Discrimination Issues.  CIS 41 Reg. ID 44603 with Mental Health Client Focus constitutes an innovative arrangement aimed especially for teaching mental health clients in a ‘client culture’ environment. See the course flyer for some detail. The Discrimination Dilemma talk by former County Patients Rights Advocate Alison Brunner elaborates on that.

Civility.  While you do not need to be a current or former mental health client to take this section, you are expected to be respectful in dealing with other students who are mental health clients. Everybody is expected to be respectful to everybody. That pertains in general, but it is especially targeted at the discriminatory social conditions that affect mental health clients. I intend to promote actively a civil environment in the classroom.

Beauty Path.  The Vision behind this Section is that we want to help construct the way for mental health clients to

• have real lives, &
• become technically skilled members of the Silicon Valley workforce.

We have to recognize that the current ‘client culture’ is based on an economy of entitlements; it does not yet fully engage the tokenist social relations that generally obtain. We will endeavor to be sensitive to how this sort of situation promotes complexities in the class environment

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR RESPECT FOR THESE CONCERNS