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Links to Related Sites
 Connecticut Links
- Capitol Region Mental Health Center
Welcome to Capitol Region Mental Health Center's website. Our mission is to partner with persons in recovery to ensure access to quality behavioral healthcare services. Capitol Region Mental Health Center (CRMHC) is a community based mental health center which provides an array of innovative clinical and community support services to individuals with a psychiatric disability, in many cases with co-occurring problems of substance abuse.
- Centers for Independent Living
This is a link to a directory of Centers for Independent Living in Connecticut. Connecticut's Centers for Independent Living are single points of access to services for people with disabilities. Centers for independent living (CILs) are private, nonprofit corporations that provide services to maximize the independence of individuals with disabilities and the accessibility of the communities they live in.
- Central Naugatuck Valley Help, Inc.
Central Naugatuck Valley Help, Inc. is a private, non-profit agency that provides a broad range of community mental health services for adults with serious and persistent mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders. We provide community connections programs including residential mental health and addiction treatment. Since 1970, Central Naugatuck Valley Help, Inc. has been offering individuals in need of recovery a residential setting where they can begin to change.
- Connecticut Association of Centers for Independent Living (CACIL)
Information, listings, links, and contact info for Connecticut Independent Living centers.
- Connecticut Clearinghouse
Connecticut Clearinghouse is a statewide resource for information about mental health, substance use disorders, health promotion, recovery, and wellness. A program of Wheeler Clinic, Inc., it is the state's premier library and resource center for information on mental health, substance use disorders, prevention and health promotion, treatment and recovery, wellness, and other related topics. Materials from its specialized library and resource center are available to Connecticut families, teachers, students, professionals, communities and children. Resources and services are available to anyone who lives or works in the state.
- Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence (CCADV)
The Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence is a membership organization whose purpose is to work together to end domestic violence by changing the social conditions, beliefs and social actions that perpetuate abuse against women and children. The Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence is dedicated to serving you. Call our toll-free 24-hour crisis line 1-888-774-2900. Safe shelters across the state will open their doors for you and your children. Many other services are available. There is no excuse for domestic violence.
- Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR)
CCAR has emerged as a well-respected, highly visible and vibrant grassroots organization that includes persons in recovery and their family members, friends, and allies. Simply, we seek to "put a face on recovery." CCAR is an integral part of a new recovery movement that is coming to life all across America.
- Connecticut Council on Developmental Disabilities (CTCDD)
The Council on Developmental Disabilities is a Governor-appointed body of people with disabilities, family members and professionals who work together to promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities in community life.
- Connecticut Disability Advocacy Collaborative (CDAC)
The purpose of the Connecticut Disability Advocacy Collaborative is to draw from the collective strength and energy of individuals with disabilities and families, as well as the dozens of advocacy organizations that exist in the state, in order to have a meaningful impact on the way services and supports are provided people with disabilities in Connecticut.
- Connecticut General Assembly
This is a link to the Connecticut General Assembly website.
- Connecticut's Network of Care for Behavioral Health
The Network of Care site is a resource for individuals, families and agencies concerned with mental health. It provides information about mental health services, laws, and related news, as well as communication tools and other features. Regardless of where you begin your search for assistance with mental health issues, the Network of Care helps you find what you need
- Connecticut Section 8 Waiting List (Housing Choice Voucher Program)
The State of Connecticut has established this website where anyone can easily find out which Section 8 waiting lists in Connecticut are currently open. Housing authorities are required to post notice of the opening of any Section 8 waiting list at least two weeks before the housing authority begins accepting applications.
On this website, you can click on "List of open waiting lists," and see which housing authorities, if any, presently are accepting Section 8 applications. If a list is open, it may be possible, depending on the housing authority, to link to a housing authority web site from which an application form can be downloaded. You can also register to receive notice whenever a list opening is posted. To do this, click on "Register to receive email notices of opening of waiting lists." You can request notices of all lists posted or of those from particular housing authorities only.
