Following an approach in which the person comes first, we operate in a spirit of support, not of authority. We encourage people to take charge of their lives, while treating them with a bias that is favorable and respectful of their wishes.

• Information on your rights and recourses
• Assistance and accompaniment throughout your course of action.
• Public awareness to futher the respect of rights.
• Training workshops on rights and recourses.
• Advocacy and lobbying to change practices that do not respect people's rights.

• to Unite people living or having lived with mental health problems.
• to Defend and Promote their individual and collective rights.
• to Assist individuals by providing them with the information and training required in exercising their rights.
• to Ensure a vigilant eye against abuses and attacks on the rights of people living with mental health problems.
• to Accompagny and support individuals who wish to file a complaint or exercise a right
• to Empower people living with mental health problems, Advocate on their behalf, and Lobby both institutions and government towards this same goal.
• to Increase public awarness of the realities lived by people with mental health problems.

• You have, without success, attempted to obtain a service or to exercise a recourse?
• You feel that you are a victim of an injustice?
• You feel that your requests are not taken into account or that your are not believed?
• Alone you fear that you will suffer reprisals?
• You are a witness of a situation where someone's rights are not being respected?
• You are asking yourself what to do?

• Health and social services
• Welfare
• Protective Supervision, Curatorship
• Workers' Compensation (CSST)
• Legal System
• Involontary Hospitalization
• All forms of exploitation or abuse

  We can and are willing to help!

Monday through Friday jfrom 9 to 12pm & 1 to 5pm	3958 Dandurand 3e étage, jMontreal, Quebec jH1X 1P7
Tel.; (514) 525-5060 jFax; (514) 525-5580	EMAIL lecollectif@actionautonomie.qc.ca