#hospital diversion

[dromaeocore]

So, Peer Respites are a not-very-well-known alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. They are 100% voluntary and staffed by peers, AKA individuals with lived experience of mental illness/emotional distress/what-have-you. Generally, they are a homelike environment where you can come and go as you please, and there is lots of voluntary programming like groups, art, yoga, etc. You can bring your own food or cook meals together with staff and other residents. Stays are usually anywhere from five days to two weeks, depending on the respite house and also your own wants and needs. There are no restraints, strip searches, or seclusion.

They're also on the rise!! I know this because I've spent all day today compiling data on peer respites in the US so I could create this fun graph for ya'll.

In the past ten years, at least 38 new peer respites have opened in the US. The data for 2023 is incomplete, but at least one has already opened, and another is scheduled for a soft opening later this year.

Some things about the data:

I did not include peer respites which were permanently closed (2) or could not find an opening date for (1)

I used the National Empowerment Center's Directory of Peer Respites, along with some internet sleuthing to find a few more (and to find the opening dates for each one). Because of this, I may have missed a few.

There were a handful of peer respites for which I could not pin down a for-certain, exact date for. I did include these in the dataset as I was able to find rough estimates.

I have also not done a deep dive for all peer respites that were unsuccessful, which may skew the data a little bit.

I included Soteria Vermont as well, as it technically fits the definition despite being specifically for people with psychosis

If you would like to help get a peer respite off the ground, I would recommend donating to Peer Support Space Inc.'s Orlando FL Peer Respite. Their soft launch is November 2023, and they are scheduled to open to the public in January 2024. This is really important, because Florida's only peer respite has recently permanently closed.

If you're interested in starting your own peer respite, the National Empowerment Center has a list of resources here.

If you are interested in seeking help from a peer respite, there is a directory of most of them here. You can also look at the Google Doc I created to compile my data, which has a few more/is slightly more updated - though it's not nearly as nicely put together as the other one!

If anyone would like to add any information, non-US peer respites, etc, feel free to!

#peer respites #peer respite #psych ward #psych hospital #psychiatric hospitalization #psych critical #psychiatry critical #anti psychiatry #antipsych #antipsychiatry #mental illness #neurodivergency #disability #hospital diversion #psychiatry #disability pride month #psychiatric survivors #putting in all the tags I can think of so ppl see this lol

[bonobochick]

Trina & Spencer being cute and tactile in their love in the MetroCourt pool. 🥰

General Hospital ep airing June 1, 2023

#general hospital #sprina #rosadine #romance #trina robinson #spencer cassadine #spencer x trina #trina x spencer #gh sprina #cute #pool #pool time #soap opera #bw #diversity #love story #otp #tabyana ali #nicholas alexander chavez

[burned-lariat]

GH...

This show, this motherfucking show, won Outstanding Drama again. AGAIN.

I-

#general hospital #HOW TF- #are they getting it because storylines are 'diverse' in the sense that they don't repeat one right after the other? #like mob wars and spy games and affairs and espionage - there's a lot of shit! I get it! #But I don't UNDERSTAND how this keeps happening???

[morzowo]

🌈 Happy Pride Month 🌈  to these two nurses from Triage ep 9 establishing shot

#triage #triage the series #my gifs ☆ #diversity wins every staff member at Phuping hospital is part of lgbtq+ community #mjtag #usersquee #thought you might appreciate it too úwù

[guideaus]

i could never be a creator of a show or smth bc if a fan got weird abt anything, i'd so be like: all my characters hate you. everyone that helped make this hates you. i hate you. die

#personal #like when ppl complain abt diversity in fiction or in this case the removal of a man that cheated and sent a woman to the hospital #who was it that sent like anon hate on here that said steven universe hates them lmao. i'd be like that #or that vid of the girl claiming she asked everyone at a party and they all said they hate this specific girl lol #w mononoke i think they changed it bc the movie will apparently be centered around women #so that makes sense lmao. its nice they didnt just cover their eyes or whatever #and it would feel weird if those two things stayed the same #the medicine seller did let people die in the show. he wouldnt like that guy 👍

[hieronymus-botch]

“I’m a homestuck fan and want something new that feels similar and isn’t the fucking epilogues/hs2!”

“We need more fat/older woman protagonists!”

“I want media with good queer rep that isn’t saccharine twee pastel drivel!”

“Why aren’t there any stories where the hero is actually an ordinary person thrust into an adventure, rather than copping out and making them secretly the Chosen One?”

“Why does no one design monstergirls who’re actually monstrous instead of just a human with fangs and a tail or whatever?”

READ AWFUL HOSPITAL YOU SAVAGES, it’s a horror/comedy/adventure MASTERPIECE about a cute mom trying to rescue her baby and save the world from eldritch abominations that has all of those things as well as delightfully creepy visuals, some amazingly well-written characters (you will swoon at the adorable flirting of a sapient blob of maggots), a great sense of humor, and a surprising amount of heart for a comic with this sort of 2000s Hot Topic Jhonen Vasquez/Maxwell Atoms aesthetic, and unlike Homestuck, actual reader interactivity all the way through! It’s been running for nearly 8 years now and been painfully underrated all that time, please read it, you won’t regret it I promise.

