http://www.drc.gov.uk/whatwedo/MHAG1.asp
Twelve Key Priorities
- Employment: increasing opportunities in recruitment, including removing benefit disincentives
- Better access to advocacy services
- Education: ensuring access and non-discrimination for students with mental health problems
- Access to justice
- Rights to health and social care services that support independent living
- A principled position on mental health law
- Clear workable anti-discrimination law
- Tackling discrimination in the media, advertising and public debate
- Challenging bio-ethical assumptions
- Immigration, refugees and asylum seekers: preventing discriminatory immigration and deportation policy
- A built environment and transport system accessible to mental health service users
- An overall approach that gives confidence in the commitment of disability organisations to mental health service users' rights.
email from L. D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D.
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