News & Stories
Keep up to date with project announcements, participant stories, and upcoming events.
Imagining Inclusion Project Message
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…
Imagining Inclusion Experiences
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…
“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…
Imagining Inclusion Programs
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…