Re: Seeking advice re mentally ill community member | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H Olson (fholsoncohousing.org) | |
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:00:21 -0700 (PDT) |
Frannyola [at] aol.com is the author of the message below. It was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org> -------------------- FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS -------------------- Hi, Thank you for sharing your story, Diana. I am very interested in the outcome and very sympathetic. I cannot even begin to touch the very difficult and painful and scary issue you are dealing with except that I would turn to professional help completely. I realized recently when we had a mentally ill woman attend a workshop I was at at a Unitarian Universalist Conference Center, how often people in need of balance or in crises are drawn to peaceful, supportive communities. So this issue will probably come up time and again in cohousing. As I said, I am completely uneducated in this matter but I will share the rights and responsibilities document that we follow in our neighborhood. It is good to fall back on to remind ourselves of what the minimum expectations are. -Franny New View Rights and Responsibilities Guidelines for living together. Rights Responsibilities 1. You have the right to feel physically and emotionally safe and secure anywhere in the community. 1. All members of the community, adults and children, are responsible for acting to insure the physical and emotional safety of each other. 2. You have the right to be treated respectfully by all members of the community. 2. You have the responsibility for considering the impact of the words and actions of all members of your household (including pets) on others in the community and for treating members of the community respectfully. 3. You have the right to express your opinions and feelings without fear of negative consequences. 3. You have the responsibility for expressing your ideas in a manner which is both sensitive and appropriate. 4. You have the right to define the ways in which you will meet your responsibilities for supporting the needs of the community. 4. You have the responsibility for contributing to the community in such a way that its needs can be met. 5. You have the right to determine how information of a confidential nature will be communicated. 5. You have the responsibility for insuring that an individual's desire for confidentiality will be respected. 6. You have the right to express religious, spiritual, political or other views of a personal nature in the community. 6. You have the responsibility for insuring that public expressions of one's views are presented in such a way so as to respect the rights of those who do not share in them or wish to participate in them. 7. You have the right to privacy of action within your own home and the right to the exclusive use of your own yard. 7. You have the responsibility to abide by all local, state and federal laws while in (or with respect to) public areas of the community. 8. You have the right to your own beliefs and values. 8. You have the responsibility for demonstrating tolerance towards those whose beliefs and values are different from yours. 9. You have the right to free use of all those things which the community owns in common. 9. You have the responsibility to share and care for those things which the community holds in common such that you do not deprive others of their use. 10. You have the right to have conflicts permanently resolved. 10. You have the responsibility to work in good faith toward conflict resolution. To _New View home page_ ( http://www.newview.org/default.htm ) To _Community Life page_ ( http://www.newview.org/community_life.htm )
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