It is suggested that you register for "All Authorities" so that you receive all notices. Particularly in light of current cutbacks in Section 8 funding, there are not likely to be that many list openings.
- Connecticut Women's Consortium
The mission of The Connecticut Women's Consortium is to improve behavioral health care for women and their children.
- Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS)
The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) promotes and administers comprehensive, recovery-oriented services in the areas of mental health treatment and substance abuse prevention and treatment throughout Connecticut.
- Department of Social Services (DSS)
The Connecticut Department of Social Services provides a broad range of services to the elderly, persons with disabilities, families, and individuals who need assistance in maintaining or achieving their full potential for self-direction, self-reliance and independent living.
- Disabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut (DNEC)
The mission of the Disabilities Network is to empower persons with disabilities in Eastern Connecticut to live as independently as they choose, and to improve the quality of their lives, as well as to effect positive change that promotes the inclusion of all persons with disabilities within society.
- Disability Resource Center of Fairfield County (DRCFC)
Established in 1981, The Disability Resource Center of Fairfield County DRCFC provides a comprehensive array of services both to the individuals and the communities of Fairfield County, Connecticut. These services embody the Independent Living philosophy...a philosophy that challenges the social attitudes and the physical barriers that stigmatize and exclude persons with disabilities from the community.
- FAVOR - Family Advocacy Organization for Children's Mental Health
FAVOR's mission is to help improve mental health services for children with serious emotional disorders throughout Connecticut by increasing the availability, accessibility, cultural competence and quality of mental health services for children through Family Advocacy. FAVOR's primary purpose is to foster the strengthening and expansion of the children's mental health family movement in Connecticut.
- Focus On Recovery-United (FOR-U)
FOR-U is a peer-support program staffed entirely by paid and volunteer consumers who have been trained by Mary Ellen Copeland as facilitators of her Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). FOR-U is dedicated to promoting wellness by encouraging positive change in the lives of people who are experiencing (or have experienced) psychiatric symptoms and/or symptoms of addiction. FOR-U is also dedicated to their family members, providers and the community. We are committed to assisting individuals in taking responsibility for their own recovery by providing hope, education and ongoing support.
- The Foundation for Mental Health
The Foundation for Mental Health was founded in 1999 as a non-profit corporation dedicated to easing the isolation and eliminating the stigma often felt by people who suffer with psychiatric disabilities, enabling them to lead lives of dignity. The Foundation advocates on mental health issues and works to improve public access to services. Our mission is to raise money for programs that help people with mental illness achieve healthy, independent lives within their communities.
- General Statutes of Connecticut
This is a link to the General Statutes of Connecticut. The first page provides information on the organization of the statutes and instructions on how to search or browse this information.
- Healthnet - UCONN Health Center Library
University of Connecticut Health Center Library's consumer health information program for Connecticut citizens and public libraries. This site has many resources for Connecticut residents, including specific help such as "Do you have a medical or health related question?" which offers info on how to get the assistance you need to find answers to your medical questions. Also, "Mental Health Resources - A Guide for Patients and Families."
- Independent Living Centers in CT
A listing of Independent Living Centers (ILC's) in Connecticut. ILC's are private, non-profit, consumer-controlled, community-based organizations providing services and advocacy by and for persons with all types of disabilities. Their goal is to assist individuals with disabilities to achieve their maximum potential within their families and communities. (Also see Centers for Independent Living and DNEC.)
- InfoLine 2·1·1
Infoline is an integrated system of help via the telephone - a single source for information about community services, referrals to human services, and crisis intervention. It is accessed toll-free from anywhere in Connecticut by simply dialing 2-1-1. It operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Multilingual caseworkers and TDD access is available. 2-1-1 connects you to agencies and organizations near you that can make a difference. Dial 1-800-203-1234 outside of Connecticut.
- Keep the Promise Coalition
The Keep the Promise Coalition is dedicated to advocating for the "Blue Ribbon Solutions" necessary to maintain and expand critical mental health services for adults and children and housing options to meet their needs. We hope you join us in building the bridge to support, respect and recovery.
