Radio Essay about job discrimination based on psychiatric disabilities. Produced by Miles Eddy.
In 1989 the first statewide consumer/survivor organization in Colorado was founded. Statewide Consumers of Colorado Organized for Rights and Empowerment, known as S.C.C.O.R.E., lasted for nearly six years. S.C.C.O.R.E. brought us together. Mary Elizabeth Van Pelt tells her story of organizing Peer Support Groups in rural Colorado. She says, “I always wanted to make one more new connection and light one more spark of hope.” Our history is important, and when our stories and experiences are discounted by the system consumer/survivors must do the work to keep our history alive for each other and offer hope to the future.
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