ADD / ADHD Advocacy

YMCA Stigmatizes ADHD Families. Acceptable To Stigmatize Children With Mental Health Conditions For Money?

YMCA using children with ADHD as scapegoat bait for their marketing machine. Update: See follow up post to this with new information. The YMCA has done many good things for many people, they’re a large multimillion dollar organization with a big impact on many members of the community in a very wide variety of ways. […]

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BC Liberal Party Is Violating BC Election Act Sec 223 on Election Day by Online Advertising

Update3 The Vancouver Sun today Wed may 13th 09 has and covered the story on page A11.  Also The Victoria Times Colonist is also on their story in todays paper on page B7. The penalty for breaking the law could include up to a $10,000 fine and a year in jail. “The penalties are up

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ADHD – Busting The Myths, Breaking The Stigma, Showing Reality, One Post And Tweet At A Time

Here are the notes and the links for my presentation ADHD – Busting The Myths, Breaking The Stigma, Showing Reality, One Post And Tweet At A Time for Mental Health Camp Vancouver April 25, 2009. I won’t be able to cover all this material during the session so I have some extra info here. Tell

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12 Ways to Fight Mental Health Stigma With Social Media

This is for a presentation I’m doing at Mental Health Camp Vancouver (a conference combining social media with mental health) called ADHD – Busting the myths, breaking the stigma, showing reality, one post and tweet at a time. While ADHD is especially stigmatized as the orphan of mental health conditions, especially Adult ADHD, it’s not

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John Scrivin’s Response to His Vancouver Sun Adult ADHD Article

I received this from John Scrivin, its his response the the Vancouver Sun article that profiled him and Adult ADHD, I’m posting it in full. My apologies for misspelling your name before John. The Article is now in 2 place on the Vancouver Sun’s website, different headlines but same article, both with many comments. Some

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