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Chris Hansen hails from New Zealand. Her chief qualification for this work is her own lived experience of being diagnosed, treated, locked up and coerced in the mental health system. Before her official and very public promotion to this certified status, Chris worked as a manager of a Community Mental Health Service. As a result she lost her job, home, custody of a child, all her friends and much...

On March 4, 2015 from 8-10 PM Eastern, join in for an exciting conversation with Dr. Ron Leifer. "Ron Leifer, MD, MA, is a psychiatrist with more than fifty years’ experience as a nonmedical, noncoercive psychotherapist. He received his psychiatric training at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, where his mentor was Professor Thomas Szasz, MD. . . . His interest then turned to a synthesis of W...

Late Night Sunday 8:oo Pm Call in With Hero George Egvert 267-561-0167 George Ebert has two sons and four grandchildren.  He and his wife  of 51 plus  years MaryAnn live in a home they have built in the woods in Upstate New York in the Town of Sterling near The Great Lake Ontario.  George has served as an activist and advocate with the Mental Patients Liberation Alliance since 1978. The Alliance w...

Joseph Rogers is executive director of the National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse and chief advocacy officer of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP).  To Call in Number 267 521 0167 His vision and leadership are responsible for building MHASP from a small regional advocacy agency into a large multi-faceted provider of advocacy and peer-to-peer servi...

Lets call in and talk  about being  a Dad and providing peer support  267 521 0167  Raymond Federici is a WRAP facilitator and Mobile Certified Peer Specialist since 2006. He has provided peer support and advocacy support for over 18 years in Southeastern PA. Currently works as a Mobile Certified Peer Specialist at Partners in Recovery in Philadelphia, a program of Elwyn Inc and the Delaware Count...

Craig Lewis, the author of 'Better Days - A Mental Health Recovery Workbook' is fighting a battle, much like we all are. Life can present impossible situations at times that can make our lives unmanageable. We can be beaten down to such a degree that we have trouble with our basic functioning. Craig knows this well as this has been a struggle that he has been battling through for months on end. So...

Call in or listen 267 521 0167 to discuss with Yvonne Smith and Frank and Blankenship  There has been a call to return to the Asylum and reintroduction of the Murphy Bill. Good idea or Bad? Frank Blankenship is a psychiatric treatment survivor and an anti-psychiatry human rights activist. With David Oaks, Al Galves and others, Frank successfully screened the Arlington Virginia American Psychiatric...

call in' s Welcome267- 521- 0167 Michael Skinner is a nationally known award-winning advocate susrvivor addressing the issues of trauma, abuse and mental health concerns through public speaking and his music – he has spoken at the National Press Club, was a keynote presenter for a conference held by the United Nations, The State Department and Georgetown University on the sexual exploitation and t...

Please join me for an exciting conversation with psychologist, counselor, educator, and activist John Breeding, PhD. December 17, 2014, 8-10 PM Eastern.  Breeding's new book, Practicing Thomas Szasz: Continuing the Work of the Philosopher of Liberty will be the subject of our conversation.  (This new book is available in ebook or hard copy from the publisher, and in kindle and paperback from Amazo...

Call in Sunday 8-10Pm Eastern  December 14 Jennifer Lav is a lawyer at University Legal Services, Protection & Advocacy Program, representing D.C. residents with psychiatric disabilities. Protection & Advocacy programs are organizations that provide free legal services to individuals with disabilities. After law school, Jennifer clerked for Judge Myron H. Thompson in the U.S. District Cour...

Join me on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2014, from 8-10 PM Eastern for a conversation with Katherine Hine and to hear how you can be part of helping free John Rohrer.  Call (267)521-0167 to be a part of the program. Katherine Hine is an inactive attorney in Ohio and mother of John Rohrer, the 34 year old writer/musician being kept locked up in state facilities since September, 2009, force drugge...

Call in to the following number 267 521 0167 or listen online   Janet  is a board member of the World Federation for Mental. She has also been recognized by the State of Texas receiving the Governors Trophy Award for Empowering Texans with Disabilities in 2005, and was honored nationally by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Voice Award in 2010. She shared this...

On December 3, 2014, 8-10 PM Eastern, join Talk with Tenney for a conversation with Craig Lewis. As an anti-authoritarian, Craig struggles with the often unyielding power that is at times used forcefully to subjugate people who are unwilling to maintain the status quo. In Craig’s experience working in the mental health recovery community as a Certified Peer Specialist, he has found himself often f...

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On November 23, 2014 from 8-10 PM Eastern Leah Harris joins host Yvonne Smith for Late Night with a Hero. Leah Harris, M.A.,Director of the Natonal Caoltion for Mental Health Recovery is a mother, advocate, writer, a trauma survivor, and a person with a psychiatric history. She has written and spoken widely about her own experiences of trauma, addiction, suicide, severe mental health challenges, a...

Late Night with A Hero “The Girl Who Cried ‘Wolf!’” is the heroic story of Nancy Jensen’s journey through mental illness to recovery. Raised in small-town Colorado Nancy learned early to depend on church support. A challenging family life combined with further challenges in school left her searching for God and family elsewhere.  Her search led her to Newton, Kansas, where she found a home first i...

Join me on November 5, 2014 from 8-10 PM Eastern for a riviteing conversation about plans to Stand-up to NAMI-NYS and The Murphy Bill (HR 3717) Friday November 14th Albany, New York. Information about The Human Rights Teach-in and The Active Response Plan with George Ebert and Anne Dox of the Mental Patients Liberation Alliance, Dan Fisher, Board member of National Coalition for MH Recovery, and o...

Join me October 29, 2014 for an exciting episode of Talk with Tenney: A Conversation with Frank Blankenship: Underground Railroad Landing Zones Frank explains to me, "I am working with a group of people who want to protect people facing involuntary outpatient commitment, a euphemism for forced psychiatric drugging, by helping them relocate outside of the state that would drug them." Frank is a psy...

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Seth Farber will be joining me and others for a conversation of the horror story at Trenton Psychiatric.  Please join and share https://www.facebook.com/HopeforGloria "Gloria was taken for no logical reason to Trenton State Hospital, which isn’t a hospital at all but a prison. What happened next was an unthinkable horror. "While asleep and in bed, Gloria was viciously attacked by an older woman wh...

Jen Padron's agenda: 1.) Peer Services | Supports in an Integrated BH and PC public health environment using my model 2.) US Peer Services | Supports Center, University of Southern California (USC) 3.) US Peer Leadership & Workforce Development Institute, University of Southern California (USC) 4.) Mobile Crisis Intervention MH/SA and the Role of the Certified Peer Specialist in Mobile Crisis...

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Aubrey Shomo just completed a ten day Hunger Strike at the Colorado State Capitol, resulting in the investigation of her wire recording of Dan Shearer from Boulder County Mental Health admitting to covering up abuse and coercing a no contest plea against her, while suggesting he was following the orders of his employer.  The State is convening an investigation committee in the Executive Branch. Au...

Kathie Cascio, a survivor of the psychiatric industry and human rights activist is passionate about the Movement.  Kathie has been involved with WE THE PEOPLE In Remembrance of Esmin Green who was murdered-by-neglect at Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Room, June 19, 2008; psychOUT: A Conference for Organizing Resistnace Against Psychiatry; Bastille Day demonstrations and vigils...

Tenney is joined by Amy Colesante who will discuss Trauma-Informed Approaches.  Details to follow.