Advocacy is the third line of effort at Mindshift Care. You will see lots of position statements and vulnerable populations that I will call out on the Gluten-Free Psychiatry Podcast. If you are in position to help any of these people, please reach out to me to help spread your knowledge and hope to our shared fans.
The number 1 vulnerable population I advocate for are U.S. Army National Guard and Air National Guard members. Did you know that when they are called to State Active Duty that they can’t use the VA if they get PTSD or a physical injury? They have to use Worker’s Compensation and they don’t get PTSD treatment. When they are activated by the President, they are federalized and can go to the VA if they have any issues come up. If they are activated by their Governor, they get the broken Worker’s Comp. system. Ughh. I’ve done PTSD therapy as a Worker’s Compensation provider only once because it’s so rare they see a specialist in a timely manner. They are truly being forgotten and left to fend for themselves – literally. I mean, they get shot at and recover dead bodies out of the water just like when they’re federalized, for which I easily can write a positive medical opinion letter for a PTSD diagnosis. This practice is barbaric and must be stopped. All National Guard activations warrant access to VA service connections. I’m making this my soap box until it gets fixed. (Help me Joe Rogan, please! Let’s put some volume on this issue.)
The rest of the entire Ambassador Program here is to help cause a Mindshift in the way mental health support is being delivered. The content is taught for audiences on all sides of the issues. For topics related to healing, the exact words that help patients are used to teach the professionals as a model for functional psychiatry. For topics related to research, the content is used to mentor high school students all the way through graduate school into professional careers with solid critical thinking skills to address tomorrows medical disasters. Mastermind groups stand ready to support your research ideas no matter how big or small so that you can get published in a scientific journal. For topics related to advocacy, content has been prepared specifically for vulnerable populations and the professionals with which they come into contact. Why do we do it this way? To provide the end-to-end psychology training on par with the world-class prison reform carried out in Norway to create a global Mindshift in mental health healing. In Norway, they reversed the 80:20 recidivism rate in only one generation, keeping most people from re-offending and coming back to prison.
You can advocate too – share the PDF’s below!
Mindshift Ambassadors help me spread healing resources within their sphere of influence. Whether it’s a social media site, or placing links and flyers on your website, the Mindshift Ambassador Program relies on fans to advertise.
Ambassador Slides are PDF’s of the Power Point slides used to make the videos. There is a link to the handouts under the videos. They are complete with links to the entire, free-and-open program. When you email them to a loved one or post them on your organizational website, you are truly providing access to mental health resources for your tribe.
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