#awful hospital #homestuck #diversity #queer rep #tropes

[coochiequeens]

A birth center lost diversity points for using the term Mother.

https://archive.is/2023.11.19-103726/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/18/maternity-hospital-downgraded-use-term-mother-diversity/

The Rosie Birth Centre at Addenbrooke's Hospital CREDIT: CAMimage/Alamy Stock Photo

A maternity hospital received a low grade on a diversity assessment because staff only use the term “mother” when discussing maternity leave, The Telegraph can disclose.

The Cambridge University Hospital Trust, which manages a maternity hospital called the Rosie, lost points because staff use the term “mother” when referring to the policies it had in place regarding paid leave, instead of broadening it to include gender-neutral alternatives.

The report was carried out by the NHS’ “Rainbow Badge” scheme, which assesses hospitals based on how they treat LGBT patients.

The trust also lost points for not providing staff with guidance on what trans and non-binary employees should wear, pointing out how the trust’s “trans inclusion policy” did not provide “guidance on the dress code for trans employees, including non-binary employees.”

The report also flagged a “cause for concern” about a deluge of comments from staff criticising the trust’s inclusivity efforts for “virtue signaling” instead of providing care, including one comment which said: “We cannot waste taxpayers’ money on tokenism.”

The report said: “0 points were awarded for the Maternity Leave Policy. The policy does not have an inclusion statement to make clear that it applies to all irrespective of gender/gender of partner etc. The policy also refers to “mother” without expanding to include gender-neutral/inclusive terms and only uses he/she pronouns throughout.”

‘I just want to live my life’

One member of staff who said he was gay is cited calling the Rainbow Badge “insulting.”

They wrote: “I feel it is excessive - I just want to live my life; I don’t want to be asked; I don’t want my identity reduced to a label. I am tired of it - I just want to live my life like everyone else.”

Another said: “Rainbow badges are just performative; I would prefer all staff be properly trained and supportive to all needs, not singling out one or two.”

Another wrote: “I am gravely concerned about the influence on the NHS of organisations like Mermaids and Stonewall. I am concerned about the protection of single-sex spaces like hospital wards. 

“I am concerned that men are being allowed to self-ID into women’s protected single-sex spaces, and the serious safeguarding risk this poses. I am concerned that this is all being ignored in favor of mindless virtue signaling like this latest ‘NHS Rainbow’ scheme.”

The report recommended that hospital staff “signal” to patients that they are LGBT inclusive by introducing themselves to patients with their pronouns and putting sanitary products in all toilets.

The report, however, did praise aspects of the trust’s approach to inclusion that were already in place.

It endorsed the fact that the group tasked with hiring senior staff has to include a “Diversity Inclusion Panellist” with “lived experience of a protected characteristic” whose role is to ensure that the staff carry out hiring processes “fairly.”

It also commended how the hospitals set “inclusion-based objectives” to senior managers as part of their annual appraisal.

The “Rainbow Badge” initiative began as a physical badge launched by Evelina London’s Children’s Hospital in February 2019 that staff could wear to show they are aware of the issues LGBT people face in the NHS.

Matt Hancock supported the scheme as health secretary.

Staff members celebrating the NHS Rainbow Badge scheme - developed by Evelina London Children's Hospital - during the 2019 Pride in London Parade in central London CREDIT: PA/Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundat

In 2021, the “Rainbow Badge” went from a physical symbol to a nationwide scheme that assesses hospitals based on how they treated LGBT staff by placing them on a scale between gold, silver, and bronze.

The report on the Cambridge University Hospital trust received the lowest possible grade, referred to as “initial stage,” meaning it failed to even qualify for the “bronze” award.

The scheme is commissioned by NHS England but run by trans rights groups, including Stonewall and the LGBT Foundation, who carry out the grading.

In August, it was revealed that 77 trusts have signed up for the scheme.

The Cambridge University Hospital Trust declined to comment.

#Mother #Cambridge University Hospital Trust #The Rosie Birth Centre #NHS’ “Rainbow Badge” #Diversity Inclusion Panellist

[offcampusstillnerdy]

If you've been raised xtian and if you're queer and if you're trying to work out how to reconcile all that, you should know that there's loads of queer xtians. Here's a little anthem for that Venn diagram.

