Fay Jackson Deputy Mental Health Commissioner My time line 10 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Fay Jackson Deputy Mental Health Commissioner

My time line

10 years - deep depression, suicidal 14 years - psychosis 20s

• told by psychiatrists "you will never work and you'll never be a

valuable member of the community" 37 years - started volunteer work with Rotary Health Research Fund and beyondblue 40 years - appointed as two-day per week Peer Worker at public mental health service, full time within two months, manager within six months, director within two years 45 years - CEO of Vision In Mind 52 years - appointed Deputy Mental Health Commissioner 54 years - General Manager Inclusion, Flourish Australia

Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. What is being taken down and forcibly injected? What is being locked into seclusion and restraint and being forced to clean your

• wn facies?

What is being forced to take medication that makes you obese, significantly negatively affects your quality of life and shortens your life expectancy? What is being placed on a CTO? This is not recovery focused!!!!!

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Protectin ing th the integrit ity of f th the person Arti rticle le 17 of f th the Co Conventio ion states th that every perso son with th disabili ilitie ies has as a a righ right to resp spect for r his s or r her r physic ical l an and mental l in integrit ity on an equal l bas asis is with th oth thers. Righ ight to heal alth

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specif ifie ies th that "p "persons with ith disa isabil ilit itie ies have th the rig right to th the enjo joyment of f th the hig ighest attain inable le standard of f healt lth with ithout discrimination on the basis of disability.” http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities we are a signatory

Absolute rights Some human rights are absolute — there is never any justification for violating them. These rights prohibit officials and

• thers from committing genocide, slavery, summary executions,

torture and racial discrimination. Also absolute are the personal

freedoms of thought, conscience, religion and belief. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Absolute Rights Questionable in Oz

Article 15 - Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

• 1. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or

degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his or her free consent to medical or scientific experimentation.

• 2. States Parties shall take all effective legislative, administrative,

judicial or other measures to prevent persons with disabilities, on an equal basis with others, from being subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Living standards The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights both recognise a number of rights which promote a minimum standard

• f living for everyone. They include the rights to education,

work, health care and to a social security safety net.

Read Prof Bernadette McSherry Melbourne University

From Self Respect Comes Dignity From Dignity Comes Hope If Not You…..Who? If Not Now......When? If Not Here.....Where?

Questions – Fay Jackson

• What scares you about making large, brave changes?
• What is blocking that change? How will you unblock it? Why not do it anyway?
• When you are on your death bed, how will your contribution to recovery and

wellbeing be remembered?

• Doing what you've always done, you will get what you've always got! So what are

you going to do today, this week, next month to bring about major positive change?

• Why not A Peer Worker?
• If not you, who? If not now, when?