
Episode description
Akiko Hart, CEO of the National Survivor User Network (NSUN), shares user-led mental health initiatives and key learnings from the pandemic period in conversation with researcher China Mills. In response to Covid-19, NSUN launched a fund for user-led groups, supporting diverse and self-directed approaches to community mental health.
The full transcript is available via our website: healingjusticeldn.org/through-the-portal/
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Lived-Experience Mental Health in Times of Covid-19 is part of Through the Portal: Healing Justice Beyond Pandemic - a community-led public health programme through a disability justice and anti-oppression lens. The programme was launched by Healing Justice Ldn in response to the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on communities that are marginalised.