Juneau I’ve often said that to be successful an organizer has to have one eye squarely planted on the ground where she’s walking and the other high in the clouds where she is trying to go. That has never been truer than in the case of the formal founding of the Mental Health Consumers Action …
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Bruce Springsteen and Talking to Mental Health Consumers in Alaska
Juneau Before coming up to help organize the Mental Health Consumers Action Network (MCAN) in Alaska, I only had one request. I wanted to be able to meet and listen to men and women who had experience in the system to hear their issues and ideas for improvements. I wanted to talk to the consumers …
Land Matters for Mental Health in Alaska
Juneau Looking around the small, pretty Alaskan capitol of Juneau, a first-timer like myself comes to the shorthand conclusion that tourism and state government in the capitol is the engine driving the city. A couple of days of meetings remind you that first appearances don’t tell you everything you need to know. In the bigger-than-Texas …