Category: Special Messages
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A PEERS Journey: PEERS and the History of the Mental Health Consumer Movement
Since 2016, the Pool of Consumer Champions (POCC) has been spearheading a project to review, curate, and present materials relating to the 50 year history of the Mental Health Consumer Movement. Community organizer Jay Mahler has been at the forefront of the effort, contributing documents and materials, and organizing ancillary events commemorating certain aspects of…
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Special Messages Resumes on September 21st
Starting Thursday September 21st 2017, PEERS will again be providing Special Messages support groups. These groups are facilitated by Tim Dreby every Thursday from 5pm-7pm at PEERS, 333 Hegenberger Rd. Oakland CA Suite 250. Please call (510) 832-7337 for more information. The Special Messages Peer Support Group challenges the mainstream view of “psychosis” with the concept of “Special…
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Special Messages Group Starts Sept. 21st
Starting Thursday September 21st, PEERS will again be providing Special Messages support groups. Special Messages is for anybody who experiences special messages or is interested in messages, voices, visions, coded messages, unusual feelings, special intuition and more (essentially anything normally pathologized as “psychosis”). These groups are facilitated by Tim Dreby every Thursday from 5pm-7pm at…
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East Bay Gives on May 4th — Donate to Special Messages!
Dear Friends and Supporters of PEERS, In the very near future, PEERS will be participating in an online fundraiser called East Bay Gives—a one day community giving event that takes place on May 4th, 2017. This year, we are hoping to raise $1000 for our Special Messages program. Special Messages is an extremely unique peer support…