Bazelon Center
http://www.bazelon.org/
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is a nonprofit organization devoted to improving the lives of people with mental illnesses through changes in policy and law.
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The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is a nonprofit organization devoted to improving the lives of people with mental illnesses through changes in policy and law. For nearly four decades our legal and policy advocates have engaged in impact litigation, policy reform and public education to ensure the rights of people with mental illnesses in all areas of life, including housing, employment, education, public systems, health care, the judiciary and more. The Bazelon Center envisions an America where people who have mental disabilities exercise their own life choices and have access to the resources that enable them to participate fully in their communities. ...more
CAFE TA Center
http://cafetacenter.net
The CAFÉ TA Center is a program of The Family Café, a cross-disability organization that has been connecting individuals with information, training and resources for more than twelve years. The Center is supported by SAMHSA to operate one of its five national technical assistance centers; providing technical assistance, training, and resources that facilitate the restructuring of the mental health system through effective consumer directed approaches for adults with serious mental illnesses across the country.
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The project utilizes a peer driven approach that is founded upon strategies and interventions consistent with self-determination and recovery models and guided by expert consultants and national technical assistance professionals. The CAFÉ TA Center target areas includes transition facilitation; a repository of information, training, tools, and resources that promote the successful hiring and support of peer specialists; and resources and training that will ensure consumer leaders contribute to the system’s capacity to make adjustments at every level to ensure a responsive system of care. This project serves consumer run organizations, consumer assisted organizations, grass-roots consumer advocates, consumer directed programs, consumer leaders, and their partners.
Foster Club
FosterClub is the national network for young people in foster care.
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Every two minutes, a child’s life changes as they enter the foster care system. Currently, there are over 513,000 young people in foster care in across America. FosterClub is their club — a place to turn for advice, information, and hope.
FosterClub helps open the way for these young people to transform their lives and provides a forum to raise their voice. Our members engage with peers and regain control over their situation through support, skill building, and healing opportunities. FosterClub’s young leaders achieve impressive levels of success as they demonstrate remarkable resilience. Here they have real life opportunities to become true heroes as they reach back to improve the foster care system for their younger peers.
The members of FosterClub are resilient young people determined to build a better future for themselves and for other kids coming up through the system behind them. Their success depends on the generosity of concerned individuals and collaborations with partner organizations. If you would like to learn more about FosterClub or how you can support young people in foster care. call 503-717-1552.
Mindfreedom
http://www.mindfreedom.org/
Win human rights in the mental health system!
National Empowerment Center
http://www.power2u.org/
The mission of the National Empowerment Center Inc. is to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been labeled with mental illness. We carry that message with authority because we are a consumer/survivor/expatient-run organization and each of us is living a personal journey of recovery and empowerment. We are convinced that recovery and empowerment are not the privilege of a few exceptional leaders, but rather are possible for each person who has been labeled with mental illness. Whether on the back ward of a state mental institution or working as an executive in a corporation, we want people who are mental health consumers/survivors/expatients to know there is a place to turn to in order to receive the information they might need in order to regain control over their lives and the resources that affect their lives. That place is the National Empowerment Center.
National Mental Health Self-help Clearinghouse
http://mhselfhelp.org/
The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, the nation's first national consumer technical assistance center, has played a major role in the development of the mental health consumer movement. The consumer movement strives for dignity, respect, and opportunity for those with mental illnesses. Consumers--those who receive or have received mental health services--continue to reject the label of "those who cannot help themselves."
The International Centre for Recovery Action in Practice and Research
http://www.icra-wholelife.org/
ICRA Whole Life promotes recovery for people with mental health problems and issues.
Recovery is about people being able to take up their lives again.
It is important for individuals to be supported in their “recovery journeys” by effective and committed mental health workers, family members, friends, local communities and services.
The challenge is to ensure that the opportunity to benefit from recovery practice is available to all.
Most service users, family members, workers, managers and policy makers agree there is a need to change the current system in order to be more recovery oriented.
To accomplish this we have set up this website to enable recovery practitioners to share their commitment, knowledge, and experience of good practice, with each other and the wider community.
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ICRA Whole Life promotes recovery for people with mental health problems and issues.
Recovery is about people being able to take up their lives again.
It is important for individuals to be supported in their “recovery journeys” by effective and committed mental health workers, family members, friends, local communities and services.
The challenge is to ensure that the opportunity to benefit from recovery practice is available to all.
Most service users, family members, workers, managers and policy makers agree there is a need to change the current system in order to be more recovery oriented.
To accomplish this we have set up this website to enable recovery practitioners to share their commitment, knowledge, and experience of good practice, with each other and the wider community.
This site will connect recovery communities (service users, family members, workers, managers and policy makers) with Recovery Community Development Sites, Faculty Members and Members worldwide as learning collaborators by providing meaningful:
Information
Training/Education
Consultancy
Practice development
Research
Veterans' Peer Support
http://www.veteranrecovery.org/peer_support/index.htm
Peer support can be better described as mutual support. This is important to understand. We are equals. We share a sense of mutuality not superiority. The idea of being equal to people and being able to learn from each other is important for mutual support. Not being competitive or superior is important.
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Trying to see what the other person has to offer and learning from them is a characteristic of mutual/peer educational support meetings. The idea of mutuality is important to people. People want to feel acknowledged. People want their views considered. People want their ideas accepted.
Mutual support meetings are a process of attraction. I like the people who attend and they like me. We work together. We try to find a way to talk with each other. We support each other after we have gotten together. After coming together, we stay and try to learn from each other. Our interests are based on mutual respect and knowledge.
---- Moe Armstrong
Vet to Vet Program
Vets4Warriors
http://www.vets4warriors.com/
Why Call Us?
We are here to help. We have all served in uniform for the United States Military. Some members of our staff have served in combat missions while others have served in supporting and peace keeping missions. However, we are all Veterans of the United States Military and we are all here to help the men and women who are currently serving or have served in the National Guard and Reserve.
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While our mission is to serve military and Veterans, we are a separate organization outside of the military. We are also separate from the Veterans Administration. We don't discuss your calls with the military, the VA, or anyone else; your calls to us are completely confidential and, if you choose, you may remain anonymous.
Our staff will listen and not judge you for anything. If you want to just talk, we will support that. If you need some information, we can help you find it. Our deal is to partner with you on your quest and do our best to help you succeed.