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The UK Advocacy Network (UKAN)

Welcome to UKAN, the user controlled national federation of advocacy projects, patients' councils, user forums and self-help and support groups working in the field of mental health.

Members and Friends:  Keep in touch! Join our message forum! Ask others about your concerns, or broadcast news items!

 

News

Forthcoming Asylum Associates'  conference "Raising Awareness of Paranoia and Hearing Voices"

"Greater Goings On...(than you could ever guess...)"

STOP THE PSYCHIATRIC VIOLENCE Read declaration and watch protest by Pan-Hellenic Coalition for Psychiatric Reform

Terry Simpson, UKAN chair, argues that, in mental health at least, advocacy and involvement are weakened by separation from the social movement they grew out of. Read more

"A brilliant portrait of life on acute psychiatric wards ..." Special UKAN edition CD of slide shows by artist  Andrew Voyce

Survivor/user organisations call for an end to forced treatment and alternatives to psychiatry. Read Declaration of Dresden Against Coerced Psychiatric Treatment

Brian Bertie runs half-marathon for UKAN