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Links :
Consumer / survivor organizations
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Consumer / Survivor Organizations
- Active Minds
on Campus is a student-run mental health awareness, education,
and advocacy organization designed for the college campus.
- The Awakenings Project: The mission of the Awakenings Project is
to assist persons with mental illness in developing and enhancing their
creative abilities through art in all its forms, and to raise public
awareness of the creative talents and contributions of people living
with mental illness.
- The Consumer
Information page of CHMS' Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN)
includes resources and a searchable data base of consumers/survivors.
- Consumer Consultancy, a UK social
firm, constituted as a not for profit organisation that is managed
by people who use mental health services.
- Consumer Organization and Networking
Technical Assistance Center (CONTAC)
- The Depression and Bipolar
Support Alliance (DBSA) is a patient-directed national advocacy
organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses - depression
and bipolar disorder. The organization fosters an understanding about
the impact and management of these life-threatening illnesses by
providing up-to-date, scientifically-based tools and information
written in language the general public can understand. DBSA supports
research to promote more timely diagnosis, develop more effective
and tolerable treatments and discover a cure. The organization works
to ensure that people living with mood disorders are treated equitably.
- The Mental Health American, "news
consumers use."
- MadNOTBad is a space for
those affected by mental ill health/distress to share their experiences,
opinions and creative talents online. It's aim is to combat the isolation,
stigma and misconceptions that tend to surround mental illness and promote
the idea that 'being mad don't make you bad'.
- Mind Freedom online, the
website of the Support Coalition International, a nonprofit alliance
of 70 grassroot groups in 11 countries advocating for human rights and
humane empowering alternatives for people diagnosed with psychiatric
disorders.
- National Consumer Supporter Technical
Assistance Center (NCSTAC).
- National Empowerment Center
- Carrying a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people
who have been diagnosed with mental illness.
- National Mental Health Consumers'
Self-Help Clearinghouse. And the NMHC's Directory
of Consumer-Driven Services
- Northeast Ohio Consumer Quality Review
Team, a consumer-run organization that evalautes public mental health
systems and services.
- Older Adult Consumer Mental Health
Alliance: A national nonprofit organization dedicated to advocacy
and public education on behalf of older Americans affected by mental
disorders.
- People Who Net
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