Thank you all for your support of our campaign to lower, and hopefully eliminate, the use of mechanical restraint in Japan.  Today, 17 May, is the third year since Kelly’s passing. This year has seen some promising results, which we hope will accelerate the encouraging drop in restraint usage. 

1)     There are now 12,402 signatures on the petition.

2)     The number of people restrained in Japan on 30 June has dropped every year since our campaign started:  in 2017 there were 12,528 people in mechanical restraints, dropping to 11,362 in 2018 and 10,875 in 2019.

3)     The World Psychiatric Association has started two new committees to help make psychiatric care better throughout the world:  the Task Force on Minimising Coersion in Mental Health Care and the Service Users and Family Carers Advisory Group.  Both committees are actively working towards concrete efforts to improve psychiatric care and reduce coersion.  Kelly’s mother is a member on both committees.

Thanks again for your support,

Martha Savage (Kelly’s mother)