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Determined to be heard
Editor's notebook
by Liz Thor-Larsen
Hi, my name is Liz and I have a history of mental illness. Lately, I am inclined to temper that phrase with the word "proud". How is it that we can be so good and yet so bad? When did the world become a miasma of judges - and I not among them? I cannot help but reveal what a pleasant surprise taking on the job of Editor for this Network newsletter has been; pleasant and painful, but nevertheless pleasant. In all the discussions of liberation and oppression I have involved myself with during my lifetime, the issue of "voice" has always been paramount. Voice. Give voice to your thoughts, and have someone in the street look you point blank in the face and say "You're delusional". This is simply a person who's political analysis sucks. However, in other circumstances and at other times, one's thoughts are construed to be working against one and it's "bin" time. Oh well, another period of "asylum" during which to wonder what the hell went wrong this time. Not to belabor the fact too much, life goes on and now I find myself in the enviable position of Editor of this progressive rag and the proud mother of two fine young men, with a partner who loves me and not an inconsiderable amount of respect for my opinions among my friends. What more could one wish? The next edition of the Bulletin will be out in the Fall or early Winter. If you have a history of mental illness and would like to be published, this is your organ. Please drop work by the Network office, through your group coordinators (if you belong to one of the peer groups),
e-mail: vanrmd@telus.net or call me at (604) 254-8014 to arrange for pickup. Inquiries as to the next issue’s theme should also be addressed to this email address, or you can phone the Network office. As one hears so/too often, Rome was not built in a day. Mental hospitals were not decommissioned in one life time. Razing prisons is not a lost art.
Funding Becomes Available
Network receives major funding The Network is happy to announce that we have been successful in obtaining a grant from the BC Ministry of Health through the good offices of the BC Center of Excellence for Women's Health. We will receive $20,000. This money will be used to pursue a research project that will look at the benefits women might experience from receiving alternative/complementary methods of healing and/also to further enhance our peer support work. Another Network committee has been encouraged to submit a funding proposal to the Federal Status of Women office for money to hold focus groups to elicit information on what services/visions women would like to see in the Network's long held desire to create a Safe House. Both these projects will employ people on a short-term basis to help them further develop skills and self-confidence. Both of these proposals are women focused. We continue to seek outside funding to expand current Network support for Men. Helen Turbett,
Coordinator
| Volume 5 Number 2 | 2000-Table of contents | Summer 2000 |
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