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This May is Mental Health Awareness month and today I speak with Kathy Flaherty about mental health advocacy. Kathy is the Executive Director of Connecticut Legal Rights Project a statewide non-profit agency that provides legal services to low income individuals with mental health conditions, who reside in hospitals or the community, on matters related to their treatment, recovery, and civil rights. Kathy combines her personal experience as a recipient of mental health services and her legal background to speak to issues affecting those living with mental health conditions.

*Content warnings: this interview will discuss the following topics that may be traumatic and triggering: gun violence, hospitalization, psychiatric institutions, forced medication, suicide, and suicidal ideation.

Transcript

Related Links

CLRP Files Federal Complaint Against State to Ensure Patient Safety at State Operated Psychiatric Facilities Amidst Covid-19 (April 30, 2020).

CLRP Files Amended Complaint in Federal Court Case Addressing the Spread of Covid-19 in CVH and Whiting (May 7, 2020).

Flaherty, Kathleen. (March 29, 2020). I had to go to the hospital, and what I saw terrified me. Hartford Courant.

Flaherty, Kathy and Ann Pratt. (April 27, 2019). Don't cut the safety net. Ask for more from those most able to contribute. Hartford Courant.

Flaherty, Kathleen. (March 2, 2018). How I Know That Psychiatric Hospitals Don't Cure Gun Violence. Hartford Courant.

Flaherty, Kathleen. (January 17, 2018). Let's talk about real issues, not Trump's mental health. CT Mirror.

Flaherty, Kathleen. (January 13, 2015). Involuntary mental health treatment no fix. Hartford Courant.

About

Since 2015, Kathy Flaherty has served as Executive Director of Connecticut Legal Rights Project, Inc. (CLRP) ( www.clrp.org ) a statewide non-profit agency that provides legal services to low income individuals with mental health conditions, who reside in hospitals or the community, on matters related to their treatment, recovery, and civil rights. Kathy spent 13 years as a Staff Attorney at Statewide Legal Services of CT, Inc., the centralized intake hotline for all the Connecticut legal services programs.

Kathy combines her personal experience as a recipient of mental health services and her legal background to speak to issues affecting those living with mental health conditions.

Kathy is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers-CT (the state's lawyer assistance program) www.lclct.org ; she is a member of the Advisory Board of the Connecticut Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement (CABLE) ( www.cableweb.org .) Kathy is the co-chair of the Keep the Promise Coalition ( http://www.ctkeepthepromise.org/ ), a coalition of advocates (people living with mental health conditions, family members, mental health professionals and interested community members) with a vision of a state in which people with mental health conditions are able to live successfully in the community because they have access to housing and other community-based supports and services that are recovery oriented, person-driven and holistic in their approach to wellness. She is also a member of the steering committee of the Connecticut Cross Disability Lifespan Alliance ( http://bit.ly/CCDLA ), an alliance of people of all ages with all disabilities who pursue a unified agenda in support of building a great life in the community.

A graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School, Kathy has dedicated her professional life to advocating for the rights of the underserved.

Kathy lives in her hometown of Newington with her husband, Jim Valentino, and their rescue dog Bella.

Kathy is on Twitter @ConnConnection and is on Instagram at @reddevilsfan8332. Kathy has written op-eds published in the Hartford Courant and CT Mirror on a variety of topics, including politics, law, mental health, adoptee rights, and soccer.
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It's Women's History Month, which makes it an excellent time to talk about the fact that women's history and disability history overlap significantly; notable women from Harriet Tubman to Helen Keller have been disabled trailblazers for social justice, including women's rights. To do so, however, they had to fight not just sexism and racism, but disablism: Their disabilities were used against them to dismiss their activism, including by historians talking about their work. Using disability status to suppress women and their work is an ancient trend. This includes not just physical disabilities but also psychiatric ones - mental illness has been weaponized to institutionalize outspoken women, undermine women's fight for equality, and justify the mistreatment of women across cultures and eras.

Numerous women in history have pushed back on the use of psychiatric diagnoses like depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder to marginalize women, a practice that has its roots in terminology like "hysteria." One woman, Judi Chamberlin, didn't just fight for the civil rights of mentally ill women - she questioned the entire framework of how we talk about mental health conditions as an integral member of the Mad Pride movement. She felt strongly that mental health conditions were more complex than simple medical issues. Chamberlin argued that society contributes to the experience of mental health and that societal stresses can be used to medicalize people. Thus, natural emotions in response to life experiences like the death of a loved one could be twisted into evidence of pathology, for example.

