DAUGHTERS AND SONS INITIATIVE

The Daughters and Sons Initiative is a collaboration led by people with lived experience of having a parent (or parents) with mental health struggles, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective illness, bipolar disorder, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. We work in partnership with researchers, mental health and child welfare professionals, advocates, and parents with mental health struggles. As a national group we are dedicated to improving awareness and addressing the needs of daughters and sons of all ages who have a parent with psychiatric illness. Our central message focuses on breaking stigma against parents with mental illness and underlying assumptions that people have about being raised by a parent with mental illness... This website reflects the work of a group of adults with lived experience of having a parent with mental illness. We have collaborated with groups in other countries such as Children of Parents with Mental Illness (COPMI). Our particular vision has..