- Manchester Area Conference of Churches Charities (MACC)
The mission of Manchester Area Conference of Churches, Inc. is to provide food, clothing, shelter and advocacy for the unmet basic needs of people in the community. MACC now functions as the town of Manchester's primary social services agency. MACC gives emergency assistance during times of crisis to individuals and families in the Manchester and Bolton, Connecticut area. They help feed and clothe those in need, assure them a warm, safe place to sleep at night, and advocate on their behalf when they are faced with eviction, unpaid utility bills, unaffordable prescriptions, and other issues which affect their basic needs. Contact:
Manchester Area Conference of Churches
466 Main Street
Manchester, CT 06045-3804
Phone: (860) 647-8003
On the web: www.macc-ct.org
By email: see contact List
- Mental Health Association of CT (MHAC)
The mission of MHAC is to advocate and work for everyone's mental health. The Mental Health Association of Connecticut, Inc. (MHAC) was founded in 1908 as the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene by Clifford W. Beers, a New Haven resident and graduate of Yale University who we now believe had bipolar disorder. It is a statewide, private, non-profit organization and is the oldest organization in this country's mental health movement.
- NAMI-CT
NAMI-CT is the only Connecticut organization affiliated with NAMI, the nation's leading grassroots family and consumer organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with serious mental illnesses and their families. Also see NAMI - National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
- Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities
The Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities (P & A) is an independent State agency created to safeguard and advance the civil and human rights of people with disabilities in Connecticut. It is part of a nationwide network of protection and advocacy systems (see National Disability Rights Network below).
- Teen Challenge New England (Residential drug recovery program)
Teen Challenge is a 15 to 21-month Christian residential drug recovery program with an incredible success rate for graduates. 86.6% of graduates after seven years remain drug and crime free, as opposed to 6-7% rate for secular programs. It is part of a network of 10 Teen Challenge centers across New England and New Jersey.
- V.I.P. - Volunteers in Psychotherapy
A community nonprofit organization that provides truly private psychotherapy for no fee (or a low fee). Based in West Hartford, CT, Volunteers In Psychotherapy is dedicated to providing affordable and truly private psychotherapy for the community, in exchange for volunteer work clients donate to the charity of their choice. "We are dedicated to providing affordable and truly private psychotherapy for the community. An alternative to managed care, its destruction of privacy and reliance on pills."
- Will Brady's Online Journal
Will Brady, recipient of the 2001 Dr. Karen Kangas Award, is active in speaking out against mistreatment of people who found themselves in mental hospitals. His online journal is a collection of journal entries, articles, illustrations, links, and more. Related topics include:
· Mental Health
· Disability Rights
· Government
Other Links
- ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act
A link to the ADA Home Page.
- ADS Center
SAMHSA's Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity, and Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health (ADS Center) provides practical assistance in designing and implementing anti-stigma and anti-discrimination initiatives by gathering and maintaining best practice information, policies, research, practices, and programs to counter stigma and discrimination; and actively disseminating anti-stigma/anti-discrimination information and practices to individuals, States and local communities, and public and private organizations.
Previously called the Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma, SAMHSA recently changed the name of the ADS Center. Reducing stigma will continue to be part of the ADS Center's work. See ADS Center name change for more info.
- Advance Directives
Connecticut specific information regarding Advance Directives with links to other prominent Advance Directives resources. Also see:
• Duke University Program on Psychiatric Advance Directives
• National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives
- Alternative Medicine
The collective wisdom of thousands of alternative physicians and practitioners worldwide.
- Alternative Mental Health
Sponsored by Safe Harbor…the mission of Safe Harbor is to assist and promote non-harmful, alternative (non-psychiatric) methods and practitioners for helping the mentally disturbed. Our purpose is to provide education and choice to the public in the matter of alternative mental health practices. Alternative mental health is a growing force in today's world - a beacon of hope for the many who seek a choice over the treadmill of daily medication.