Members of the Mad Pride movement may also identify themselves as psychiatric survivors, referencing a long history of abuse and mistreatment at the hands of unscrupulous members of the psychiatric profession. They argue that madness is a natural facet of the human condition, and something to be cherished as part of someone's identity - some are not interested in medication and other treatments. Mad Pride is a person-centered movement that believes it's important to empower people to make their own choices, recognizing that there isn't a one size fits all approach to living with mental illness.

Chamberlin's role in the movement intersects heavily with how psychiatry has been abused to keep women in the margins. She was forcibly institutionalized in 1966 after she had a miscarriage and sought help with depression. Her doctor suggested she go to the hospital, which she did - and then she discovered that she couldn't get out. During her time on the wards, she witnessed the abuse of other patients and quickly learned that she'd need to lie if she wanted to secure her release, hiding her feelings and performing for the people around her to project an image of recovery. She reflected:

"I was consumed with the clear conviction that there was something fundamentally wrong here. Who were these people that had taken such total control of our lives? Why were they the experts on what we should do, how we should live? Why was the ugliness, and even the brutality, of what was happening to us overlooked and ignored? Why had the world turned its back on us?"

Chamberlin took that feeling with her when she left.

She joined the Mental Patients Liberation Front in Boston, along with other organizations run by people who identified as psychiatric survivors, including MindFreedom and the National Empowerment Center. In 1978, she published On Our Own: Patient Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System, which became a foundational text for members of the Mad Pride movement.

She also worked with the National Council on Disability on a 2000 report that centered the voices of people with psychiatric disabilities in a conversation about human rights in the context of psychiatric care. Along with others, she argued that regardless of "good behavior," people should be allowed to wear their own clothes, receive visitors, and leave the grounds while in residential care. These things, she said, should be treated as basic rights, not things contingent on doing the things personnel in psychiatric facilities want patients to do; deprivation of these rights is an injustice. She also worked on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a document the United States has yet to ratify.

Chamberlin died in 2010 of her underlying lung disease at the age of 65, a great loss for both the Mad Pride and disability rights movements. Her innovative work was remarkable on many fronts, but one was the ability to balance and respect different ways of approaching mental health conditions. While she may have taken a Mad Pride approach to her own life, she was careful to avoid invalidating the experiences of others, defending, for example, the use of psychiatric medication among people who benefited from it. Chamberlin's work as an activist and community leader was centered on human and civil rights, and the power to make choices rather than having choices imposed by others. Her work created room for a diversity of experiences and beliefs, all rooted in respecting individuals as they were, rather than as others might want them to be.

Her belief that patients should remain in control of their own recovery wasn't just about how people should manage mental illness. She was also interested in larger social supports and structures, like the ability to find housing, education, and work, which she saw as central components of human rights. Perhaps unsurprisingly, ultimately that led her to collaboration with disability advocacy groups that focused on issues wider than mental health. By the 1990s, she was working with groups like the American Association of People with Disabilities, finding solidarity in people with common goals of autonomy and liberation. This more holistic view is reflected in the approaches of many contemporary disability rights organizations, including ADAPT, which fights for home and community based services to empower disabled people to live in their communities and take charge of their lives.
She is remembered as a fierce woman who was unafraid to speak truth to power, and as someone who was also fun to be around; she had a deeply humorous streak and was beloved by many in her community. Her dedication to taking control of her care as human, consumer, and patient didn't stop with mental health, either: She fought ferociously for the right to die at home, which she did, surrounded by loved ones.
"The public's aversion to people who are different is not sufficient reason to justify locking them up.," Chamberlin wrote in On Our Own. I couldn't agree more, and I'm deeply grateful for the groundbreaking work she did to empower the mental health community. Without her efforts, my own life as a mentally ill person would likely be quite different; my ability to access mental health services on my own terms might be much more challenging than it already is without the work of advocates who fought so bitterly for autonomy. We still have a long way to go when it comes to acknowledging the rights of mentally ill people - whether we call ourselves people with mental health conditions, psychiatric survivors, consumers, or by other names - but people like Chamberlin laid the groundwork for our freedom.

