Church Basement Press: March 2014

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Support your local innovator

Paul Komarek's project Mental Health Recovery Everywhere is a finalist in the Scattergood Foundation's 2014 Design Innovation Challenge. Please support this effort with your comments on the Scattergood foundation website and your Facebook Likes.

Mental Health Recovery Everywhere is an informal, nonclinical, social support network for people with mental illness or emotional distress. It serves the same function as AA for sober recovery, a social and nonclinical support experience with a book that supports deeper work, but it is strength-based, and not 12-step.

Show your support here.

Thank you for taking the time to review the challenge, and for supporting the work.

About Paul Komarek

Paul Komarek is an author and consultant with a comeback story. After bipolar disorder wiped out his legal career, Paul rebuilt his life around his strengths as a writer, teacher and policy expert. He works on tough social issues, including criminal justice reform, education of children with disabilities, violence prevention, addiction treatment, and health care for the poor. Paul’s book Defying Mental Illness, Finding Recovery with Community Resources and Family Support is the first book for general audiences to focus on mental health recovery, not how to have your disease. He is working on a new blog project called Redesigning Mental Illness that focuses on what ordinary people can do to fundamentally change how mental illness plays out in America. Election disclaimer.