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Collective Citizenship in Action: Peer to Peer Community Building Date: June 3, 2020 @ 2:00 pm | Virtual Training Webinar Presenters: Billy Bromage, Community Organizer Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health; Co-chair, Structural
Date: June 3, 2020 @ 2:00 pm | Virtual Training Webinar
Presenters:
Billy Bromage, Community Organizer Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health; Co-chair, Structural Competency Curriculum Committee Yale Department of Psychiatry & Bridgett Williamson, Co-Director Citizens Project in New Haven, CT Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health
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Recovery and Community Health in partnership with:
Department of Psychiatry
Improvement
Mission To use evidence-based means to disseminate evidence-based practices across the New England region. Area of Focus Recovery-Oriented Practices, including Recovery Support Services, within the Context
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Billy Bromage received his Master’s in Social Work degree, with a concentration in community organization, from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work in
mental health and food assistance in New Haven, CT for
Recovery and Community Health since 2011. He works as a community organizer, developing projects with grassroots leaders, people with mental illnesses, DMHAS- funded programs, other nonprofit organizations, city and state government officials, and other civic leaders to promote mental health and inclusion in New Haven
has also supported and helped to develop coalitions to sustain community-level inclusion and food security
Competency Curriculum Committee in the Yale Department of Psychiatry since 2015.
Billy Bromage Community Organizer Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health; Co- chair, Structural Competency Curriculum Committee Yale Department of Psychiatry
Bridgett Williamson is currently the Co-Director of the Citizens Project in New Haven, CT, for Yale’s Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH). She has worked in the field of Peer Support Services for approximately 11
House, Inc. in New Haven, CT. She has been with PRCH since 2007, starting first as a casual employee to becoming a Research Assistant in 2013. Her contribution to the work of citizens-oriented care, community
nationally and internationally. Bridgett has presented in Montreal and Glasgow. According to Bridgett, “I love my work, I can be myself. I don’t have to pretend. When I’m working with my peers, I meet them where they’re at. I know that I’m not always going to connect with people right away, but in time, once they see that I’m not going anywhere, the walls come down.”
Bridgett Williamson Co-Director Citizens Project in New Haven, CT Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health
framework
action, including a specific initiative in New Haven, CT
recovering citizenship and collective citizenship
do
the collective citizenship framework
during COVID-19
webinar participants in discussion about how collective citizenship might work in their organizations
in the community
intervention
Recovery: “living one’s life as best and fully as
face of a mental illness that won’t go away” Adapting environment and still providing supports
Inspired by Disability Rights movement
Fear of risk among practitioners (e.g., clients aiming to high)
People will make their choices anyway
Recovery has paid less attention to the societal conditions in which the process happens, like poverty and racism “Two path” citizenship approaches of individual support and community change “Do it now” approach, aligned with Housing First and Supported Employment “Systems of care are not equipped to support people’s valued community membership and participation”
mental health service systems
being possessed or portioned out by a paid professional
as common-cause partners, not as designated leaders
providers to community members with lived experience of marginalization has to occur
but rather provides relationships, mutual support to act collectively to secure rights
social service providers to community members with lived experience
large, but not specifically focused on mental illness
group-building process – definitely not linear
at each meeting
the expert on their own community experiences
connector to community assets and networks, peer support
expert
thing
large
community
marginalizing
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Visit: http://www.mhttcnetwork.org/newnengland E-mail: newengland@mhttcnetwork.org Billy Bromage billy.bromage@yale.edu Bridgett Williamson bridgett.williamson@yale.edu