Mental Health

Session materials from “Mental Health Crises in Housing Cooperatives: A Consent and Context-Based Approach” presented by James Gleespen at NASCO Institute 2024. Mental health crises are common in housing cooperatives, but it can be difficult to know how to respond. In addition, traditional teachings about how to respond to crises can conflict with principles we value, like consent, and can perpetuate oppressive harm. In this session, you’ll learn how to respond to mental health crises in your co-op in a way that prioritizes consent and protects the autonomy of the individual in crisis.

Session outline and group activity scenarios from a workshop titled "Mental Health Concerns and How to Address Them", presented by Gabriel Cojocariu and Kerry Barron (Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated) at NASCO Institute 2017.

These materials are from a workshop titled "Keeping Yourself and Community Safe - Protest Health and Safety", presented by Noah Saperstein at NASCO Institute 2017.

This presentation and workbook are from a workshop titled U"npacking Violence: Liberation Within Chaos" presented by the D.O.P.E. Collective Savion Mingo, Jason Cathcart, and Caitlin Blue at NASCO Institute 2017.

Action Camp: Lessons Learned

Table of Contents
Assumptions
Anti-Oppression: Key Words
Fabric of Oppression
Levels and Types of Oppression: Examples
Organizing and Facilitation Tools
Starting a Diversity Committee in Your Co-op
Activities/Discussion Starters
Further Resources
Websites and Collectives
Books, Readings, and Publications
Movies

TABLA DE CONTENIDOS Contra la Opresión: Introducción El entramado de la Opresión - 2 Contra la Opresión: Palabras Claves - 3 Niveles y Tipos de Opresión: Ejemplos - 6 Ser un Aliado Qué es ser aliado? Lo básico. - 8 Superando el prejuicio de edad - 11 Ser un Hombre Aliado - 13 Ser un Heterosexual Aliado - 15 Ser Aliado de un Trans – 16

This is the packet that action campers receive prior to Action Camp to ensure a basic understanding of issues being discussed at Action Camp.

Examples of different types of oppression existing in society at the Individual, Cultural, and Institutional levels.

This is a 2007 study of housing cooperatives in the upper Midwest (in Madison, Chicago and Iowa City) entitled 'Housing Cooperatives and Health'. It aims to investigate the relationships between living in a housing cooperatives and tenant-shareholders' physical and emotional health. Questions and comments welcome. Contact Jeff Bessmer (jeffbessmer@gmail.com).