Peer community

Urakawa Bethel House

浦河べてるの家

Urakawa, Hokkaido, Japan

Social welfare corporation in Hokkaido founded in 1984 by former psychiatric patients and a social worker, practicing "Tojisha-Kenkyu" (self-directed peer research) into members' own psychiatric experiences.

Focus

Mad Pride and psychiatric survivors, Hearing voices, Psychosis and schizophrenia, Intellectual disability

Leadership

Neurodivergent-led

Where

In person and online

Languages

Japanese

Since

1984

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