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Advocacy Days, part of The Arc's Advocacy Partnership Project, are held during each legislative session to involve self-advocates and families in the legislative process, giving them opportunities to make their voices heard by their legislators and to have an impact on policy and budget legislation that affects the services and supports available to them.
Virtual Advocacy Day Schedule: Click on the links below to learn more and register for each event:
One way you can let them hear your voice is to be a part of our "You KNOW Me!" (YKM) Click the YKM document below to see all the voices who are sharing what is important to them with their legislators. The Arc of Washington State's "You KNOW Me!" campaign is intended to help legislators get some meaningful perspective from some of their constituents who have a developmental disability. You can do your part too! Email Diana@arcwa.org to learn how you can add your voice!

Get signed up for Action Alerts by clicking here. Watch our Facebook page and Twitter accounts for even more information. Attend Virtual Advocacy Days each week during the 2021 Legislative Session to learn about Hot Topics, then connect with your legislators! Try the Advocacy Toolkit put together by the Washington State Developmental Disabilities Council (DDC). DD Budget Crisis Advocacy Toolkit No experience sharing your story? Watch these short clips and see how others make their voice heard:

2021 Virtual Advocacy Days Schedule!

Let us know how Your Experience was!

We want to know how Advocacy Day was for YOU! After each Advocacy Day event you will be able to share your experience with us. Our evaluation form is short and easy to fill out, find it online by going to: 2021 Feedback Form

NOTE: Each meeting link is unique and you must register for each one separately!

Our theme this year is "Zooming in on Developmental Disabilities" as we encourage legislators to champion bills/budget items that are important to people with developmental disabilities (DD). (This event is hosted by a number of cross-disability groups and is not specific to developmental disabilities.)
Want to try a virtual background made just for this Briefing? Click here!
Once opened, right click the picture and "Save Image As" onto your computer. When you are in a Zoom meeting, click the arrow next to "Video", and go to "Choose Virtual Background". Click the + sign, then add it from your computer folder where you saved it. Watch for new backgrounds each week. Special thanks to Ivanova Smith, Chair of Self Advocates in Leadership (SAIL), for her wonderful art work!

Supported living providers have been on the front line of this pandemic, taking care of their clients even when they get COVID. as well as self-advocates, family members and others join to let legislators know how important living in the community is and ask them to ensure that providers of these supports are paid a fair living wage. There is currently a huge inequity as supported living providers do exactly the same care tasks as state employees in State Operated Living Alternatives (SOLA), yet receive much lower wages. Adult Family Homes and Assisted Living are also community settings struggling during this pandemic.

Special Guest: Representative Emily Wicks

See the Community Residential Advocacy Day Agenda here. Download the handouts here.
Let us know how Your Experience was!
We want to know how Advocacy Day was for YOU! Please share your experience with us. Our evaluation form is short and easy to fill out, find it online by going to: 2021 Feedback Form
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Having a job means that individuals with DD can be productive citizens, contributing to our economy by paying taxes, while also providing valuable services. Being gainfully employed builds self-esteem, but our state still allows people with disabilities to be paid sub-minimum wages, as little as 2 cents an hour! Join self-advocates, families and employment service providers as we work to make wages equitable. Also, in order to have a job, reliable public transportation is needed.

During the pandemic it is more important than ever for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) to be able go to their jobs and succeed. They often have essential jobs and need to have public transportation to and from work. Students in high school need transition services so that they can be working when they leave school, not graduate to the couch.

See the Employment Supports Advocacy Day Agenda here. Download the handouts here. Want a virtual background for this event? Click here!

Let us know how Your Experience was! We want to know how Advocacy Day was for YOU! Please share your experience with us. Our evaluation form is short and easy to fill out, find it online by going to: 2021 Feedback Form
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Families provide the majority of care at home for people with DD, saving our state millions of dollars. Respite care is a critical service, but its difficult to find a provider. Teens and adults with DD and challenging behaviors are taken to hospital emergency rooms and left there with no medical need because the behavior supports they need are not available. Some families can't get services for their child because the family doesn't meet Medicaid financial eligibility. A TEFRA State Plan Option would allow families to "buy-in" to Medicaid. Unlike other services, there can be no wait list. If you qualify, you get served.

