Creating Conditions for Self - and Client - Empowerment: My Experience with a Consumer Advisory Board

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  • Melissa A. Hensley Augsburg College

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The following narrative describes the author's experience as a leadership consultant to the Places for People Consumer Advisory Board (CAB). As a social worker with a mental illness, she was expected to be both a mentor and a teacher. Though fundamental change has not occurred in agency processes as a result of this board's activities, the CAB members have a stronger voice and a more visible presence as leaders in the agency, through programs they have developed themselves.

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Hensley, M. A. (2014). Creating Conditions for Self - and Client - Empowerment: My Experience with a Consumer Advisory Board. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 17(2), 35–40. Retrieved from https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping.org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/647

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