Il cappellaio matto-Associazione di Promozione Sociale, Italy
The mad hatter
A regional organisation with 15 members.
Membership: users and survivors of psychiatry and activists willing to fight against psychiatric abuses and promote psychiatric users’ and survivors’ social inclusion and empowerment.
Purpose: to defend and improve psychiatric users’/survivors’ human rights and empower their self-help capacity. The main goal is to raise awareness about the users’ and survivors’ main concern: self determination and freedom from bodily harm.
Main activities: mad-pride organisation, set-up of a national user/survivor network, help in individual cases of abuse.
Address: VIA DEI RONCHETTI, 9 – 23019 TRAONA – SONDRIO – ITALY
Phone: +39/3403438335
E-mail: erveda.sansi@gmail.com
Website: www.ilcappellaiomatto.org
Diritti alla Follia
National organization with 70 members (including the Board), the majority of them are (ex-)users and survivors of psychiatry. The organization was established on 25 July 2018.
Objectives and aims
The Association aims to:
- promote the reform of the procedure currently provided for by law 1978/833 for “compulsory medical treatment”, introducing forms of protection and guarantee for the benefit of those subjected to it;
- to promote the full rights of those undergoing “compulsory medical treatment”;
- promote and affirm the need for reform the security measures for non-attributable subjects;
- undertake to safeguard the spaces of self-determination and choice of the person in the “support administration” procedures
- promote and affirm the need for a change in the regulatory framework of the institutions of interdiction and incapacitation
To achieve the statutory objectives the Association:
- promotes and carries out conferences, publications, events, information campaigns , study and research initiatives aimed at achieving individual objectives; in particular, through campaigns for the approval or modification of national and transnational legislation on law, justice and freedom;
- elaborates and proposes norms for the protection of citizens’ rights and, to this end, establishes relations with public and private institutions;
- undertakes any other useful initiative at an international, national, regional and territorial level for the achievement of the statutory purposes;
The Association may stipulate collaboration and/or membership agreements with other organizations or bodies, public or private, Italian or foreign, for the achievement of the objectives indicated by the statute and by the assembly motion.
Activities
An example of the Campaign on the so called “support administration”
The organization provides information on issues related to coercion in the psychiatric field, in particular on the rights of people subjected to coercion.
Sources of funding
The resources of the Association consist of:
- the membership fees;
- any donations or bequests;
- any associative collections;
- any resource or financing not prohibited by law
Address: Registered office Via Bargoni 32 00153 Rome
Tel: 3462378960
E-mail: dirittiallafollia@gmail.com
Website: www.dirittiallafollia.it
Name and position of the person representing the organisation: Michele Capano, legal representative, treasurer