by David W. Oaks | Dec 29, 2021 | Green Disability
Download the initial report on the Mind Justice Survey
by David W. Oaks | Dec 5, 2021 | Green Disability, Mad Pride
Every five years, Harvard/Radcliffe asks its alumni/ae to submit a brief report about their life for a “Red Book” that is distributed widely. By coincidence, the deadline for submission was 1 December 2021, a special date for me, David Oaks. Here is my...
by David W. Oaks | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
MindFreedom International (MFI) and Aciu! Institute are searching for interns to begin at the start of UO’s Winter 2022 term! If you are interested in community organizing/activism with marginalized and disempowered communities, please consider applying! If...
by David W. Oaks | Aug 28, 2021 | Green Disability, Mad Pride, Peer Support
The below was given by Rev. Phillip Schulman in Kerrville, Texas, as his inaugural sermon. You may download a copy of this as a PDF here. Unitarian Universalist Church of The Hill Country, Kerrville, Texas: The UU Church of the Hill Country is proud to introduce you...
by David W. Oaks | Jun 22, 2021 | Green Disability, Mad Pride, Peer Support
MAD Pride Month: July 2021 What is MAD? Marginalized And Disempowered: M.A.D. And that is everyone! We are all trauma survivors of what is happening now on our planet. Yes, we are in a crisis. But a silver lining is that we finally have unity, 100% of us are M.A.D.!...
by David W. Oaks | Apr 5, 2021 | Green Disability, Mad Pride, Peer Support
To download a one-page flyer of the below text, click here. Sunday, 18 April 2021, 5 pm PT At that time click: tinyurl.com/ivorypeer This is a free webinar in honor of the late Ivory McCuen (1990-2021). Ivory died homeless of exposure at the age of 30 on 24 Jan. 2021...
by David W. Oaks | Mar 16, 2021 | Climate Crisis, Green Disability, Green Solutions, Mad Pride, Peer Support
Spring 2021 David W. Oaks will blog on Mad in America, to be released 18 March 2021, about changing federal mental health agency and remembering Ivory. For the Mad in America page about David W. Oaks blog, go here: https://www.madinamerica.com/author/doaks/ Below are...
by David W. Oaks | Jan 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
18 January 2021 Today, as we celebrate MLK, I have blogged on my personal website about resisting the urge for a “new normality.” Here are some resources and events that related: Here is a link to download your free copy of a spreadsheet showing the grants...
by David W. Oaks | Sep 23, 2020 | Green Disability, Mad Pride
In July of 2020, I provided a Zoom keynote to Peerpocalypse, which is now the main network for hundreds of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors annually in the USA. Mad In America, one of the main catalysts for changing a failed mental health system,...
by David W. Oaks | Sep 1, 2020 | Green Disability, Mad Pride
Recently, Aciu! Institute helped the Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene Community (Oregon), in partnership with CareWorks of Lane County, hosted the second online Access Forum. These forums are open to people of any faith from anywhere. The Access Forum provides...
