http://www.power2u.org/

Our Mission

To carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people with lived experience with mental health issues, trauma, and and/or extreme states. 

Purpose

As a consumer/survivor/expatient-run organization, we carry out our mission with authority, as each of us is living a personal journey of recovery and empowerment. We are convinced that recovery and empowerment are not the privilege of a few exceptional leaders, but rather are possible for each person with lived experience. Whether on the back ward of a state mental institution or working as an executive in a corporation, we want people who are mental health consumers/survivors/expatients to know there is a place to turn to in order to receive the information they might need in order to regain control over their lives and the resources that affect their lives. That place is the National Empowerment Center.

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Training and Education

NEC staff speak at conferences, both large and small. We often give keynote addresses on topics such as recovery, empowerment, advocacy and self-help. Our workshops include the Hearing Voices Workshop (see the NEC store for details), as well as workshops focusing on trauma, women's issues in mental health, recovery strategies, alternative/complimentary services and re-visioning mental health systems on a recovery model. We receive dozens of requests every year to speak at conferences. We estimate that in 2004 through lecturing we were able to bring a message of recovery and empowerment, hope and healing, to 30,000 people.


Information and Referral

NEC has a toll-free information and referral line. You can reach us Monday through Friday, Eastern Standard Time, during regular work hours. A Spanish speaking information specialist is also available. We have a great deal of information about topics such as advance directives, shock treatment, schizophrenia, self-help groups and advocacy organizations in your area, meditation and self-help techniques, coping with depression, and more. If we don't have the information you need, we will work with you to find it. Give us a call!

Toll free: 800-POWER2U (800-769-3728)
Outside the U.S.: 978-685-1494
Local: 978-685-1494