Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America
The final report from the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health emphasizes the need to transform our nation's mental health system and provides recommendations for steps that can be taken at national, state and local levels to improve mental health services and supports for people of all ages with mental illnesses.

The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
The Bazelon Center is the leading national legal advocate for people with mental disabilities.  It is a great source of up-to-the-minute information on disability rights and anything you need to know about a lot of things that affect our lives, including the ADA.

Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
The center is a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities.  Their work is guided by the most basic of rehabilitation values, that first and foremost, persons with psychiatric disabilities have the same goals and dreams as any other person.  Their mission is to increase the likelihood that they can achieve these goals by improving the effectiveness of people, programs, and service systems.

Copeland, Mary Ellen, MS, MA
Mary Ellen Copeland is a mental health recovery educator and author whose focus is on self-help.  Her teachings and writings include topics like getting a sense of hope, wellness tools, Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP), 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.

The Copeland Center
The Copeland Center works toward transforming lives, programs, and mental health services and systems. 

The Institute for Recovery and Community Integration
The mission of The Institute for Recovery and Community Integration is to introduce and advance the principles of mental health recovery, peer support and community integration as the catalyst for transforming individual lives and also local, state, and national mental health systems.  The Institute seeks to establish personal empowerment, attitudinal change, skill building, self-determination, self-help, peer support, and community integration as the foundations of mental health treatment that emphasizes hope, affirmation, participation, and productivity for consumers of mental health services in a culturally competent manner.

Recovery Innovations
Recovery Innovations (formerly META Services) was a traditional mental health center that totally transformed itself several years ago in order to be more recovery-oriented.  This vision was a transformation in the service delivery system grounded in the belief that people with psychiatric symptoms do recover and move on with their life.  The principle ingredients of this transformation include hope, education, employment, peer support and self-help.

MindFreedom
MindFreedom is an international coalition of over 100 grassroots organizations representing thousands of people around the world.  MindFreedom fights for human rights for people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities.  Join in the discussion and learn about the latest struggles as we move from privileges to rights!

NAMI
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 a national organization including NAMI organizations in every state and in over 1,100 local communities across the country, including Clark County.

National Consensus Statement on Recovery
Statement developed by over 110 expert panelists including mental health consumers, family members, providers, advocates, researchers, academicians, managed care representatives, accreditation organization representatives, state and local public officials, and others.

National Empowerment Center
The mission of the National Empowerment Center is to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been labeled with mental illness.  They carry that message with authority because they are a consumer/survivor/ex-patient-run organization and each of them is living a personal journey of recovery and empowerment.  They 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.

National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse works to foster consumer empowerment through their website, up-to-date news and information announcements, a directory of consumer-driven services, electronic and printed publications, training packages, and individual and onsite consultation.  They help consumers organize coalitions, establish self-help groups and other consumer-driven services, advocate for mental health reform, and fight the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illnesses.  They also strive to help the consumer movement grow by supporting consumer involvement in planning and evaluating mental health services, and encouraging traditional providers and other societal groups to accept people with psychiatric disabilities as equals and full partners in treatment and in society.

National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives (NRC-PAD)
This site offers and introduction to psychiatric advance directives, state-by-state information about advance directive laws, instructions and forms, discussion forums, educational webcasts, current research, and links to other websites.

Pat Deegan & Associates, LLC
Pat Deegan & Associates, LLC is a consumer/survivor/ex-patient run organization. Their mission is to improve the personal, social, economic and cultural well being of people with psychiatric disabilities through ex-patient directed study and research.

Peer-to-Peer Resource Center
The Peer-to-Peer Resource Center was established because they believe that the support of peers is essential to wellness and recovery for people with mental illness.  They are working to bring peer support the recognition it deserves, and to prepare peers to be an integral part of recovery-oriented mental health service delivery systems nationwide.

Repository of Recovery Resources
This web-based repository of recovery resource information 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 health systems.

Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma
SAMHSA's Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma (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.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that was created as a services agency to focus attention, programs, and funding on improving the lives of people with or at risk for mental or substance use disorders.  SAMHSA's vision is consistent with the President's New Freedom Initiative that promotes a life in the community for everyone.

What a Difference a Friend Makes
This site is for people living with mental illness and their friends.  You’ll find tools to help in the recovery process, and you can also learn about the different kinds of mental illnesses, read real-life stories about support and recovery, and interact with the video to see how friends can make all the difference.

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