UNIFY! ACT! THE TIME IS NOW!
APRIL 22-23, 2016
SACRAMENTO
Brain Sala, Deputy Director Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission and County Behavioral Health Directors Associations
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Daniel Fisher
Goals of the Statewide Conferences
- Provide knowledge to behavioral health clients
- Provide advocacy skills and experience to behavioral health clients
- Mutually engage consumers and political/policy leaders with each other
- Enhance statewide and regional networking of clients
- Work on organizational issues at a membership meeting
A measure of the success of the Conference is if attendees leave feeling that they are not alone, that they are connected to a state (and national) advocacy movement, and that they feel energized and empowered to go back to their communities to do the work that is needed.
PHOTOS
During open mic we heard: empowerment, hope, acceptance, & knowing we are not alone! Conference goals accomplished! pic.twitter.com/y1wkb2FoOF
— CAMHPRO (@advocacycamhpro) April 24, 2016
#CAMHPRO2016 Are you at our conference? Come to “Bills on the Move” at 2:00. #UnifyActNow pic.twitter.com/2de94mLzQT
— CAMHPRO (@advocacycamhpro) April 22, 2016
#camhpro2016 Empowered by 2 of our national leaders in self determination – Sally Zinman and @dbfisher21 THANK YOU pic.twitter.com/OUxaZrfAXw
— CAMHPRO (@advocacycamhpro) April 22, 2016
#CAMHPRO2016 Annual Conference #UnifyActNow#endmentalhealthstigma Thank you @EachMindMatterspic.twitter.com/Y1tcLXuFxQ
— CAMHPRO (@advocacycamhpro) April 22, 2016
SOCIAL MEDIA VILLAGE
Day at the Capitol
HOWIE THE HARP AWARD
The individual receiving The Howie T. Harp Award will be announced and awarded at the Consumer Conference. It is our way of acknowledging …
- A) Self-Identified Consumer
- B) Statewide leadership in furthering the goals of the consumer movement in advocacy and/or services;
- C) Longtime service.
Photo Courtesy of Sally Zinman
Howie The Harp was a legendary leader of the client movement in California and the nation. Howie started the first consumer run organization in the United States, the Insane Liberation Front in Oregon. He went on to start drop-in centers in New York and California. His work was primarily focused on advocating for homeless and poor people with mental disabilities. The movement lost him too early as he passed away at the young age of 42, but not before he left a lasting imprint on the peer/consumer community. Along with a handful of tremendous pioneers he set a trajectory for peer-run services and peer/consumer advocacy that we continue today. The Howie T. Harp award was initiated by our predecessor, California Network of Mental Health Clients.
Reaching Across: Mental Health Clients Helping Each Other EBook by Sally Zinman, Howie the Harp, and Su Budd.
Photo Courtesy of Sally Zinman