- Anti-Stigma Homepage
National Stigma Clearinghouse - Jean Arnold and Nora Weinerth created the National Stigma Clearinghouse to track stigmatizing stereotypes of mental illness and to provide information about stigma to concerned activists.
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is the leading national legal advocate for people with mental illnesses or mental retardation.
- BringHealth.com
Homeopathic remedies for natural healing. BringHealth.com is dedicated to homeopathy and alternative natural treatments to heal mind, body and spirit.
- Center for Mental Health Services
The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is charged with leading the national system that delivers mental health services. The goal of this system is to provide the treatment and support services needed by adults with mental disorders and children with serious emotional problems.
- Commission on Mental Health
Welcome to the website of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. The Commission was created by Executive Order on April 29, 2002. Its mission is "to conduct a comprehensive study of the United States mental health services delivery system, including public and private sector providers, and to advise the President on methods of improving the system." This website allows those interested to follow the progress of this first comprehensive study of the nation's public and private mental health service delivery system in nearly 25 years.
- CONTAC - Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center
A national consumer-run technical assistance center, created to strengthen and support consumer networks, to identify technical assistance needs and implement related strategies for diverse consumer groups, and to encourage relationship building through its Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center (CONTAC).
- Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery
The Copeland Center works toward transforming lives, programs, and mental health services and systems. Their focus is on the expressed needs of people having mental health difficulties or people who are using services.
- Danvers State Memorial Committee
This is the place to learn more about state hospital cemetery restoration in Massachusetts and how you can help. At state hospitals all across Massachusetts there is a terrible sight: row upon row of small concrete markers with only a number. These anonymous graves mark the resting place of our sisters and brothers - former patients who died at state hospitals - abandoned in life and death.
- DisabilityInfo.gov
DisabilityInfo.gov is the comprehensive Federal website of disability-related government resources, supporting the Bush administration goals outlined in the New Freedom Initiative to use information technology to deliver government services anytime, anywhere and to reduce barriers to the employment of people with disabilities.
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- Duke University Program on Psychiatric Advance Directives
A resource center for information, toolkits, links, laws, statutes, and history related to Psychiatric Advance Directives and Health Care Agents for persons with mental illnesses. See Advance Directives in the Resource Center for Connecticut specific information regarding Advance Directives.
- Duke University Services Effectiveness Research Program (SERP)
A description of ongoing projects in the area of mental health services research. The mission of SERP is to help integrate psychiatric and psychological research into clinical practice.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
A link to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website.
- Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation
The Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation is aware of the needs of people with disabilities in the United States and throughout the world. Our goal of "Changing the Face of Disability on the Planet" is happening. We support professional organizations that work with people with disabilities through grants and scholarships that further our goals of education, advocacy, leadership development, mentorship and the arts.
- Face the Issue
Geared primarily to teens and young adults, facetheissue.com provides information and help on depression, drugs, anorexia, bulimia, abuse, self-esteem, and alcoholism.
- Freedom Center
Freedom Center in Northampton, MA, is the area's only group run by and for people labeled with severe "mental illnesses." We call for compassion, human rights, self-determination, and holistic alternatives.
- Gift From Within
Gift From Within is an international organization for survivors of trauma and victimization. They are a private, non-profit organization dedicated to those who suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), those at risk for PTSD, and those who care for traumatized individuals. Gift From Within develops and disseminates educational material including videotapes, articles, books, as well as a resource catalog, and maintains a roster of survivors who are willing to participate in an international network of peer support.
- HHS Office on Disability
The Health and Human Services Office on Disability website provides comprehensive yet easy-to-access information pertaining to the seven distinct domains of housing, education, information technology, transportation, health, employment, and community integration (as identified by the President's New Freedom Initiative) plus information on advocacy, entitlements, and emergency preparedness. The alignment of content by the seven domains of the President's New Freedom Initiative provides a better organized database where information can be accessed easily and precisely.
- Independent Living USA Directory
Information about independent living and a directory to Independent Living Centers countrywide.
