by David W. Oaks | Mar 1, 2022 | Green Disability, Peer Support
My excellent friend Leslie Relle lives here in Eugene, Oregon and is a brain injury survivor. I’m David W. Oaks and I’ve been a disability advocate for decades. During much of this time I’ve known Leslie, she is warm, funny and supportive. Like me, she is in her 60’s....
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...