Participate in the development of a national mental health consumer organisation – Live stream!
Consumers not attending the 2018 TheMHS Conference are invited to participate in a meeting to continue the conversation about a national consumer run organisation across Australia on Facebook on Thursday 30 August 2018 between 5.15 and 6.30 PM South Australian Time. This conversation has been building since 1996 TheMHS in Brisbane.
The meeting will build on the work many have been doing over the years and will follow a Featured Symposium taking place earlier in the day. It is a great opportunity for consumers to participate in this process.
Please share this link https://www.facebook.com/Consumerconversations2017/ with your networks and join with us as we continue to move this vision forward.

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Hi! We have started a Group on Facebook called Consumer Conversations, this link https://m.me/join/AbY7-zFhzq7TNPgp is your invitation to join. One of the exciting things we are working on is a letter to Minister Greg Hunt after Ailsa Rayner spoke with him at the TheMHS conference. 

67 consumers have joined the group and the focus of the group is to allow people that are interested in progressing a Consumer Perspective as described in the Glossary of the Kit.
If you are interested click on the link and have a look at the draft letter, we are up to version 34

Hi! I received an email from Amanda Waegeli this morning with an attached letter that gives an update with the work the Australian Hearing Voices Establishment Project Steering Committee has been d…

Source: Email from Amanda Waegeli

Consumer Conversations use social media to network and provide support and share information about the various activities that members of the group are involved with.

Members of the group are involved in various activities at a local, area, PHN, state and national level.

The group is on Facebook and uses the definition: Consumer Perspective from The Kit as the guiding principle for how it decides what issues can be on the agenda with the group

consumer perspective: a way of seeing the world in the light of experience/s of mental/emotional distress. Includes experiences of seeking support (of various kinds), of stigma in the community and within services. Also incorporates a sense of solidarity with others who have had similar experiences.

The letter is the first time the group Consumer Conversations has decided to have a coordinated campaign on an issue and will be sending this out to there other networks for comment prior to asking Minister Hunt for an appointment to discuss if he will support reinstating the concept of a National Mental Health Consumer Organisation that is properly funded by the Commonwealth

A copy of the Letter can be obtained here at this link

You are welcome to join the group if you have a Consumer Perspective – see definition above click here

This link will capture your contact details if you would like to be included in the table at the end of the letter when we send it off to the minister

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We are planning to send the letter next Wednesday 13 September 2017 when some of the group will come together for the Recovery Camp in Wallaroo, SA Click here for more information

Hi! We have started a Group on Facebook called Consumer Conversations, this link https://www.messenger.com/t/532868206863625 is your invitation to join.
One of the exciting things we are working on is a letter to Minister Greg Hunt after Ailsa Rayner spoke with him at the TheMHS conference.
67 consumers have joined the group and the focus of the group is to allow people that are interested in progressing a Consumer Perspective as described in the Glossary of the Kit.
If you are interested click on the link and have a look at the draft letter, we are up to version 3

This is the HVN NSW eNews August 2017 Click here

These are some of the images from the last couple of days while out shopping for new Marbles Runs in Wichita Kansas.

The Consumer Run Organisations we have visited have been excited about being. Involved in developing a Kansas Team Marbles Challenge in Kansas during he next couple of years.

The Kits we have settled on are different from the ones we use in Australia, however the skill needed to build them and have a fast time rolloing the marbles still requires participants to focus on the task at hand.

After five days of putting the Marble Run kit together Gary Parker is taking around 5 and 1/2 minutes to construct the kit, and yesterday he rolled the marbles through in 53.28 seconds,

Looking forward to visiting the othe 7 CRO’s this coming week.

The top picture is standing on the top of Pikes Peake in Colorado
​​These are some of the images from the last couple of days while out shopping for new Mar

Click on this link to go to the CDP FILES

Mental Health Peer Workers determining how we work!!! Let’s make this a reality. 

A copy of the statement of intent can be found here

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