Tag: POCC
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Remembering Jay Mahler
PEERS commemorates the life and work of a pioneer in the Bay Area mental health and peer community By PEERS Staff It is with great sadness that we share the news that long time mental health advocate Jay Mahler passed away last week. For the past 50 years, Jay worked tirelessly to improve mental health…
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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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TAY at the POCC 50 Year History TAY Event
Yesterday, PEERS’ Transition Age Youth (TAY) program participated in the POCC 50 Year History Project’s TAY History meeting. This meeting focused on reviewing the history of the TAY Empowerment Movement in Alameda County — a movement that PEERS has been involved in for more than a decade. PEERS Programs Manager Bre Williams spoke about her…
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Jay Mahler at LEVS
At today’s Lift Every Voice and Speak meeting, mental health consumer movement organizer Jay Mahler spoke about an upcoming collaboration between PEERS’ LEVS group and the POCC 50 Year History project. This partnership will see POCC members trained by PEERS’ speak’s bureau to help with the project’s events and outreach. During the remainder of the…
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PEERS @ the POCC Picnic
Last Friday, PEERS joined in at the POCC picnic in San Leandro. With music, good food, and beautiful weather — an uplifting time was had by all! PEERS works in conjunction with the POCC to increase social inclusion and decrease stigma in Alameda County.
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POCC “50-Year History of the Mental Health Consumer Movement” Event
Today PEERS’ Associate Director Lynn Rivas spoke at the POCC “50-Year History of the Mental Health Consumer Movement” event in Oakland. Attendees also celebrated the birthday of renowned movement organizer Jay Mahler. Lynn spoke about the history of PEERS as a consumer-run organization before screening an interview that PEERS/BestNow! Intern Steve Hayes’ conducted with Jay Mahler.
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Two PEERS Staff Members Win Awards at POCC Annual Conference
Yesterday at the POCC’s 6th Annual Awards and Conference Program at the Oakland Hilton, two PEERS staff members won awards. Program Coordinator Basilia Padilla won the Peer Specialist of the Year Award for her work on the Everyone Counts Campaign’s Latino/a/x community focus. Program Coordinator Lyndsey Ellis won the Consumer Run Organization Employee of the Year Award for her work with POCC comittees…
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Interview with Consumer Movement Organizer Jay Mahler
PEERS’ BestNow! Intern Steve Hayes recently interviewed Consumer Movement organizer Jay Mahler about his life, activism, and the history of the movement. Check out this amazing interview!
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A Proposed Marriage Between Faith & Mental Wellbeing
On Saturday, January 7th, two PEERS Program Coordinators, Lyndsey Ellis and Kozi Arrington, attended the Mental Health-Friendly Communities congregational orientation at the South Bay Community Church in Fremont. The orientation, headed by Pastor Horacio Jones of Fremont’s Family Bible Fellowship, Gigi Crowder, and Minister Monique Tarver (also known as the MHFC Training Team), accurately assessed…
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PEERS at POCC
For the last five years, the Pool of Consumer Champions hosts their annual conference. Every year PEERS closes their office to attend the conference. The 5th Annual POCC Conference was the first I had the opportunity of attending. I walked in on the morning of the first day, not really knowing what to expect, but…