• Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web - “The Mental Health System: Recovery Should Be the Goal”. Definition of recovery and information about Andrea Hercha Schmook, another leader in the field of recovery. Includes links.

• Alcoholics Anonymous - 12-Step Self-help for persons who want to stop drinking.

• Bazelon Center of Mental Health Law - Provides legal advocacy for the “civil rights and human dignity of people with mental disability”.

• Building Community Resilience for Children and Families - This guidebook provides information about building community resilience, helping communities improve their capacity to respond effectively to natural or man-made disasters or acts of terrorism.

• Center for Public Service Psychiatry The Center for Public Service Psychiatry is dedicated to the development and practice of Public Service Psychiatry by providing leadership, collaboration, education and community based research. The Center offers an outstanding fellowship in Public Service Psychiatry. The fellowship is a one-year post-residency opportunity. The Center also enhances Public Service Psychiatry education offered to medical students, psychiatry residents, fellows, primary care physicians, and other provider specialties.

• CSPNJ February 2013 Newsletter.

• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

• Disability Rights Network - Federally funded non-profit agency responsible for providing protection and advocacy services to persons with disabilities.

• Health Bridges - Health Information for persons who are deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing in Western PA To learn more about their own health and ways to access physical and behavioral healthcare in our community. In addition, it is our desire to encourage effective communication between healthcare providers and patients by educating both about individual perspectives, rights, and obligations in the healthcare setting.

• HOPE: Harvesting Our Personal Efforts - Project funded by Ohio Department of Mental Health and the Hamilton County Mental Board, to provide recovery based information about mental illness for consumers, families, professionals, and the community. Example of state-level recovery based mental health information and education model.

• Information on CONTAC - Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center

• Intentional Care Learning Community - Education, evaluation and performance measurement tools for bridging the gap between the principles of recovery and service provider understanding of how to implement those principles in their day to day work with persons who have mental illness and/or addiction disease.

• The Institute for Recovery and Community Integration - The Institute for Recovery and Community Integration works to introduce and advance communities' understanding of recovery and community integration as the catalyst for transforming individual lives, communities, and all levels of behavioral health systems in a culturally competent manner.

• Keystones for Collaboration and Leadership: Issues and Recommendations for Transforming Community Psychiatry - A report on the discussions held in March, 2006 with a broad array of consumers, providers and family members.

• LifeRing Secular Recovery - Dedicated to secular recovery from alcoholism. Includes a newsletter, an art gallery, a list of meetings, and links to related sources.

• Mary Ellen Copeland - Lists books, articles, etc.

• MHA of Los Angeles, California - An example of a recovery based treatment model (Los Angeles, California).

• Mind Freedom - Defines rights of persons within the psychiatric service system. Resources include information on political activities and campaigns and an extensive book and video catalog.

• NAMI Southwestern Pennsylvania

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) - National advocate organization for families of persons with mental illness.

• NAMI Santa Cruz County, California - Santa Cruz County: Articles and links related to mental health recovery.

• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence - Provides a self-test and information on treatment programs available through the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence in Kansas City.

• National Institute of Mental Health - Federally funded agency whose stated mission is “to understand mind, brain and behavior, and to reduce the burden of mental illness through research”.

• National Mental Health Consumer’s Self Help Clearinghouse - Consumer technical assistance guide to use of the internet for access to self-help.

• PA Organization for Women in Early Recovery (POWER) Helping women reclaim their lives from the disease of addiction to alcohol and other drugs, and reducing the incidence of addiction in future generations.

• PTSD Recovery: Understanding Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Recovery - A brochure from the National Alliance on Mental Illness on post-traumatic stress disorder, treatment and recovery from PTSD. It is intended to help individuals experiencing serious difficulties following significant traumatic events such as combat, rape and natural disaster. It is also intended to help with their families, significant others and caregivers to understand the nature of PTSD and the recovery process.

• Pennsylvania Department of Health - An all in one handbook for the services that are available to Pennsylvania residents.

• Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumers Association - PMHCA is a statewide membership organization representative of the individual and collective expression of people who have recovered or are recovering from mental illness.

• Recovery Resources On-Line - Resources for recovery from alcoholism, addiction, substance abuse, abuse and trauma, dual diagnosis and other behavioral health problems.

• Research Opportunity: Developing Weight Loss Programs - The TU Collaborative invites you to participate in a new survey that seeks to gather input from individuals with psychiatric disabilities about the resources and services that would help them to achieve their weight loss goals.

• SAMHSA/CMHS Evaluation Technical Assistance Center - A compendium of instruments for measuring recovery presents information about how each instrument was developed, its psychometric properties, and its use to date. The compendium may help States and mental health system stakeholders to determine the best ways to measure the effects of system and program efforts on recovery. People can have the compendium emailed to them directly from the Evaluation Center through the website at tecathsri.org. "Search" for "Recovery Compendium" and it will take you to the page where you can add the document to your electronic cart (i.e., they will email it to you for free).

• Schizophrenics Anonymous - Mutual aid group for persons with schizophrenia. Includes a profile of recovery designed to help members rise above their illness.

• Schizophrenia Information, Support, and Education

• Suicide Prevention Resources - Links to a variety of resources about suicide prevention.