Senator John Braun was our guest speaker at Advocacy Day. He is the co-sponsor of SB 5268, a bill that does much good for the DD community. The bill had a hearing in the afternoon after Advocacy Day, with many DD advocates signing in and testifying.

Click here to see the Advocacy Day agenda. Here are the handouts sent to legislators.

Let us know how Your Experience was! We want to know how Advocacy Day was for YOU! Please share your experience with us. Our evaluation form is short and easy to fill out, find it online by going to: 2021 Feedback Form

Each March since President Ronald Reagan established March as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in 1987, the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD) partners with Association for University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) and National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) to create a social media campaign that highlights the many ways in which people with and without disabilities come together to form strong, diverse communities. We will educate legislators and have the Governor's staff share the Governor's Proclamation for this important awareness campaign.

Special Guest: Representative Joe Schmick

Get the virtual background by Ivanova Smith here. Click here to get the agenda. Read the handout for legislators here.

Read Governor Inslee's Proclamation: March 2021 is DD Awareness Month

Let us know how Your Experience was! We want to know how Advocacy Day was for YOU! Please share your experience with us. Our evaluation form is short and easy to fill out, find it online by going to: 2021 Feedback Form

The pandemic has had a huge affect on education services and early intervention for children with DD. With in-person school cancelled and the districts try to figure out virtual classes, children with DD are not receiving the services required in their Individualized Educational Plan (IEP). What can the legislature do to ensure the needs of children who need special education services are not falling further behind?

Get the virtual background by Ivanova Smith here. Here is the handout for Legislators. Click here for the agenda.

Two years ago, a Ruckelshaus workgroup was charged with creating a plan for the future of the RHCs (Residential Habilitation Centers) in our state. Although the plan would downsize and close our RHCs, it also would build a new 120 bed nursing facility on the grounds of one of the RHCs, Fircrest. Governor Inslee put $120 million in his Capital Budget proposal to build this nursing facility for 120 people. We do not want to build new institutions! People want to see skilled nursing available in communities around the state.

Get the virtual background by Ivanova Smith here. Click here for the agenda. Script from Sandi Gruberg. Here are the handouts for legislators.

This week is all about the self-advocates. Building new institutions they are strongly opposed to, but nobody asked them before deciding to build it. People with disabilities have many valuable perspectives. Hear them speak about life in an institution, jobs, marriage, aging, talents and much more! Today is their day!

. Click here for the agenda. Download the artwork for this week by Ivanova Smith Here are the handouts for legislators.

Creating a balanced budget is the one thing legislators are required to do during this legislative session. With many new legislators, it is important that you educate yours about the needs of people with DD. Because COVID-19 has created such an economic catastrophe in our state, revenues were short for a while, but have rebounded. The Governor's budget did not make cuts to DD services, but he added $120 million to build a new nursing facility for about 100 people on the grounds of Fircrest! What he did not do was put any funding in the Housing Trust Fund DD Set-aside for housing in the community. Learn what you can do to help as we wait for the House and Senate to release their budgets soon.

Get the virtual background by Ivanova Smith here. Click here to get the Agenda. Click here for Presentation from Adana Protonentis Home and Community Based Services Access Act HAA. Click here for Presentation from Adrienne Stewart Understanding How Advocates Can Impact the Legislative Budgeting Process. Click here for the 10% HCBS FMAP draft proposal.

On December 18, 2007, the United Nations declared April 2nd to be World Autism Awareness Day, to be observed every year. In 1970, the Autism Society began spreading awareness about autism in the month of April and it is now recognized nationally. It is not enough to be aware of what autism is. We need to be accepting of the many gift autistic people have to share and appreciate the diversity they bring.
Get the virtual background by Ivanova Smith here. Click here for the Agenda. Click here for Speaker: Zack Siddeek - Advocacy Day Autism Speech. Click for Autism Awareness, Acceptance & Appreciation Month Proclamation from Governor Inslee.

Honored Guest: Evelyn Perez, Retiring Assistant Secretary of Developmental Disabilities Administration

NEW! This event will have live closed captioning!

