Webinar: California Memorial Project 20th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony
Webinar: California Memorial Project 20th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony
Come join us as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the California Memorial Project’s Remembrance Ceremonies! Disability Rights California’s Peer Self-Advocacy (PSA) program will honor our peers who lived and died and those who currently live at state institutions without the dignity and recognition they deserve.
Webinar:
California Memorial Project 20th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony
Join us as we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the California Memorial Project’s Remembrance Ceremonies! Disability Rights California’s Peer Self-Advocacy (PSA) program honored our peers who lived and died and those who currently live at state institutions without the dignity and recognition they deserve. This year we highlighted the importance of personal autonomy and individual freedom as we share the history and progress of the California Memorial Project and personal stories, poems and artwork from our peers. Let’s celebrate their lives, give them a voice and harvest hope for our future.
About the webinar:
From the 1880’s to the 1960’s, over 45,000 people with mental health and developmental disabilities have lived and died at California state institutions. They were identified with numbers, not names - often in mass or unmarked graves. Today, up to 6,000 of our peers currently live in California state hospitals against their will. Come join us as we celebrate our peers and give them a voice through their personal stories, poems, and artwork. Honoring them with a moment of silence, let’s acknowledge, recognize and give hope to our peers for a future that respects our personal autonomy and freedom of choice.
“Let no person ever again be removed from the community by reason of disability…”
Presenters
Andy Imparato – Disability Rights California’s Executive Director
Disability Rights California’s Peer Self-Advocacy Program Staff – Senobia Pichardo, Debi Davis, Rosy Tellez, Maria Garcia, Brent Chamberlin, Zofia Trexler, Claire Haider, Jode Keasler, Robyn Gantsweg
LaMar Mitchell – Former Napa State Hospital Resident & Current Community Member
Wesley Chesbro – Former California State Senator, Sponsor of California Memorial Project legislation - Senate Bill 1448
Joni Detrant – Director of Oregon State Hospital Memorial Project
Joana Arcangel – Peer Advocate and Disability Rights California’s Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Advisory Council Public Member
Hector Ramirez – National Disability Rights Network and Disability Rights Board Member
Special Tribute to Sally Zinman – Pioneer of the Peer Movement
Artwork, Stories & Poems from our Peers
Artwork, Stories & Poems from our Peers with the collaboration of PSA program staff.