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Advocacy Unlimited, Inc. - Information and resources for persons with mental health disabilities. Also an educational program for mental health advocacy skills.
Coalition for Persons Disabled by Mental Illness - North Carolina coalition of mental health professionals, consumers, families and advocates organized to pursue lobbying and mental health reform initiatives.
East Suffolk Advocacy Networks - ESAN is an independent, user managed organization committed to the empowerment of mental health service users. Lists the office locations, news and upcoming events.
Freedom Center - Northampton MA - Support, human rights advocacy, and holistic alternatives for people labeled 'mentally ill' in the Pioneer Valley, MA.
GIDreform.org - Challenging Psychiatric Gender Stereotypes - GIDreform.org is a resource for all who advocate reform of the psychiatric classification of gender diversity as mental disorder.
Living Well with a Psychiatric Disability in Work and School - Information on ADA (the Americans with Disabilities Act), the effect of mental illness on work or schooling, coping, filing a complaint, question of the month.
Mental Health Association of South Carolina - Resources and information for persons diagnosed with mental illness and their families; reports and data on mental health policy, advocacy, conditions, treatment and other issues.
Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - The first Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, asserting that mental illness is a critical public health problem that must be addressed by the nation.
National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse - The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse helps connect individuals to self-help and advocacy resources, and offers expertise to self-help groups and other peer-run services for mental health consumers.
The National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc. - Advocating for mental health patients and professionals via educating the general public about good mental health care and by standing up to fight managed care's abusive practices.
Transcultural Mental Health Centre - Information and resources for people of non-English speaking backgrounds suffering or caring for someone with a mental illness. Translated information also available. Involved in research and education.
Volunteer for Newport Mind Peer Advocacy - Volunteer advocate recruitment for Newport Mind mental health Peer Advocacy in Gwent, South Wales. Full training and supervision provided.

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Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research - The CMHPSR researches the organization, financing, and management structure of mental health care systems and the delivery of mental health services and provides consultation and technical support to those individuals and programs involved in implementing system change. The Center has attempted to use the results of its research and evaluation efforts to inform the decision making of public policy makers at local, state, and national levels.
Center for the Study of Mental Health Policies and Services - (CSMHPS). The Center was established in 1996 to increase the development of high-quality social work research in an active program of public mental health research. It promotes research for children and adults with major mental illness at both the systems and intervention level with particular emphasis on consumer centered services.
Consortium for Applied Research in Mental Health - Paints a picture of psychiatric deinstitutionalization using primarily Southwestern Ontario as a "natural laboratory". Multi-disciplinary research program.
Office of Science Policy and Program Planning - NIMH - OSPPP provides advice and guidance to the NIMH Director and senior Institute staff concerning science policy; strategic planning; program planning and evaluation; other special crosscutting science programs; knowledge exchange; and technology and information transfer.
Policy Research Associates - Research group offering services - applied research, policy analysis, evaluation studies, knowledge development and application, and technical assistance - with a primary focus on mental health services.

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