- Institute on Independent Living
The Institute on Independent Living serves self-help organizations of disabled people who work for equal opportunities, self-determination and self-respect. They offer training materials, technical assistance and information on personal assistance, advocacy, access, legislation and peer support.
- International Center for the Study for Psychiatry and Psychology
ICSPP is concerned with the impact of mental health theories on public policy and the effects of therapeutic practices upon individual well-being, personal freedom, and family and community values. For over 25 years ICSPP has been informing the professions, the media and the public about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, and the biological theories of psychiatry.
- Intentional Care
The Intentional Care website is dedicated to bridging the gap between the principles of recovery - choice, relationships, self-determination, empowerment - and the understanding of how to implement these principles in day-to-day work with clients. Since 1994, Advocates, Inc. and Patricia E. Deegan, PhD, have collaborated to find answers to many of the questions facing mental health workers on a daily basis.
- M-Power
M-Power is a 100% mental health consumer run statewide advocacy organization in Massachusetts, that advocates for political and social change within the mental health system, the community, city, and statewide.
- Mental Health Recovery Self-Help Strategies
Mary Ellen Copeland is a mental health recovery educator and author. Her focus is on self-help. She has learned the concepts, skills and strategies she teaches from her own personal experience with extreme mood swings and from her ongoing studies with people who experience psychiatric symptoms. Her teachings and writings include topics like getting a sense of hope, Wellness Tools, Wellness Recovery Action Planning, Relapse Prevention, Crisis Planning, Developing a Strong Support System, Education, Personal Responsibility, Self-Advocacy, Building Self-Esteem, Healing from the Effects of Trauma, and Relieving Loneliness and Worry. Her expertise is not related to psychiatric medications, psychiatry, or legal advocacy. She does not provide counseling services. The skills and strategies she teaches are not necessarily a replacement for other kinds of treatment, but complement any other treatment.
- MindFreedom
MindFreedom Support Coalition International unites 100 grassroots groups and thousands of members to win campaigns for human rights of people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities. MindFreedom International is where mutual support meets human rights activism... and where democracy meets the mental health system. The MindFreedom Journal (previously named Dendron News) is an awarding winning publication, first published in 1987. The Journal reports on the struggle for human rights in the mental health system in the U.S. and around the world.
- Mouth Magazine
Mouth Magazine is now the only disability rights-oriented magazine put to printed page. Mouth brings the conversation down to street level, where well-intentioned "special" programs wreak havoc in the lives of ordinary people.
- NAMI - National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. NAMI is dedicated to the eradication of mental illnesses and to the improvement of the quality of life of all whose lives are affected by these diseases. Also see NAMI-CT.
- NARPA - National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
NARPA is dedicated to promoting those policies and pursuing those strategies that represent the preferred options of people who have been labeled mentally disabled. NARPA is committed to advocating the abolishing of all forced treatment laws, and to promoting rights protection and advocacy which focuses upon both the right to choose and the specific choices of those who request assistance.
- National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center
NCSTAC was established in 1998 by a grant from the Center for Mental Health Services. Our purpose is to strengthen those organizations supporting mental health consumers, survivors and ex-patients by providing technical assistance in the forms of research, informational materials, and financial aid.
- National Council on Disability
The National Council on Disability (NCD) is an independent federal agency making recommendations to the President and Congress on issues affecting 54 million Americans with disabilities.
- National Disability Rights Network (National Office)
-- Formerly Protection & Advocacy
The National Disability Rights Network, formerly the National Association of Protection & Advocacy Systems (NAPAS), was established in 1977 to promote the rights of children and adults with disabilities. The nonprofit membership organization for the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and Client Assistance Programs (CAP) for individuals with disabilities, the P&A/CAP network is collectively the largest provider of legally based advocacy services to people with disabilities in the United States. It provides information on disability rights and services, and advocates for people with disabilities who have been discriminated against or who are experiencing difficulty securing relevant supports and services.
- National Empowerment Center (NEC)
Recovery is real and this website is filled with practical information that will help you recover if you have been labeled with a mental illness. NEC is headed by nationally known executive director Daniel B. Fisher, M.D., PhD.
