[Antiracism] Law and Psychiatry Series: *January 31st* 5-7

[kjmalone at mtholyoke.edu]

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Freedom Center Law and Psychiatry Series
January 31, 5 - 7 PM, Florence Civic Center

Those involved in the psychiatric system have had their legal rights
violated and their basic human rights routinely abused.  We have
experienced and witnessed illegal restraints and seclusions, we've
been medicated without informed consent, we've been committed when we
were neither a danger to self or others, or for no other reason than
refusing to comply with a treatment plan.

The Freedom Center is pleased to announce the 1st session of the
long-awaited Law and Psychiatry training series with Nancy Svirida,
Esq., of the Disability Law Center (DLC).  The issue of Forced 
Medication
will be addressed in an in-depth lecture and Q&A period on the topics 
of
Informed Consent, Rogers Orders, and Health Care Proxies.

Tuesday January 31
5-5:30p reception with food
5:30-7p lecture and Q&A

The Florence Civic Center
located at 90 Park St just past Florence center on rt. 9W

*attendance restricted to mental health consumers, advocates,
psychiatric survivors, and allies.

For more information contact: aly01 at hampshire.edu or 413-582-9948


Future trainings in the series:

February 28th
Forced Hospitalization: Voluntary/Involuntary Admissions, Civil 
Commitments

March 28th
Abuse, Neglect and the DMH Complaint Process

April 25th
Competence and Decision-Making: Guardianship, Conservatorship, and
Representative Payees

Location for these trainings to be announced




"The salvation of our world lies in the hands of the maladjusted"

Martin Luther King, Jr. 

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