I identified myself to Paul Fink, former APA head, and suggested shifting vocabulary to talk about discrimination. You people are treated like lepers . So we need to talk about stigma. We need to keep hospitals because community services have not been put in place. Actually, he said, it's not discrimination, it's prejudice and that is a more accessible concept.
Advance directives are choice.
Nothing About Us Without Us. NIMH is developing out reach partners in each state to disseminate information without using the Internet. Habitat for Humanity is has a initiative to build houses with people with psychiatric disabilities. The suggestion was that that phrase might be more well known and the concept palatable. A suggestion made by Cynthia Wainscott was a National Listening Project, to talk to consumers and families about the lacks and needs of ethnic minorities for m h services.