- National Institute of Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal government's principal biomedical and behavioral research agency. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NIMH mission is to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior.
- National Mental Health Association
The National Mental Health Association is the country's oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness. With more than 340 affiliates nationwide, NMHA works to improve the mental health of all Americans, especially the 54 million people with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research and service.
- National Mental Health Awareness Campaign - No Stigma!
The National Mental Health Awareness Campaign was created in order to educate the public about mental health issues and eradicate the fear, shame and stigma commonly associated with mental illness, NMHAC has as its primary goal the development of a nationwide, public service, multi-media education initiative.
- National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, is a consumer-run national technical assistance center serving the mental health consumer movement. We help connect individuals to self-help and advocacy resources, and we offer expertise to self-help groups and other peer-run services for mental health consumers.
- National Mental Health Information Center
The National Mental Health Information Center, formerly the Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN), provides information about mental health via a toll-free telephone number (800-789-2647), its website, and more than 600 publications. It was developed for users of mental health services and their families, the general public, policy makers, providers, and the media. It is made available through SAMHSA and CMHS.
- National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives
Duke University Medical Center and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law have teamed together to launch the National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives (NRC-PAD). The NRC-PAD provides consumers with mental illness, their family members, clinicians, and policy-makers with key information about PADs, including PAD forms, links to statutes, educational webcasts, discussion forums, FAQs, and current research. Contains state specific info, help, and forms (see Connecticut info). Also see Advance Directives in the Resource Center for Connecticut specific information regarding Advance Directives.
- National Stigma Clearinghouse
Jean Arnold and Nora Weinerth created the National Stigma Clearinghouse to track stigmatizing stereotypes of mental illness and to provide information about stigma to concerned activists.
- National Technical Assistance Center
The National Technical Assistance Center (NTAC) delivers customized, on-site technical assistance to State Mental Health Agencies, State Mental Health Planning and Advisory Councils, consumers, families and other organizations on issues related to mental health planning, service delivery and evaluation such as managed care, housing, system financing, performance measures and employment.
- NetZero - Low Cost Internet Access
Internet access from NetZero is only $9.95 per month. You can also get high speed Internet (through your phone line) for $14.95 per month.
- No Kidding, Me Too!
Entertainment industry members unite to de-stigmatize mental illness. No Kidding, Me Too! is a nonprofit organization comprised of entertainment industry members united in an effort to educate Americans about the epidemic related to mental illness in all forms. They teach those suffering from it, and their loved ones who are victims of it, to talk about it openly. The goal is to tear this stigma out of the closet and de-isolate it so that these people will be surprised to find millions of others like themselves and say, "No Kidding, Me Too!"
- No Stigma (National Mental Health Awareness Campaign)
This organization is a nationwide nonpartisan public education campaign that was launched as part of the 1999 White House Conference on Mental Health. They are dedicated to battling the stigma, shame, and myths surrounding mental disorders that prevent so many people from getting the help they need.
- Online Health Resources
A comprehensive directory of health related websites, including links to helpful sites pertaining to mental health and addictions.
- OpenMindsOpenDoors
OpenMindsOpenDoors is a Pennsylvania initiative aimed at ending discrimination against people with mental illnesses. Approximately one in five people in this country live with a mental illness -- people who have needs just like everyone else and demand basic rights just like everyone else.
- PEER Center
The PEER Center is a not-for-profit advocacy and support center for mental health consumers. PEER Center's name was chosen to represent its goals of "Personal Empowerment, Education and Recreation." PEER Center is the largest independent consumer-run mental health program in Florida and one of the largest in the nation.
- PeoplePC - Low Cost Internet Access
You can get online for as low as $10.95 per month from PeoplePC. No credit card required, but you will need to have a checking account. Please be sure to read the details.
