Another is to create resource materials which build its capacity for both education and advocacy. The Council partners with other community groups for specific projects and has taken up a role in policy development. Few of its considerable accomplishments would have occurred without collective effort and inspiration. The true profits of survivor CED lies in the number of people employed and the number of employment hours the business can offer to individuals. They lie in the length of time people can maintain their employment, their participation in running the company, and the opportunity to choose how to participate.
Success is a sense of ownership, a voice in making decisions.
The limits of survivor CED lie in the psychiatric treatment system, and in the over-riding effects of the national, indeed, the global economy. In the end, there are high hopes and enormous constraints. Psychiatric survivor businesses exist in the tension between the two.