Diversity and Strength (Mission Statement)

Martin Koehler & Cathy A. Levin

The mission of Voices for CHANGE, the newsletter of M-POWER is to inform, educate and inspire.

To inform our readers with a forum for memoirs, opinions and ideas.
To publish stories about people’s own struggle to recover from psychiatric disability.
To empower people to build meaningful lives on the ashes of trauma.
To provide information on policy decisions, programs and opportunities within M-POWER and the Transformation Center.
To educate our readers about the thinking of national and local leaders in the recovery movement.
To educate consumer/survivors about our rightful place in the social system, and about civil rights and entitlements.
To inspire people by an awareness of our potential power by featuring the work of author’s who have made something of themselves.
To inspire persistence in the face of stigma, bigotry, discrimination, pessimism, helplessness and political defeatism.
To inspire self-esteem through role models among our peers in the movement.
To advocate politically, both individually and as members of an oppressed class of people.
And, most of all, to cheer on and applaud for non-traditional paths to achievement and success.

Voices for CHANGE solicits and encourages submissions from the public. We are looking for a variety of articles and poetry, drawings, photographs, cartoons, and letters to the editor. Please join us as readers, as contributors, or both, as we strive to pull together the diverse strands that make up M-POWER and the Transformation Center.