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16 Jun, 4 tweets, 4 min read
Judith Heumann a lifelong #advocate for rights of disabled people — one of the most influential voices in the disability rights movement said — "Independent living is not doing things by yourself. It is being in #charge of how things are done."
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#UserLed #PeerLeaders #HomeAgain
This quote describes the #essence behind Home Again as an approach.
During the course of time the innovation and its #ethos has been shaped, directed and scaled-up by marginalised folks with psychosocial disabilities allowing many others like them to frame their #unique pathways and aspirations to well-being with #agency and #autonomy.
We at @banyanbalm look forward to #celebrating and amplifying more user-led narratives across services in the years to come.

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16 Jun
Home Again has been #acknowledged by @WHO as one of the 25 best practices of Community Mental Health Services from around the world.
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#HomeAgain #GoodPractice #Values #Principles
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The compilation provides in-depth information on the elements that contribute towards the development of good practice services that meet international human rights standards and that promote a person-centred, recovery approach.
Home Again as an innovation integrally operates without coercion, is responsive to people’s needs, supports recovery, promotes autonomy and inclusion, and involves people with lived experience in the development, delivery and monitoring of services.
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14 Jun
Read this article in @NewIndianXpress which highlights the recent listing of Home Again as a good practice innovation by @WHO, including quotes from #PallaviRohatgi, #VanithaRajesh of @banyanbalm & @DesirajuKeshav.
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“A large number of homeless people with mental health issues admitted in institutions are unable to get out of these institutions due to factors like poverty and homelessness. To address this, we piloted the Home Again project in 2015,” said Pallavi Rohatgi, @banyanbalm.
The intervention has been implemented in neighbourhoods in Chennai, villages in Trichy and Kancheepuram districts of Tamil Nadu, Malappuram and Thrissur in Kerala, Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.
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8 Mar 20
Gender based discrimination and unremitting violence eliminates spaces for women and girls to exist and be as we are.
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Illustration Credit: @prrr_butt
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✊ #InternationalWomensDay #INWD2020 Four women of different ages in colourful clothing and two dogs are occupying space under a tree against a brick wall.
Women are required to labour tirelessly, take up multiple roles, navigate abuse and assault in power less relationships and conform to expectations set by others.
There is a need to reappraise these understandings in the context of disparities faced by women who experience homelessness and psychosocial disabilities.
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27 Jan 20
A quarter of a million people with psychosocial disabilities were killed, nearly half a million sterilised - the majority among them those diagnosed with schizophrenia, a label that automatically devalued worth based on eugenics propaganda.
#NeverAgain #HolocaustMemorialDay
Studies indicate that between 1939 to 1955, an estimate of 220 000 - 269 000 people (equalling 73% to 100% of individuals with schizophrenia in Germany) were marked as "untermenschen, or subhuman", categorized as expendable and exterminated.
Meticulously documented post - war records estimated savings "gained" from the killing of mentally ill patients of state funded metal institutions.
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9 Oct 19
#NationalReportOnLongStay #WorldMentalHealthDay
Survey of service users across 43 state psychiatric hospitals, 24 states shows 36.25% of people had lived within the confines of these facilities for one year or more.
Median duration of stay was 6 years; 1 in 10 had lived within these psychiatric facilities for 25 years or more, including one person who had spent all of 62 years of her life inside an institution.
Over three-quarters were living in closed wards – that is locked spaces with no time outdoors; at the time of survey 47 participants were living in solitary confinement in cells.
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