On February 1, students across the country took to the streets for a Day of Action.
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"Mad hatters in the hammer - coming to terms" (Mad Students Society peer support meeting)
Jan 26 2012 - 4:00pm
Jan 26 2012 - 6:00pm
Location
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON
Canada
43° 14' 36.9708" N, 79° 53' 20.67" W
See map: Google Maps
MSS Presents: "Mad Hatters in the Hammer - Coming to Terms"
The first ever MSS peer support meeting in Hamilton
Are you crazy? Labelled/DSMed with (‘serious', ‘persistent', ‘severe') ‘mental illness'? Have you been psychiatrized, therapized, case managed, social worked? (How) Do you manage ‘mental health issues' or ‘concerns' or 'challenges' or ‘problems'? How do you self-identify? Some people use words like psychiatric survivor, consumer, user, ex-patient as well as mad, psychiatrically/emotionally/socially disabled and mentally ill. Which terms do you use? Which ones are used against you?
Contact name:
Phebe
Contact email:
Mad Students Society peer support meeting "New Year, fear, cheer and community revolutions"
Jan 14 2012 - 3:30pm
Jan 14 2012 - 5:30pm
Location
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 11.6136" N, 79° 22' 59.4624" W
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MSS Presents: "New Year/Fear/Cheer and Community Revolutions"
What? Our January 2012 downtown peer support meeting
Where? Email Elizabeth at outreach@madstudentsociety.com for details.
How crazy was 2011? (How) Did you make it through the holidays? Come talk about the New Year and what you're worried about and looking forward to in 2012. Do you make resolutions? Dissolutions? Evolutions? Revolutions? What are your hopes for the mad community and MSS in the year ahead? Any questions you want answered? Issues you want addressed? Topics you want discussed? Events you want organized (you're so helping!)? Of course there will be plenty of time to talk about whatever else is on our minds... We welcome new members, frequent faces, and folks we haven't seen in awhile!
Contact name:
Elizabeth
Contact email:
Mad Students Society: December peer support meeting
Dec 10 2011 - 3:30pm
Dec 10 2011 - 5:30pm
Location
University campus
Toronto, ON
Canada
43° 39' 11.6136" N, 79° 22' 59.4624" W
See map: Google Maps
Mad Students Society (MSS), created in 2005, is a community of students who are attending or planning to attend institutions of post-secondary or adult education and have past/present experiences with psychiatric/mental health systems.
We meet monthly and communicate through an email listserv to support each other, discover tools for self-advocacy, and connect with our history and broader social movements.
Our next peer support meeting is in downtown Toronto. The MSS discussion listserv is open to members anywhere in the world. In-person meetings coming January 2012 to Hamilton and North York!
Contact name:
Elizabeth
Contact email:
