2022 Vermont Mad Pride Day Program

Saturday, July 16, 2022 12 - 3 PM Battery Park Burlington, Vermont

March Route

Battery Park

Hood Plant Parking Lot

ssemble at Hood Plant Parking Lot on King Street A between South Winooski Avenue and Church Street before 12 PM. March officially begins at Church and Main Streets at 12 PM. T-shirts, water and bathrooms available at Hood Plant Parking Lot and Battery Park.

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Program Before 12:00 PM

Assemble Hood Plant Parking Lot

12:00 PM

March begins Church and Main Streets

12:30 PM

Tabling and Lunch Battery Park Feminine Aggression band

1:00 PM

Welcome Ericka Reil, MC Mad Pride Day Proclamation Mayor’s Office Speakers: Chris Hansen Wilda White Calvin Moen

1:45 PM

Root7, a cappella group

2:00 PM

Keynote Sean Donovan

2:15 PM

Jodi Girouard, poet

2:25 PM

Speakers: Sarah Launderville Hilary Melton Clare Pledl Ken Russell

2:45 PM

This Could Be It band

All times are approximate

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Equal Rights, Protection, and Participation Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, Inc. is an independent, statewide mutual support and civil rights advocacy organization run by and for psychiatric survivors.

Founded in 1983, we offer mutual support, publish a quarterly newspaper (scan QR code to read) that is distributed throughout Vermont, offer patient representation in Vermont psychiatric hospitals and residential facilities, sponsor peer-led support groups, advocate and educate to challenge discrimination, and offer technical assistance to allied organizations.

Scan to read Counterpoint newspaper: www.vermontpsychiatricsurvivors.org

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About the Keynote Sean Donovan (he/him/his) currently works with the City of Northampton as Implementation Director of the new Department of Community Care.

In this role, he draws upon his past experiences as a peer advocate, group facilitator and trainer with the Wildflower Alliance and many stories of institutional trauma and practicing other possibilities as guides for developing a first responder team other than police and fire called Community Responses for Establishing Safety Together (CREST).

Housed within public health but shifting what’s possible in public safety and 911-initiated calls, CREST will be trained in non-coercive dialogue-based support practices, community mediation and emergency medical responses.

A couple antidotes to this challenging job as a mad-identified and sound-obsessed person are: solidarity support conversations and the punk band he shares with two amazing women, Feminine Aggression.

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Sponsors TR AILBLAZERS

Disability Rights Vermont LMW Design UVM Health Network VAMHAR Vermont Center for Independent Living (VCIL) Vermont Psychiatric Survivors

ALLIES

Howard Center Pathways Vermont Mental Health Initiative, a program of United Way of Northwest Vermont Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council Wilda L. White Consulting

PARTNERS

American Academy of Pediatrics Vermont Chapter Vermont Academy of Family Physicians Another Way Community Center Vermont Association of Hospitals and Hospital Systems Vermont Department of Public Safety Vermont Student Assistance Corporation

SUPPORTERS

Center for Health and Learning Counseling Service of Addison County Parker Advisors, LLC Vermont Cooperative for Practice Improvement & Innovation Vermont Medical Society Vermont State Colleges

CONTRIBUTORS City Market Patrick LeDuc Monica White

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Promoting Health and Happiness Since 1939 The Vermont Association for Mental Health and Addiction Recovery is a statewide information and advocacy organization that supports all paths to recovery from addiction and mental health conditions. Since 1939, VAMHAR has worked to promote mental wellness in Vermont, and to be the state’s voice in education, training and community support.

Programs Recovery Vermont – this is the place to find out information on VAMHAR’s Recovery Coach Academy and other events and trainings VADIC – Visit the Vermont Alcohol and Drug Information Clearinghouse for free informational resources pertaining to recovery and mental health conditions. www.vamhar.org

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The University of Vermont Health Network is an integrated academic health system that serves more than one million residents across Vermont and Northern New York. We are working to preserve access to care for our families, friends and communities while also innovating to change the way that care is delivered to focus on wellness as much as illness and to control costs.

Our Network University of Vermont Medical Center UVM Health Network – Medical Group Central Vermont Medical Center Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Elizabethtown Community Hospital Alice Hyde Medical Center Porter Medical Center Home Health & Hospice www.uvmhealth.org

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Speaker Bios Feminine Aggression is a punk rock band based in Northampton, Massachusetts, whose members include Sean Donovan, Crystal Ford, and Tanya Pearson.

Jodi Girouard has been writing since she learned to hold a pencil. She spends time writing poetry for others to uplift spirits and bring more compassion to the world. She has written three books, and this latest one, Living with the Neighbors, came out late last year. It is her memoir of living with a severe mental illness and reaching out for help through faith, nature, and communities.

Jodi serves on the Howard Center Board, and volunteers at NAMI and other organizations to reduce stigma attached to living with a mental illness. She wants the world to break down barriers so to lift up those that still hide from fear of stigma. She does this through sharing her story.

Jodi is interested in conversations that foster compassion and further understanding.

Jodi is a native Vermonter who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education and English and has a blog, Jodigirouard.wordpress.com, that she writes weekly.

Her book, Living with the Neighbors, will be available to purchase.

Chris Hansen, a New Zealander by birth, is a co-director of Intentional Peer Support, and has been co-teaching and developing Intentional Peer Support in the United States and in other countries with Shery Mead for the past 16 years.

Chris has spent twenty-five years involved in local, regional, national and international

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Speaker Bios Continued >> peer support and advocacy initiatives, and in mental health sector advocacy, lobbying and politics from a service user perspective. Before her promotion to certified service-user Chris worked as a clinician and manager in a mental health service in New Zealand.

Chris was a member of the New Zealand delegation to the United Nations for the development of the Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; has served on the board of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry and has played a key role in the development of several peer-run crisis alternatives.

Sarah Launderville, is a psychiatric survivor and is the Executive Director of the Vermont Center for Independent Living. She’s been involved in disability justice work since 1997. She serves on many boards and committees addressing issues of disability inclusion and is the President of the Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights. She has hope that celebrations like this bring people together where we collectively can feel our influence and power.

Hilary Melton is the founder and current Executive Director of Pathways Vermont which has been providing housing and innovative mental health services in communities across the state of Vermont since 2009. Hilary has worked in shelters, street outreach, and administered supported housing programs in New York City and Vermont.

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Calvin Moen is a psychiatric survivor, advocate and educator on topics including alternatives to policing and incarceration, intersections of queer and Mad struggles, trauma-informed emergency services and harm reduction approach to psychiatric drugs. He is a former coordinator for the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community and a co-founder and organizer of the Brattleboro-based Hive Mutual Support Network. Calvin is a published author and is co-editor of Much Madness: A Survivor’s Guide to Extreme States and Self Advocacy for Young Adults.

Clare Pledl works as an Advocate with Disability Rights Vermont. Clare graduated from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN in 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies and Sociology. Clare moved to Vermont several years ago to attend Vermont Law School. While at Vermont Law School, Clare earned a Juris Doctorate and a Master of Arts in Restorative Justice. Clare is passionate about disability justice and human rights issues.

Root7 is a small, mixed ensemble a cappella group whose passion for music brings them together from across the Champlain Valley. Members include Joe Antonioli, Ted Assur, Hilary Delisle, Kat Hobart, Chris Nial, Mary Kate Shanahan, Jake Spiegler, Noah Vaccaro, Cynthia Yopp, and Sophie Zeif.

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on trend | on target | on time LMW Design is a boutique creative collaborative specializing in branding strategy and visual communication for social service organizations, the health & wellness industry, and unique passion projects. Services include brand building, graphic design, website design, and social media outreach.

Partial Client List: Vermont Psychiatric Survivors MadFreedom Wilda L. White Windham & Windsor Housing Trust Housing Trust of Rutland County Community Care Network Family Mediators Right to Wellness

www.lmwdesign.com

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Speaker Bios Continued >> Ken Russell is executive director of Another Way Community Center, located in Montpelier, Vermont. A native Vermonter, he lived in the Bay Area for 20 years where he worked on racial justice and police practices, homelessness, prison reform and abolition. He considers himself an ally of the psychiatric survivor movement.

This Could Be It (Western Mass/Southern VT) are old, tired punk dads who play deep dark skeletal songs at the end of the world. Members are Wyatt Andrews, Willie Gussin, and Calvin Rey Moen.

Wilda White is a Mad activist and founder of MadFreedom, Inc., an advocacy organization whose mission is to end the discrimination and oppression of people based on their perceived mental state. She lives in Poultney with Marley, her black lab.

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Mad Pride Day PLANNING COMMITTEE

Mad Pride Day VOLUNTEERS

Clara Duman Sarah Launderville Linda Meleady Calvin Moen Nick Morlan Chris Nial Lindsey Owen Clare Pledl Ericka Reil Camille Royce Ken Russell Wilda White

Edward Burke Wright Cronin Danielle LaRoe Lori Demers Sarah Fish Lucy Gluck Milly Launderville Derek Malbroux Lois Nial Ward Nial Joe Reil Patrick Stanton Patricia Tedesco Daniel Towle

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Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council

Pathways Vermont

Howard Center

Wilda L. White

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