Mental Health Advocacy with Jonathan Dosick

This show will feature a special guest speaking about his work in the disabilities and mental health fields. Jonathan Dosick is an activist who is focused on human rights problems in mental health settings. In 2003, he founded a legislative/grassroots initiative to add access to fresh air and the outdoors as a ‘Fundamental Right,’ based on Massachusetts’ 1998 “Five Fundamental Rights” law. The effort was recently merged with another one: creating better means of enforcing these rights, which are violated constantly. The legislative bill and growing grassroots movement have been sponsored by 39 Massachusetts lawmakers and dozens of human rights advocacy groups locally and nationally, despite efforts by powerful hospital lobbyists to stop it. Jonathan attended Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire, and lives in Southborough, Massachusetts. Call In Number 718-766-4749