• Underinsured or Uninsured?: A Guide to Health Care Resources in Allegheny County - (PHYSICAL HEALTH) from the Allegheny County Health Department

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• Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web - “The Mental Health System: Recovery Should Be the Goal”. Definition of recovery and information about Andrea Hercha Schmook, another leader in the field of recovery. Includes links.

• Alcoholics Anonymous - 12-Step Self-help for persons who want to stop drinking.

• Bazelon Center of Mental Health Law - Provides legal advocacy for the “civil rights and human dignity of people with mental disability”.

• Building Community Resilience for Children and Families - This guidebook provides information about building community resilience, helping communities improve their capacity to respond effectively to natural or man-made disasters or acts of terrorism.

• CSPNJ February 2013 Newsletter.

• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

• Disability Rights Network - Federally funded non-profit agency responsible for providing protection and advocacy services to persons with disabilities.

• Health Bridges - Health Information for persons who are deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing in Western PA To learn more about their own health and ways to access physical and behavioral healthcare in our community. In addition, it is our desire to encourage effective communication between healthcare providers and patients by educating both about individual perspectives, rights, and obligations in the healthcare setting.

• HOPE: Harvesting Our Personal Efforts - Project funded by Ohio Department of Mental Health and the Hamilton County Mental Board, to provide recovery based information about mental illness for consumers, families, professionals, and the community. Example of state-level recovery based mental health information and education model.

• Information on CONTAC - Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center

• Intentional Care Learning Community - Education, evaluation and performance measurement tools for bridging the gap between the principles of recovery and service provider understanding of how to implement those principles in their day to day work with persons who have mental illness and/or addiction disease.

• The Institute for Recovery and Community Integration - The Institute for Recovery and Community Integration works to introduce and advance communities' understanding of recovery and community integration as the catalyst for transforming individual lives, communities, and all levels of behavioral health systems in a culturally competent manner.

• Keystones for Collaboration and Leadership: Issues and Recommendations for Transforming Community Psychiatry - A report on the discussions held in March, 2006 with a broad array of consumers, providers and family members.

• LifeRing Secular Recovery - Dedicated to secular recovery from alcoholism. Includes a newsletter, an art gallery, a list of meetings, and links to related sources.

• Mary Ellen Copeland - Lists books, articles, etc.

• MHA of Los Angeles, California - An example of a recovery based treatment model (Los Angeles, California).

• Mind Freedom - Defines rights of persons within the psychiatric service system. Resources include information on political activities and campaigns and an extensive book and video catalog.

• NAMI Southwestern Pennsylvania

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) - National advocate organization for families of persons with mental illness.

• NAMI Santa Cruz County, California - Santa Cruz County: Articles and links related to mental health recovery.

• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence - Provides a self-test and information on treatment programs available through the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence in Kansas City.

• National Institute of Mental Health - Federally funded agency whose stated mission is “to understand mind, brain and behavior, and to reduce the burden of mental illness through research”.

• National Mental Health Consumer’s Self Help Clearinghouse - Consumer technical assistance guide to use of the internet for access to self-help.

• PA Organization for Women in Early Recovery (POWER) Helping women reclaim their lives from the disease of addiction to alcohol and other drugs, and reducing the incidence of addiction in future generations.

• PTSD Recovery: Understanding Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Recovery - A brochure from the National Alliance on Mental Illness on post-traumatic stress disorder, treatment and recovery from PTSD. It is intended to help individuals experiencing serious difficulties following significant traumatic events such as combat, rape and natural disaster. It is also intended to help with their families, significant others and caregivers to understand the nature of PTSD and the recovery process.

• Pennsylvania Department of Health - An all in one handbook for the services that are available to Pennsylvania residents.

• Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumers Association - PMHCA is a statewide membership organization representative of the individual and collective expression of people who have recovered or are recovering from mental illness.

• Recovery Resources On-Line - Resources for recovery from alcoholism, addiction, substance abuse, abuse and trauma, dual diagnosis and other behavioral health problems.

• Research Opportunity: Developing Weight Loss Programs - The TU Collaborative invites you to participate in a new survey that seeks to gather input from individuals with psychiatric disabilities about the resources and services that would help them to achieve their weight loss goals.

• SAMHSA/CMHS Evaluation Technical Assistance Center - A compendium of instruments for measuring recovery presents information about how each instrument was developed, its psychometric properties, and its use to date. The compendium may help States and mental health system stakeholders to determine the best ways to measure the effects of system and program efforts on recovery. People can have the compendium emailed to them directly from the Evaluation Center through the website at tecathsri.org. "Search" for "Recovery Compendium" and it will take you to the page where you can add the document to your electronic cart (i.e., they will email it to you for free).

• Schizophrenics Anonymous - Mutual aid group for persons with schizophrenia. Includes a profile of recovery designed to help members rise above their illness.

• Schizophrenia Information, Support, and Education

• Suicide Prevention Resources - Links to a variety of resources about suicide prevention.

• Underinsured or Uninsured?: A Guide to Health Care Resources in Allegheny County - (PHYSICAL HEALTH) from the Allegheny County Health Department

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• Center for Public Service Psychiatry The Center for Public Service Psychiatry is dedicated to the development and practice of Public Service Psychiatry by providing leadership, collaboration, education and community based research. The Center offers an outstanding fellowship in Public Service Psychiatry. The fellowship is a one-year post-residency opportunity. The Center also enhances Public Service Psychiatry education offered to medical students, psychiatry residents, fellows, primary care physicians, and other provider specialties.

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