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Easy Read Booklet About Mental Health
Mental health services do not always provide good services for people with learning disabilities or autistic people. Self-Advocates from Australia wrote The Green Light Toolkit to help services think about…
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People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) are at a higher risk of experiencing mental illnesses than society as a whole. However, treatment is available for most mental illnesses. Here…
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Dealing with a loss is hard. People with disabilities can be left out of the picture. Often people think we can’t handle the deep emotions when someone dies. Here is…
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Max Barrows and Hasan Ko met with more than 40 self-advocates from at least 17 states to talk about mental health. We discussed – What helps? What does not work?…
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We are teaching these classes to help self-advocates become “peer supporters”. Peer supporters gain information and tools during this course that will help them close the gaps between the person…
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