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History Fragments
A Transition Time in CMHA Sask – 1962
Irwin Kahan was a social worker who served as an Executive Director of CMHA and then of the Schizophrenia Society in Saskatchewan. This “fragment” illustrates the complex relationship among politicians, professionals, research, and the Canadian Mental Health Association (Saskatchewan), a community-based organization. This “fragment” illustrates a transition time in mental...
History Fragments
Books, articles and archives reveal bits of information that illustrate the development of the mental health system we have now, the things we’ve lost and gained. My particular interest is the development of the consumer/survivor movements – the ways that people who live with mental illness – have lost...
First meeting of the Consumer Participation Task Force
This story will appear in my upcoming book Framework for Support: A Retrospective – 1984 – 2004: Bonnie Pape, newly hired Director of the CMHA National Framework project, described the first meeting of the “Consumer Participation Task Force” (forerunner of the National Consumer Advisory Committee -NCAC) In June 1986, seven wary...
Beginnings of CMHA National Consumer Advisory Committee
NATIONAL CONSUMER ADVISORY COMMITTEE (NCAC) An undated (pre-1991) The National newsletter article prepared by Bonnie Pape, Framework Project Associate CMHA National offered some background on the development of the National Consumer movement within CMHA. In 1983, a resolution passed at the National Annual Meeting called for “increased involvement of...
CMHA Domestic Training 1963
A letter from Mrs. E. A. Cullen, Superintendent of Nursing and F. Grunberg, Superintendent of the Saskatchewan Hospital, Weyburn appealed to CMHA for funding for a program of domestic training for employment in the average home. The program would use private homes and housewives had agreed to provide the...
Consumer Updates April 1990
Liaison, Divisional Updates of activities in the past six months, was a CMHA National publication that edited from reports from Divisions. These notes capture the information in the Consumer Participation category in the April 1990 Liaison: Newfoundland: Group established in St. John’s in October 1989, now meeting weekly with...