about

contact us

Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/23/2007 - 17:06.

You can phone us at 877 677 6424, or write: Freedom Center Box 623 Northampton, MA 01062 or email info(at)freedom-center(dot)org. Please note: we are all volunteer, if you do not hear back from us right away please be patient and try again. The best way to reach us is in person at our groups classes and events. Thanks!

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Email Lists

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/21/2007 - 03:34.

Read our open discussion list (FC-Discuss) here for all kinds of forwarded emails, news items, announcements, and discussions:

http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/fc-discuss

 

Read our Announcement list (FC-Announce) archive:

https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/fc-announce

 

Read more about subcribing to our email lists.

 

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Want to Volunteer?

Submitted by heather on Tue, 05/29/2007 - 10:30.
If you would like to volunteer with Freedom Center, here are a few suggestions that would make a big difference!
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Welcome

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/21/2007 - 04:21.

Freedom Center is a support and activism community run by and for people labeled with severe 'mental disorders.' We call for compassion, human rights, self-determination, and holistic options. We create alternatives to the mental health system's widespread despair, abuse, fraudulent science and dangerous treatments.

"The Freedom Center is one of a collection of grassroots organizations springing up across the country in reaction to the prevalance of medication in America. It alerts people to the downside of psychiatric drugs but does not try to force people off them: it seeks instead to help sufferers find the best methods of coping, even if their solution is unconventional by the standards of the medical establishment."
Forbes magazine, Sept. 6, 2004 p.122

Freedom Center's goals are:

  • to end all force and coercion, including involuntary treatment and forced drugging;
  • to ensure access to resources such as housing is without strings and not conditional on treatment "compliance;"
  • to defend human rights and ensure protective laws and regulations are enforced;
  • to ensure all treatment decisions are based on true informed consent and accurate information about risks;
  • to change drugging as the medical standard of care for psychosis;
  • to end all psych drugging of children and offer alternatives instead;
  • to support effective alternatives such as nutrition, exercise, holistic health care, nature and animals;
  • to provide voluntary, non-paternalistic social supports such as peer-run programs, housing, income, and individual and family therapy;
  • to create Soteria House-style options;
  • to expose psychiatric and pharmaceutical industry myths, propaganda, and corruption;
  • to end wasteful bureaucracies and expensive professional elites;
  • to break the silence around trauma and abuse;
  • to end fear and misunderstanding of "madness" and extreme states of consciousness;
  • and to make common cause with progressive movements for social justice and ecological balance.

    • Also, download our general brochure (legal size paper) for info about us.
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Origins, History, and Vision

Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 12:14.
Written in March '03, this summary looks at how we got started and what we stand for. Also check out our brochure on the Resources page.
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Media Coverage of Freedom Center

Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/18/2007 - 19:17.
Media coverage of Freedom Center including local and national press and articles written by Freedom Center members.
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Peer Educator Guidelines working draft

Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/15/2006 - 21:03.

Our 02-26-07 draft of the

Freedom Center Peer Educators Guidelines:

Overview and Working Guidelines For Representatives, Organizers, and Peer Counselors, Including our Mission Statement and Preramble

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Creative Commons Site Copyright, Sharing, and Fair Use

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/15/2006 - 22:03.
Want to copy anything on our site and distribute it or put it on your own website or otherwise share it around? Sounds good, we want you to! Just read this first.
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