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Our mission
Neuroinclusive Support Network (K'jipuktuk/Halifax) is led by community members who identify with or experience neurodivergence, madness, mental illness/difference, trauma and disability. Our mission is to provide peer-led, abolitionist, and disability justice informed alternatives to the traditional mental heath care system. Additionally, we intend to mobilize our member's connection to and leadership in these movements.
Our city is experiencing a lack of access to affordable mental health support. Our founders dreamed of having the ability for our community to access support that is rooted in lived experience, is against institutionalizing or policing people, and is explicitly anti-oppressive.
Our guiding beliefs
Nothing about us, without us! We believe that we know us best.
Self-determination for neurodivergent, disabled, and mad community members.
The right to care and support that does not incarcerate or institutionalize neurodivergent community members.
Cross-disability solidarity: we recognize that we are stronger when interconnected.
Accountability to and from our community.
Justice, which involves the imagination and dreaming up of better and more just systems.