Peerless Empathy
What is peer advocacy? This question was posed to a group of peer advocates working for NYWRAC (New York, Westchester, Rockland Advocacy Coalition, part of The Empowerment Center) at their weekly peer-support staff meeting. It was held in building 31, an old psychiatric-nurse dormitory on the campus of Rockland Psychiatric Center. The Peer Advocates shouted out their ideas. Their topics transformed into a definition of peer advocacy. As part of the definition, the advocates d
Your First Day as an Advocate-In-Training
Today is your first day as an advocate-in-training. Today, your “touchpoint” with The Empowerment Center is the opening class of the NYWRAC 25th training and you are a NYWRAC trainee or an advocate-in-training. As president of The Empowerment Center I would like to invite The Empowerment Center members to my Open House and Annual Membership Meeting on October 27, 2009. Who is a member of The Empowerment Center? What does it take to be a TEC member? Let me ask you what does
