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Leader and recovery expert with lived experience
Mary O'Hagan used mental health services in New Zealand for eight years as a young woman.
Ever since, she has worked to make a difference to the way society and services respond to people with lived experience of major mental distress.
Mary was:
• an initiator of the service user movement in New Zealand in the late 1980s
• the first chair of the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (1991-95)
• an advisor to the United Nations and World Health Organization (1997- 2004) on disability issues as they relate to people with major mental distress
• a mental health commissioner for New Zealand (2000-2007) – the highest government position held by an openly identified service user in any country.
Mary is:
• an international speaker, consultant and writer
• an international thought leader on service user perspectives and recovery
• used for her unique expertise in recovery-based services and systems, anti-discrimination and social inclusion
• sought by clients in the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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