are an example of  activism in our field that should be emulated.  From their website:

 

 

 

It is not enough to focus on issues of individual recovery. We must also be concerned with collective recovery or the process by which we, as people with disabilities, strive for a just society in which we have the opportunity to participate fully as citizens. We must take a stand against the forces that oppress and silence people with disabilities: poverty, discrimination, lack of employment and educational opportunities, self-serving bureaucracies, and dehumanizing clinical practices. We are all connected and as long as one person is oppressed, none of us are free.

Cross-disability rally at Tewksbury State Hospital. We are human beings!

Below are descriptions of some of the social justice projects we are currently involved with.

• State Hospital Cemetery Restoration: From Numbers to Names

• African American Perspectives on the History of Mental Health Services

• Native American Perspectives on the History of Mental Health Services

• Housing – Or How We Won $4.26 Million Dollars for New Housing through The Sale of a State Hospital

  -- Timeline of the sale of a state hospital and successful housing advocacy
  -- 1980’s
  -- 1990
  -- 1991
  -- 1991-1996
  -- 1997
  -- 1998
  -- 2000
  -- 2001,2002
  -- 2003
  -- 2004,2005

State Hospital Cemetery Restoration: From Numbers To Names

All across the United States there are forgotten cemeteries at state hospitals. Historically, people who died at state hospitals and whose remains were not claimed by family or friends, were buried on the grounds. Most state hospitals buried former patients and marked their resting place with numbered markers. Patient confidentiality and tight budgets often comprised the rationale for burying people in this way. Over time many state hospital cemeteries fell into neglect, and were subsequently forgotten.

A 1923 burial at the former Goldsboro State Hospital for the Colored Insane in North Carolina		A numbered marker at Danvers State Hospital, Massachusetts 1999.		A burial at Topeka State Hospital in Topeka Kansas.

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