Statement of Purpose:

The West Coast Mental Health Network strives to provide a setting where people who have received mental health treatment can access information, referral services and education, receive mutual support, share experiences and promote mutual recovery.

Statement of Activities:

1. To maintain peer-run support groups for consumer/survivors of psychiatry

2. To provide information and referral services to consumer/survivors and educate the general public through:

- Publishing a quarterly newsletter reflecting the interests of and produced by consumer/survivors.
- Staging workshops on alternative healing methods and other events, addressing the needs and interests of consumer-survivors, throughout the year
- Maintaining a resource/borrowing library, containing titles related to mental health
- Helping consumer/survivors and others find mental health services/resources, and assisting consumer/survivors in finding employment, housing and peer support

3. To establish a safe house for mental health consumer/survivors when resources become available