SAMHSA PowerPoint Presentation by Deborah Baldwin, MPA.
http://www.nasmhpd.org/Meetings/presentations/Commissioner2012/Deborah%20Baldwin_Monday.pdf
What Are the Arguments for Community-Based Mental Health Care?
World Health Organization (WHO) report. 2003.
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/74710/E82976.pdf
Substance Abuse/Mental Health Treatment Facility Locator
This SAMHSA search tool lists substance abuse and behavioral health treatment facilities all over the country, including all fifty states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.
Consumer-Operated Service Programs: Monetary and Donated Costs and Cost-Effectiveness
Consumer-Operated Service Programs: Monetary and Donated Costs and Cost-Effectiveness
Brian Yates, Danyelle Manix, Michael C. Freed, Jean Campbell, Matthew Johnsen, Kristine Jones, and Crystal R. Blyer. Psychiatric Rehabiltation Journal 2011; 35(2) :91-9.
Shery Mead Consulting
Peer Support and Peer-Run Crisis Alternatives in Mental Health -- This website features trainings developed by Shery Mead, including crisis training and intentional peer support.
National Empowerment Center: Crisis Alternatives
Mental Health America: Information
Information from Mental Health America on mental health/illness, searchable by audience, conditions, and treatments.
Mad In America.com
"The site is designed to serve as a resource and a community for those interested in rethinking psychiatric care in the United States and abroad. We want to provide readers with news, stories of recovery, access to source documents, and the informed writings of bloggers that will further this enterprise."
Website published by Robert Whitaker, author of Mad In American and Anatomy of An Epidemic.
Psychiatric Survivor Oral Histories: Implications for Contemporary Mental Health Policy
A Capstone Report by Oryx Cohen.
A Psychiatric Survivors Book Lost
Compiled by Eric Fabris, February 2007.
http://www.vermontrecovery.com/files/Download/PsychiatricSurvivorsBookList.pdf
NIMH: Women and Mental Health
Information from the National Institute for Mental Health, including latest research, printable brochures and other resources.
http://nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/women-and-mental-health/index.shtml
Women'sHealth.gov: Mental Health
Website is a project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health.
Coping with Epilepsy
Forum community for people with epilepsy and their families. Their welcome page includes a very thorough list of epilepsy web resources.
Epilepsy Foundation
http://epilepsyfoundation.org/
Download brochures here: http://epilepsyfoundation.org/resources/brochures.cfm The brochures include information on epilepsy in conjunction with various mental health issues.
Epilepsy Resources
Lis of resources from the Center for Disease Control website.
Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness
A multi-platform media project that explores severe mental illness in America. Includes full length television program, originally aired on PBS in 2009 and a project toolkit to foster discussion about mental illness in your group or community.
Engaging Women in Trauma-Informed Peer Support
"This guide was created by the National Center on Trauma-Informed Care as a technical assistance document to help make trauma-informed peer support available to women who receive or have received services in behavioral health or other human service systems."
A guide for peer supporters who want to integrate trauma informed principles into their work.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Information on trauma types, treatment, services, policy, and other resources.
The Importance of Personal Medicine
Wellness: Programs & Tools
List of wellness websites, articles, tools and programs, including information on healthy living, tobacco cessation, diabetes management, wellness-informed care, research and media. On the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions.