PAS Center Mourns the Passing of Advisory Committee Member Judi Chamberlin

Judi Chamberlin who passed away peacefully on January 16th, will be greatly missed by the PAS Center.

For over 40 years, Judi Chamberlin had been an activist in the survivor/consumer/ex-patient movement. Amongst Judi's many achievements was helping found the Ruby Rogers Advocacy and Drop-In Center, which is run by and for people who have received psychiatric services. Most recently Judi was the co-founder and the Director of Education and Training at the National Empowerment Center, in Lawrence, MA as well as a board member of the National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy, the American Association of People with Disabilities, the Center for Public Representation, and Mental Disability Rights International. She was Director of Education at the National Empowerment Center, a federally funded technical assistance center which serves the consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement.

Judi was affiliated with the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, where she worked on projects concerning recovery, curriculum development, and on the use of personal assistance services for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Listen or read NPR's tribute to this civil rights hero at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122706192≻=emaf