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M-POWER is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization which does mental health advocacy.

We also work on major campaigns. Recent successes include:

• Restraint & Seclusion Policy.
• Informed Consent.
• Bill of Rights.

• Boston contact: Andrew or Rita (617) 929-4111 FAX (617) 929-4128
• Worcester contact: Deni' Cohodas (508) 368-3448 FAX use above for now
• Lowell contact: Steve Cohodas (978) 685-7658 FAX (978) 689-4488

M-POWER is a member-run organization of mental health consumers and current and former psychiatric patients. We will advocate for political and social change within the mental health system and the community, city and statewide. Organizing as a common voice, we will define and secure our human rights and facilitate freedom of information about those rights. We will take a stand on all issues that impede our ability to live as dignified people. We will enlighten mental health professionals and the community, empowering ourselves in the process. We believe all people are entitled to lives free of prejudice and oppression.

• Massachusetts
• People/patients
• Organized for
• Wellness
• Empowerment and
• Rights

  HAVE YOU EVER...

  • been treated disrespectfully by a physician because you were mentally ill?
  • been denied access to health of life insurance because you were mentally ill ?
  • been dehumanized or abused in a mental hospital, or been forced to accept "treatment" against your will?
  • been asked discriminatory questions about your psychiatric history on applications for housing, education, employment, or driver's license?
  • been denied access to any of the above?
  • had your plans to marry interfered with by the mental health system?
  • lost custody of your children or been labelled an "unfit parent" solely because of a psychiatric history?
  • been given medication without being told what it was for, what the possible short and long-term side effects are, or why you had to take it ?
  • had the right to control your own finances taken away ?

    IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED ANY OF THESE SITUATIONS, OR OTHERS LIKE THEM, M-POWER IS FOR YOU !!

    To contact us, Andrew Palmer or Rita Callaghan at 617-929-4111.
    Please mention that you saw us on the Internet!

    
    Mail comments and link requests to Howard D. Trachtman, hdt@m-power.org