In Remembrance of the Magnitude of Human Warehousing
As mental institutions are torn down across the U.S. and replaced by luxury apartments, the...
Peer Specialists Are Not Clinicians
Peer Specialists are an emerging workforce in behavioral health. Many Peer Specialists work...
Finding Holiday Peace Through Forgiveness
Old hurts can surface during the holiday season. I offer this video reflection as a gift to...
What berry picking can teach us about running an abundant business
I have been meaning to write this post for at least 4 years. It's easy to get too busy and to...
Celebrating the Life of Eddie Taylor
We just received the sad news that Eddie Taylor, a peer specialist in Kansas City, KS, has...
Telepsychiatry and CommonGround
Recently we had the opportunity to meet with peer staff, clinicians and administrators of...
Are You Low Functioning?
The phrase low functioning is pejorative, despite the fact that it is widely used in...
CommonGround and IDD
Some thought people with intellectual development disorders and co-occurring mental health...
Trauma and the Journey Home to Our Bodies
Those of us who survived child abuse learned to fear and "leave" our bodies. Adopting new health...
Reflection on the 25th Anniversary of the ADA
On July 26th, 1990 President George H. W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities...
CommonGround Guides
CommonGround Guides put recovery tools directly into the hands of the people who need them. Each Guide contains education, workbook style exercises, Personal Medicine Cards, tracking tools and reflection questions.
Work & the Dignity of Risk
Sometimes staff are reluctant to refer folks to Supported Employment and Education Specialists. In this E-Learning course, Pat Deegan will teach you a recovery-oriented framework for managing risk and supporting choice.
Recovery Library
The Hope. The Tools. The inspiration to recover after a diagnosis of mental illness. Recovery Library offers thousands of resources to support recovery and is available for individuals and programs.
Author
Pat Deegan
My partner and I founded a company run by and for people in recovery. The mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end I developed the CommonGround Program including Software and the Distressing Voices Simulation.
