Links to other resources

Mental health, adult mental health, forensic mental health

• Mental Health Court Research Guide - from the MacArthur Foundation and the Justice Center, January 8, 2010
• Recent Developments in Mental Health Civil Commitment Law - from the First District Appellate Project Training Seminar, January 26, 2008.
• PEERS - Peers Envisioning & Engaging in Recovery Services - a consumer run, non-profit organization that advocates for mental health consumers on every level of the mental health system.
  
• In The Driver’s Seat: A Guide to Self-Directed Mental Health Care, from the University of Pennsylvania Collaborative on Community Integration and Bazelon Center; available free as a PDF to download, or for purchase in hard copy via the Bazelon online bookstore.
• Mentally ill more likely to be crime victims than perpetrators, By Burt Constable, Daily Herald - "The notion that mentally ill people are dangerous, I think, is a dangerous notion," says Mitch Bruski, chief executive officer of the Kenneth Young Center, an Elk Grove Village-based provider of mental health and senior citizens' support services. "They actually statistically are much more likely to be hurt than to hurt other people."
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/reports/index.cfm#subList6 - Summary Guides are short, comprehensive summaries of research reviews, including antidepressant medicines, atypical antipsychotic drugs, and more.
• Asian-American Mental Health On-Line Directory - www.asianmentalhealth.info - mental health resources for Asian Americans.
• Asian Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) - www.acmhs.org/ - empowers Asians & Pacific Islanders to lead healthy, productive and contributing lives, to reduce inequities and injustice, and to advance human achievement.
• The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation - web.bu.edu/SARPSYCH - is affiliated with Sargent College of Allied Health Professions and the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling at Boston University.
• CSSP - The Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, founded by Dr. Peter Breggin, www.breggin.com/ - is a nonprofit research and educational network concerned with the impact of mental health theory and practices on individual well-being, personal freedom, and family and community values. The site information about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, and the biological theories of psychiatry.
• CNMHC - California Network of Mental Health Clients - www.cnmhc.org - CNMHC's mission is to empower clients of the mental health system through self-help groups and networking statewide; to confront stigmatizing attitudes about mental health clients; to promote and instill the rights of clients in and out of treatment situations, with special attention to the right to freedom of choice; to provide every possible reasonable accommodation.
• California Department of Mental Health - www.dmh.ca.gov/ - California’s public mental health system offers an array of community and hospital-based services that are available to adults who have a serious mental illness and children with a severe emotional disorder. 
• California Department of Mental Health Ombudsman Program (flyer in PDF format) - www.pai-ca.org/links/DMHOmbudsman.pdf - If you, or someone you know, needs help navigating the publicly funded mental health service systems, the DMH Ombudsman Program can help.
• California Department of Mental Health Ombudsman Program (flyer in html format) - www.pai-ca.org/links/DMHOmbudsman.htm - If you, or someone you know, needs help navigating the publicly funded mental health service systems, the DMH Ombudsman Program can help.
• The Center for Peer Networking (CPN) - www.nasmhpd.org/consumernetworking.cfm - a program of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD)
• Connect for Kids - www.connectforkids.org - helps adults make their communities better places for families and children.
• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance - www.dbsalliance.org/ - improving the lives of people living with bipolar disorders.
• Forensic Mental Health Association of California - and the Forensic Mental Health 2008 Conference Review - Moving Ahead: Building a Better Continuum of Care.
• Steve Gold's Treasured Nuggets of Information - www.stevegoldada.com - information on housing, medical assistance/medicaid, nursing homes, education, miscellaneous ADA information.
• Healthy Families - http://healthyfamilies.ca.gov - mental health services for children and families.
• Impact: Feature Issue on Disaster Preparedness and People with Disabilities - from the Institute on Community Integration - strategies, stories and resources to help ensure that when the next disaster or emergency occurs, no one is left behind.
• KEN - National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network - www.mentalhealth.org/ - has news, announcements, publications, databases, consumer information, links, and more.
• The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) - psychrights.org/index.htm - law project for psychiatric rights is mounting a legal campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock
• The Law Reporter is the only periodical that comprehensively summarizes legal developments in the areas of civil and criminal mental disability law and disability discrimination law.
• Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services - dcfs.co.la.ca.us - The Department of Children and Family Services will, with our community partners, provide a comprehensive child protection system of prevention, preservation, and permanency to ensure that children grow up safe, physically and emotionally healthy, educated and in permanent homes.
• MHDD - Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Center - www.npi.ucla.edu/mhdd/ - an information and training center dedicated to the mental health needs of people with developmental disabilities. Provides educational modules, directory of service providers, events and relevant links.
• NAMI California - National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, California - www.namicalifornia.org - informing, educating, and supporting people with mental illness and their families. Links to other mental health resources and supports.
• NAMI Veterans Resource Center - mental health resources for veterans, active duty military members, as well as their families, friends, and advocates; covers post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain Injury, mental illness, suicide prevention, public policy and legislation, and more.
• NARPA - National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy - NARPA is dedicated to promoting those policies and pursuing those strategies that represent the preferred options of people who have been labeled mentally disabled.
• National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice - www.edjj.org/index.html - EDJJ examines the overrepresentation of youth with disabilities at risk for contact with the courts or already involved in the juvenile delinquency system.
• National Empowerment Center - www.power2u.org/ - practical information that will help you recover if you have been labeled with a mental illness
• National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse - www.mhselfhelp.org - connects people to self-help and advocacy resources; offers expertise on peer-run groups and organizations that serve people who have been diagnosed with mental illnesses.
• Network of Care - www.networkofcare.org - a web site for people with mental illness to help find services and information, remain independent, and be heard. Includes secure (password) personal folders to store vital information, including advance directive; allows access from any computer via the internet.
• NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health - www.nimh.nih.gov - publications on mental health issues in English and Spanish for consumers, researchers, and the medical community.
• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) - Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education - www.pbis.org.
• SAMHSA - www.stopstigma.samhsa.gov/ - Countering stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness by sharing ideas about what works, promoting best practices, connecting people and programs.
• The Key Update - www.mhselfhelp.org - a free monthly e-newsletter of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse.
• Therapeutic Behavior Services (TBS): Frequently Asked Questions - www.cimh.org/downloads/TBSfaqs.pdf - A nine-page PDF file from the California Institute for Mental Health (CIMH).

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