NEW! Spanish interpretation will be provided live!
Zoom link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucumtpj8rHdDoWa2LFxQZb3adW83bek0P
People of color or of indigenous backgrounds, immigrants or LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Trans, Queer or other identities) experience racism and other systemic discrimination challenges. We need to ensure that justice and equity in services is a right afforded to everyone. Our state has passed legislation to work on police injustices, but much needs to be done in other areas such as schools, disability services, mental health needs, housing supports and more. Get the virtual background by Ivanova Smith here.

Special Guest: Senator Emily Randall

NEW! This event will have live closed captioning!
Zoom link to register: Let us know how Your Experience was! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYof-6qqTkoGd1UkOskkNdBukXspEKnWt6Y
NEW! Spanish interpretation will be provided live!

We want to know how Advocacy Day was for YOU! After each Advocacy Day event you will be able to share your experience with us. Our evaluation form is short and easy to fill out, find it online by going to: 2021 Feedback Form

2020 Virtual Advocacy Day Recordings:
Click here to view the Power Point presentation used in the webinar. Our State Budget Crisis
Education Services During COVID-19

Parents of children in school has struggled greatly from the changes that were suddenly made when COVID-19 hit our state. In-person learning quickly changed to an online experience and many students who received special education services no longer had access to them. As September approaches, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) must figure out the challenge of meeting the needs of these students. Watch below for a discussion with Chris Reykdal and Glenna Gallo and parents from our state who share concerns about education services during the pandemic.

The pandemic known as COVID-19 has altered the norm of daily life for all of us. The economic fallout from this crisis has seen many people out of work and state coffers that are completely reliant on people having and spending money in order to bring in the revenue our state needs to fund basic services that people rely on.

On May 13, 2020, Governor Inslee issued a directive to all state agencies to look for reductions in their budgets for what was thought to be a $7 billion shortfall in state revenue. Agencies were told to find savings of 15% that they could propose to cut. To see the proposed cuts from the Developmental Disabilities Administration: Proposed cuts 6-2020.
Click here to view the PDF presentation for July 2nd.
The Arc of Washington State convened a special session of Virtual Advocacy Days, in partnership with the Washington State Developmental Disabilities Council (DDC) and Self Advocates in Leadership (SAIL). Each week had different Guest Legislators and a parent and a self-advocate from each district to talk about how the proposed cuts would be devastating for them. The recorded sessions are below.
Click here to view the PDF presentation for July 9th.
July 2nd: Representative Timm Ormsby (3rd LD) & Senator Ann Rivers (18th LD) View the presentation:
Special Guest: James Kettel, Senate Committee Services Click here to view the PDF presentation for July 16th. July 23rd: Senator Christine Rolfes (23rd LD) & Senator Andy Billig (3rd LD) Click here to view the PDF presentation for July 23rd. July 30th: Senator David Frockt (46th LD) & Representative Tana Senn (41st)
July 9th: Senator Karen Keiser (33rd LD) & Representative Gina Mosbrucker (14th LD) View the presentation:
Click here to view the PDF presentation for July 30th. August 6th: Senator Sharon Brown (8th LD) & Senator John Braun (20th LD) Click here to view the PDF presentation for August 6th.
July 16th: Senator Mark Schoesler (9th LD) & Representative Skyler Rude

Watch Devon Adelman's recorded story here.

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Need additional information? Diana@arcwa.org

Use The Arc's DD 101 to help your legislators understand what services and supports are used by people with I/DD, which agencies provide the services and how they are paid for. The data is provided by the Developmental Disabilities Administration.

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1. Move up, move back
2. Call in, not out​
3.Avoid language that:​

paints a negative picture of disability​

patronizes people with disabilities​

perpetuates misconceptions about disability​

4. Choose language that is consistent with the ideal that lack of access is the problem.​
5. Brave Space:*​

I agree to love, forgive, and take care of myself​

I agree to love others and build an inclusive community​

I agree to be accountable for what I do and say, and to accept that accountability looks different to different people​

I agree to struggle against ableism, racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, misogyny, sizeism, shame and other harmful systems​

I agree to struggle against these harmful systems that I have internalized when they show up in my thoughts and behaviors​

I agree to handle conflict with love and respect​

*Adapted from Brave Space Alliance, the first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ Center located on the South Side of Chicago.