, I said it. I know that’s not what the lifestyle gurus and influencers would have us believe. According to them – change is good, change is vital for life and growth. But what they usually fail to acknowledge is that change also sucks. Why? Because it’s hard and …
Thanks, I Hate It: Accepting A Change You Didn’t Choose Read More »
How the Community Care movement resulted in an epidemic of homelessness. …Deinstitutionalization is at the very least a work in progress if it has begun at all… Hamlin and Oakes Reflections on Deinstitutionalization in the United Kingdom – 2008 1984. England. A scathing report emerges: the structure of the National Health Service is woefully broken, …
Breaking the Cycle Part 3: Everyone’s Distant Cousin but No One’s Baby Read More »
Community Care is a way to shift the onus of solving social problems away from the individual, like Kenny, who rarely has the resources, emotional education, time, or money to “self care,” to a greater collective that includes individuals, governments, aid organizations, communities, and businesses working together to improve the systemically broken conditions that produce …
Breaking the Cycle – Exploring Community Mental Health Care Pt. 1: Intro Read More »
