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- Advocacy Unlimited, Inc. - Information and resources for persons with mental health disabilities. Also an educational program for mental health advocacy skills.
www.mindlink.org
- Coalition for Persons Disabled by Mental Illness - North Carolina coalition of mental health professionals, consumers, families and advocates organized to pursue lobbying and mental health reform initiatives.
www.cpdmi.org
- Consumer Consultancy - Mental health activism, community development, and resources organization based in the U.K.
www.brighton.is-crazy.com
- Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center - Resource center for consumers/survivors/ex-patients and consumer-run organizations across the United States, promoting self-help, recovery and empowerment.
www.contac.org
- dotCOMsense - The American Psychological Association (APA) provides guidelines on how to protect individual privacy and assess the credibility of mental health information found on the Internet.
helping.apa.org/dotcomsense
- East Suffolk Advocacy Networks - ESAN is an independent, user managed organisation committed to the empowerment of mental health service users.
www.esan.org.uk
- Empowerment for Healthy Minds - Consumer-run mental health advocacy organization based in Southwestern Virginia. Empowerment and activism are emphasized.
www.efhm.com
- GIDreform.org - Challenging Psychiatric Gender Stereotypes - GIDreform.org is a resource for all who advocate reform of the psychiatric classification of gender diversity as mental disorder.
gidreform.org
- Handling Your Mental Illness at Work and School - Information on ADA (the Americans with Disabilities Act), the affect of mental illness on work or schooling, coping, filing a complaint, question of the month.
www.bu.edu/sarpsych/jobschool
- Medscout Mental Health - Links and material regarding mental health issues, mental health associations and organizations, public health and special topics (such as suicide and substance abuse).
www.medscout.com/mental_health/index.htm
- Mental Health Advocate - Mental health resources, newsletter articles, links, personal accounts, stories, and news. We believe recovery is possible.
www.namiscc.org/MentalHealth.htm
- Mental Health Consumer Net Connections - By and for consumer/survivors living in British Columbia, Canada, the site is intended as an informational and referral resource for consumers within the province and beyond.
www.mentalhealthconsumer.net/index-links.html
- Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - The first Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, asserting that mental illness is a critical public health problem that must be addressed by the nation.
www.mentalhealth.org/features/surgeongeneralreport/home.asp
- Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System - One sixth of inmates have a mental illness, but do not receive treatment because facilities are over-crowded and under-staffed.
www.geocities.com/stargazers_here/mental_illness.html
- National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse - The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse helps connect individuals to self-help and advocacy resources, and offers expertise to self-help groups and other peer-run services for mental health consumers.
www.mhselfhelp.org
- Presidents New Freedom Commission on Mental Health - President Bush identifies obstacles to quality mental health care. Includes details of the Commission's work and schedule, along with a section for receiving public comment.
www.mentalhealthcommission.gov
- Public Policy Advocacy - (American Psychiatric Association) - Public Policy Advocacy contains a search feature and news briefs on mental health policy.
www.psych.org/pub_pol_adv/ghindex.cfm
- SuicideMalpractice - Information about the history of and defenses to suicide malpractice litigation against mental health care providers.
www.suicidemalpractice.net
- Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health - Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health: A National Action Agenda. This report was prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Department of Justice. It is an outgrowth of the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health which was released in December, 1999.
www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/cmh/childreport.htm
- The Coalition of Voluntary Mental Health Agencies - New York Citys advocacy organization for community mental health, representing a network of over 100 non-profit, community-based mental health agencies.
www.cvmha.org
- The Mental Health Activist - This Washington State advocacy site gives daily updated mental health law information, alerts, reports, and advice for health care and patient advocates and volunteers.
www.mhactivist.com
- The National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc. - Advocating for mental health patients and professionals via educating the general public about good mental health care and by standing up to fight managed care's abusive practices.
www.thenationalcoalition.org
- Transcultural Mental Health Centre - Information and resources for people of non-English speaking backgrounds suffering or caring for someone with a mental illness. Translated information also available. Involved in research and education.
www.tmhc.nsw.gov.au
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