Mental health services need to continue to function even during pandemics like #COVID19. It is possible, requires rethinking & no doubt will produce better outcomes for people #QualityRights

We call for an END to systemic racism that allows this culture of corruption to go unchecked and our lives to be taken. See the demands. Sign the petition. #DefundThePolice #blacklivesmatter bit.ly/3gGe3qU

To my white educators: Today, you’re posting about social justice, buying antiracist books, following brown folks, and temp changing your profile pictures. (thread) Here’s what I need you to do tomorrow:

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Former Murray State star Ja Morant asked a Kentucky judge to take down a Confederate statue in downtown Murray.

The Jefferson Davis statue was hoisted to a trailer after it was removed from the Kentucky state Capitol. Lexington Herald-Leader

Underlying health conditions sounds very abstract - can’t we just say it’s about all those #NCDs that governments were not willing to take action on? Will they now? #CDoH

Excited to see our new article pubished in Health&HumanRights - World Health Organization (WHO) #QualityRights perspective providing practical solutions for transforming #mentalhealth services & aligning policy & law with the #UN #CRPD hhrjournal.org/2020/06/perspe…

Protesters are on the steps of the Kentucky state Capitol demanding justice for Breonna Taylor. Lexington Herald-Leader

Psychiatric Advanced Directives (PADs) are powerful tools for service users to have their tx preferences known if they have a future mental health crisis & are deemed incompetent. This essay from New Zealand outlines barriers & facilitating system factors for PAD implementation

This paper rocks for many reasons. To name a few, creates tool that allows stakeholders to define their outcomes of interest; is transparent; and offers an innovative payment model. Need to think beyond early psychosis programs! @iepa NASMHPD American Association for Community Psychiatry

What happens when economists partner with clinicians and policy people? Cross-disciplinary knowledge. Read what is needed to support coordinated specialty care in the US. NASMHPD American Association for Community Psychiatry

Today on World Health Day, 7 April 2021, let's aim to build a fairer, healthier world #WorldHealthDay2021

Hearing voices, it’s impact & how hearing voices groups have provided life saving support vt.co/lifestyle/heal… INTERVOICE Mental Health | Social Justice MHESME Zikoko

IU Health Academic Health Center current hospitalization data Keep in mind Indiana is at about 50% vaccinated at this point. So if vaccines didn’t work, it should be equal numbers of vax and unvax hospitalized. Vaccines clearly keep people out of the hospital. Get the shot.

More funding for mental health? Be careful. Our medicalised system has had over 40 years to prove itself. By most measures it's failed: mental health worsening, prescriptions vaulting, outcomes flatlining, morale tumbling. If we are going to fund, let's not fund more the same.

Just 1️⃣ week until our next #MHForAll #webinar for #HumanRightsDay. Chaired by Cláudia Braga, we'll discuss how to provide a rights-based approach to #MentalHealth care, with speakers: 🗣 CARE Perú, CBM Global Disability Inclusion, CFUH Liberia 🗓 Tue 13 Dec 2pm GMT 🔗bit.ly/3BhjRDh

#Rio sees success in #mentalhealth & #humanrights. Deinstitutionalization project led by Ministério Público do Rio de Janeiro using World Health Organization (WHO) #QualityRights. One psych hospital closed, community-based care now in place. Second hospital reducing beds. Secretaria de Estado de Saúde do Rio de Janeiro Cláudia Braga @Renato_OeSouza