- Peter Lehmann Publishing
Here you will find books and information, orientated to the interests of survivors and (ex)users of psychiatry, their friends, relatives and professionals, for example:
- Coming off Psychiatric Drugs - Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics,
Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers, with prefaces
by Judi Chamberlin, Loren R. Mosher and Pirkko Lahti, edited by Peter
Lehmann (Berlin 2004).
- Prescription Drug Assistance Programs
Links to organizations whose purpose is to offer information about, or assistance with, Patient Assistance Programs that provide free medications for a small processing fee to low-income individuals and families. Please be sure to read all the requirements and qualifications.
- President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
Links to the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Final Report:
 All Reports
Full Report
Executive Summary
- Protection and Advocacy (National Office)
See National Disability Rights Network above.
- Ragged Edge Online
Ragged Edge Online is the successor to the award-winning periodical, The Disability Rag, which became Ragged Edge magazine in 1997. Today, Ragged Edge is an exclusively online publication. The Ragged Edge examines current and emerging public issues from a disability perspective: civil rights, politics, culture, humor, sexuality, art, technology. They publish freelance journalism, essays, poetry and fiction.
- Repository of Recovery Resources
This web-based repository of recovery resource information, from the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, was developed to assist state mental health administrators and consumers in state offices of consumer/recipient affairs in their work to create more recovery-oriented mental health systems.
- Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity, and Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health (ADS Center)
SAMHSA's Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity, and Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health (ADS Center) helps people design, implement and operate programs that reduce discrimination and stigma associated with mental illnesses. With the most up-to-date research and information, the Center helps individuals, organizations and governments counter such discrimination and stigma in the community, in the workplace, and in the media.
Previously called the Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma, SAMHSA recently changed the name of the ADS Center. Reducing stigma will continue to be part of the ADS Center's work. See ADS Center name change for more info.
- SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has established a clear vision for its work -- a life in the community for everyone. To realize this vision, the Agency has sharply focused its mission on building resilience and facilitating recovery for people with or at risk for mental or substance use disorders. SAMHSA is gearing all its resources -- programs, policies and grants -- toward that outcome.
- SAMHSA Elimination of Barriers Initiative (EBI)
A link to SAMHSA's recently updated and expanded official website for the Elimination of Barriers Initiative (EBI) - an eight state demonstration project designed to support and evaluate efforts to address the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illnesses. The EBI uses public education, contact, and reward methods to achieve this goal. The Initiative also features materials for the general public, including public service announcements and a brochure, as well as resources for addressing stigma in school and workplace settings.
- Sharing the Hope, Sharing the Healing
The purpose of Sharing the Hope, Sharing the Healing is to tell the stories of people who through their hope have achieved healing and are now living productive and fulfilling lives.
- SoberRecovery.com - Thousands of Alcoholism and Addiction Resources
The SoberRecovery directory lists hundreds of drug rehab and treatment centers, alcohol rehabilitation centers, sober living houses and recovery related web sites. We offer help, referrals and information for heroin, cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, and treatment program options including detox, teen boot camps, wilderness programs and outpatient programs for adults or adolescents.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SAMHSA is the Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
- Tardive-Dyskinesia
Tardive, meaning late, and dyskinesias being movement disorders, are neurological side effects of antipsychotic medications that can be disabling and disfiguring. The Tardive-Dyskinesia website offers information on the symptoms, treatment, and side effects of Tardive Dyskinesia and information on the many antipsychotic drugs utilized in the treatment of schizophrenia. Resources for contacting a lawyer and learning about legal rights regarding Tardive Dyskinesia are also available on the site.
- The Work Site
 The Work Site is part of the Social Security Online website, and provides employment support for people with disabilities. You'll also find complete info about the "Ticket to Work" program. The mission is to promote the employment of Social Security beneficiaries with disabilities.
- World Fellowship for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders
The World Fellowship for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders (WFSAD) provides support and information for families coping with schizophrenia and serious mental illness. WFSAD is the only global grassroots organization dedicated to lightening the burden of schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses for sufferers and their families. Visit WFSAD to locate international Family Self-Help, Support, and Advocacy Associations.
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