47278 Mapleton Line
Aylmer, ON
N5H 2R6
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The South Western Alliance Network (SWAN) is a not for profit regional organization comprised of psychiatric consumer survivor groups throughout the South Western Ontario Region.
SWAN's Goals Are To:
* Identify, discuss and act as a potential resource around issues
related to consumer survivors in the south west.
* Reduce isolation by encouraging support and friendship among consumer survivor initiatives in the south west.
* Encourage and promote self-esteem and mental wellness.
* Encourage liaison between consumer survivor initiatives, service
providers and government.
* Promote awareness and understanding of consumer survivor issues to the general public and service providers.
* Provide information, education and resource materials to
consumer survivor initiatives.
SWAN Reaches It's Goals By:
* Quarterly membership meetings around issues and/or concerns and
the struggles of psychiatric consumer survivor groups in the South Western Ontario Region.
* Promotion of awareness among the community regarding the opinions, needs and rights of psychiatric consumer survivors in the South Western Ontario Region.
* Ensuring representation of psychiatric consumer survivors on
boards, committees and task forces that deal with issues that affect the psychiatric consumer survivor communities in the Southwest of Ontario.
* Keeping informed of mental health reform in the South Western
Ontario Region.
* Linkage and communication with other regional psychiatric consumer survivor groups throughout South Western Ontario as well as provincially and nationally, including the Ontario Peer Development Initiative.
* Networking with Community Agencies, Hospitals, Patient Councils,
Provider Groups, the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care and the Government.
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