#queer spirituality #queer #queer christians #christianity #trans #radical inclusivity #radical hospitality #universal diversity #flamy grant #Youtube

[pepiempanadas]

Man, theres already 3 lesbian couples and a few in cannon ships, mostly gay

#awful hospital #diversity win #this wont be libeblogging #im too deep already #im a fern x magdolene truther

[muirneach]

they really shouldn’tve given me a gifted program test when an autism diagnosis test would’ve done the trick

#i didnt learn a THING in my gifted classes those three years were nothingggg #we all know the program is a scam and also i hate ‘former gifted kids’ sooo much #things i learned while at that school: how to play dnd and how to play steel pan #and nothing else 👍 #but the good thing about that school was it was incredibly diverse #and im of the opinion that kids should see infinite diversity and every background possible #babes we were across from a hospital. for starters. we were in a poor asian majority neighbourhood #in my first year when i was in grade four i befriend a group of gay grade eights #which was yknow really good for a lil guy like me #etc etc. it was a good school but it was not a worthwhile program #anyways. shoutout to autism

[seeminglyseph]

Look, if anyone wants to pull a snit about realism and the historical significance of Lord of the Rings having to technically be a mythology for the English Area before we all warred our history out of each other, I’m bringing up that it would put us in a world where

“Po-ta-toes! Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, put ‘em in a stew!”

Cannot exist. I’m tired of making thoughtful answers to stuff questions. I require potatoes.

#unfortunately Amazon did not provide a good example of a product #and now a bunch of really unfortunate people think that they are correct #when in actuality it was just a bad thing that manipulated toxic politics for marketing instead of making a good thing #and some very unfortunate real people had to carry the brunt of it #someone please get costume makeup and prop departments back for the age of diverse casting #the era of ‘we’ll fix it in post’ and post being ‘overworked underpaid cgi team that might be half dead’ is doing no one any favours #I can feel the burnout on your post production team from here #they need some sunlight and healthy food #please take them to the hospital for a saline drip I think they might be severely dehydrated

[bklynmusicnerd]

Robert had one job and he failed miserably. This is why Anna and Holly left him behind.

#general hospital #these writers are doing robert scorpio dirty 😬 #he can't do a basic diversion anymore? egads

[bonobochick]

Trina & Spencer working on a way to alert the authorities as to where they are without letting Victor know Trina stowed away & is secretly onboard. ⛴ 🌊

General Hospital ep airing April 12, 2023 

#general hospital #sprina #spencer cassadine #trina robinson #trina x spencer #spencer x trina #romance #soap opera #cute #flirty #secret plan #stowaway #girlfriend to the rescue #adventure #tabyana ali #nicholas alexander chavez #diversity #gh sprina #rosadine

[goteamphilippines]

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#goteam #Onboarding #Orientation #Introduction #Integration #First impressions #Company culture #Mentorship #Training #Support #Communication #Team building #Feedback #Employee engagement #Socialization #Inclusivity #Diversity #Belonging #Hospitality #Warmth #Friendliness

[priestfrommidnightmass]

HELP IM REMINISCING ON THE FOSTERS STORYLINES RN WHY WAS THIS MY FAVORITE SHOW WHEM I WAS 12😭😭😭😭😭

#nick thoughts #WHY DID CONNOR RANDOMLY GET SHOT??? AND THEN #THATS WHEN JUDE CAME OUT TO HIS GAY MOM??? IN THE HOSPITAL??? #when jesus left the show and came back as noah centineo 😭😭😭 and stef was like Wow. You’re taller #why was there so much stepcest and transphobia #i can’t remember if there was homophobia but i’m. pretty positive #when brandon got beat up by his fake id dealer and couldn’t go to julliard or something… #everything with callie was wild wasn’t she a hostage at one point 😭😭😭 #she ran away like twelve times and never learned #wasn’t there a school shooting episode and then it turned out he was. hiding n the house. and trying to kill jesus’s ex for some reason?? #i can’t remember that storyline exactly but . diversity win this lesbian mom is a cop! #my god i keep remembering shit. that show was absolutely wild #pure camp. So problematic. affected my development severely. what the fuck was that #i was so obsessed this show like. messed me up #watching shameless the fosters and american horror story at twelve made me who i was today and that’s not a good thing #it’s not where you come from it’s where you belong 😭😞🙏😭😞😭 #the fosters #alsonjust remembered when jesus got like. a nail to the head. #also i remember now didn’t callie like. go with a pimp???? and then they nearly killed her or something??? #i don’t wanna know. i’m never rewatching

[indizombie]

A recent study which looked at 20 years' worth of GP and hospital health records, found black people had a 22% higher incidence of dementia being recorded than white people. They also found black and South Asian people were diagnosed at a younger average age than white people in the UK. Katherine Gray, research communications manager at Alzheimer's Society, said 25,000 people living with dementia were from ethnically diverse communities, with the number predicted to double by 2026. "However, current research into dementia risk factors is mostly in people from white European ancestry," she said, adding that there was a need to better understand and support diverse populations.

‘Black people more likely to develop dementia, large study finds’, BBC

#BBC #hospital health records #black people #dementia #South Asian people #UK #white people #Katherine Gray #Alzheimer's Society #ethnically diverse communities #dementia risk factors