News & Stories
Lisa Hansen – Change Agent
I am a Recreation Therapist who has worked at the Northeast Mental Health Team for 4 years and in community mental health for over 20 years. My manager is on the Advisory Board for the Imagining Inclusion…
Tracy Windsor – Peer Researcher
I’ve been a Peer Researcher with Imagining Inclusion since March, 2017. I learned about this research project through the Spotlight on Mental Health email list. One of the goals of the research project was to provide…
Kirsty – Peer Participant
I am fairly new to the Open Door Group. I had only been there about three months when I decided that my first program would be Telling Your Story and Being Heard. I was intrigued by the prospect of telling a piece of my story…
Imagining Inclusion E-Newsletter: The Complexities of Advocacy
Welcome to our second Imagining Inclusion newsletter. We have been busy all summer and into the fall with many project activities, including the Telling Your Story program and the Peer Researcher training…
Celebrating Peers: Telling Your Story and Being Heard Program
IMAGINING INCLUSION PROGRAMS Celebrating Peers: Telling Your Story and Being Heard Program Participants bravely shared their personal experiences of living with mental illness. The Telling Your Story and Being Heard program was developed because we were inspired by...
Peer Researcher Training Has Begun
IMAGINING INCLUSION PROGRAMS Peer Researcher Training Has Begun Our Peer Researchers have been involved in all stages of the Peer Research Training from creating the curriculum, coordinating the application process, organizing the training and teaching the program....
May Chow – Change Agent
I’ve worked as a Recreation Therapist with the Thrive Program at Open Door Group for about 10 years. Although I have 13 years of experience working with clients who live with mental illness, I wasn’t sure what to expect by participating…
Welcome to our first Imagining Inclusion E-Newsletter
Welcome to our first Upstream Change e-newsletter! Imagining Inclusion: Creating Upstream Change in Community Mental Health is a 3-year community based participatory research project…
Upcoming Peer Researcher Training – Fall 2018
Imagining Inclusion will be offering a 10 week Peer Researcher training in fall of 2018 with an updated curriculum. The training focuses on all aspects of community based participatory research…
Telling Your Story and Being Heard
Telling Your Story and Being Heard is an eight-week program that began in May and is running concurrently at the North East Mental Health Team and the thrive program at Open Door Group…
“MG” – Photovoice Participant
I have been a client of the Open Door Group for about two years. My recreation therapist referred me to Photovoice project because I love taking pictures so it was a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with something that I used to enjoy…
Amanda Berg
I have been a Peer Researcher on both phases of the Imagining Inclusion project. I saw a posting in 2013 on the Family and Consumer’s email list and thought it would be interesting. Since I have been on the project for so long…