Karim Chapman comes to VPS with more than ten years of experience at the grass roots and advocacy levels of building and developing programs among our most vulnerable populations. As a lead mentor for Community Connections for Youth (CCFY), Karim was a member of a team that identified young men and women living in and around New York, Harlem, that had direct or indirect issues with violence resulting in court involvement or circumstances with law enforcement.
Previously, he managed and supervised a team of credible messengers that dealt with at-risk youth around gun violence, mediation, life choices, and hospital and shooting responses.
Previously, he managed and supervised a team of credible messengers that dealt with at-risk youth around gun violence, mediation, life choices, and hospital and shooting responses.
Services
Vermont Psychiatric Survivors operates a formal Community Links program and offers mutual support to consumers/ex-patients/psychiatric survivors. Our Community Links program is based out of Rutland and Brattleboro.
Community Links is a voluntary program in Rutland County that pairs VPS staff with people who are transitioning out of psychiatric hospitals, jails or prison who want to end their dependency on the mental health system, become more fully integrated into the community of their choice, develop the skills and strategies needed for independence, and work toward creating lives of their own design.
Community Links is a voluntary program in Rutland County that pairs VPS staff with people who are transitioning out of psychiatric hospitals, jails or prison who want to end their dependency on the mental health system, become more fully integrated into the community of their choice, develop the skills and strategies needed for independence, and work toward creating lives of their own design.
Please join us for the annual meeting this year where we will introduce our new Executive Director, Christophre Woods and hear from featured speaker, Chris Hansen. To create our first member-planned (that means you) fundraiser. Not only help decide the who, what, where and when of how we raise money to use, but how we will use it.
The mission of Vermont Psychiatric Survivors is to provide advocacy and mutual support that seeks to end psychiatric coercion, oppression and discrimination. Involuntary outpatient commitment is on its face coercive, and the arguments for its use further oppression and discrimination against those marginalized by having received psychiatric labels.
Counterpoint is published three to four times a year by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors and available for free at sites throughout the state. Counterpoint was started in 1985, and prints 8,000 copies, in 24 or 28 page editions.
It prints artistic contributors (poetry, prose, drawings, paintings, photos, etc.) along with opinions (personal reflections, letters, columns) and news (reports on what's happening regarding mental health issues around the state).If you have news to share or a coming event for Counterpoint to cover, contact counterpoint@vermontpsychiatricsurvivors.org.
It prints artistic contributors (poetry, prose, drawings, paintings, photos, etc.) along with opinions (personal reflections, letters, columns) and news (reports on what's happening regarding mental health issues around the state).If you have news to share or a coming event for Counterpoint to cover, contact counterpoint@vermontpsychiatricsurvivors.org.
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