Mary O'Hagan
Mary O'Hagan, Consultant, Writer, Speaker
Mary O'Hagan has a mental health service user background. She initiated the mental health service user movement in New Zealand in the late 1980s, and was the first chairperson of the World Federation of Psychiatric Users between 1991 and 1995.
Mary has experience working in consumer organisations, in mental health policy and funding agencies, and as a consultant. She has represented service users in national and international forums. Mary has also been a keynote speaker at several international conferences and has contributed to a number of international mental health books and to national government policy documents.
Mary's overriding commitment in all her work is to ensure service users are treated with respect and equality in mental health services, retain their citizen rights and responsibilities, and are able to develop their personal resourcefulness. To this end Mary has worked to develop self-help and advocacy initiatives, consumer participation in services, consumer-run evaluation, recovery approaches and anti-discrimination projects.
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