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Mental Health Advocacy: Advocacy and Activism Organizations

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National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) With more than 220,000 members, NAMI is the nation's leading grassroots advocacy organization solely dedicated to improving the lives of persons with severe mental illnesses. The Mental Health Consumer Initiative The Mental Health Consumer Initiative is a consumer advocacy organization for mental health and mental health related issues.

 

Resource List

• Association for Mental Health Alternatives: Guided by the principles of choice, empowerment, self-determination, and unity of purpose, the Association for Mental Health Alternatives (AMHA) is a human rights organization that advocates for self-help and alternatives to established mental health systems.
• The Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council Inc. (VMIAC): Based in Melbourne Australia. The VMIAC is a consumer/survivor advocacy organisation for people with mental health problems. Its membership includes both consumer/survivor groups and individuals who have experienced difficulties with their mental or emotional health.
• Lemon Tree Learning Project: The Lemon Tree Learning Project works to develop consumer participation in the mental health services to create a genuine partnership between consumers and service providers.
• The Mental Health Consumer Initiative: The Mental Health Consumer Initiative is a consumer advocacy organization for mental health and mental health related issues.
• Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse: We are committed to helping mental health consumers improve their lives through self-help and advocacy. Specifically, we help consumers plan, provide, and evaluate mental health and community support services.
• Mental Health Parity: What Can It Accomplish in a Market Dominated by Managed Care? In September 1996, in a surprising demonstration of strength by advocates for people with mental illness, Congress passed and the President signed the Mental Health Parity Act. It declared that companies that provide their workers with mental health benefits could not make the annual or lifetime dollar ceilings on those benefits any more restrictive than their ceilings on medical/surgical benefits.
• People Who: Each other on the Internet - people who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions. Human, civil, rights, advocacy, moods, fear, voices, visions, mad, mind, crazy, consumer, mental, health.
• MIND’s Policies: Recommendations are made concerning community services, closure of psychiatric hospitals, and service provision for ethnic minorities. This informative Policy Paper addresses both issues affecting women in general: safety, women and children, self-harm, depression etc, as well as specific issues affecting particular groups of women: careers, black and ethnic minority women.
• National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy: "NARPA exists to expose abuse, to shed light on coercive and dangerous practices, and to promote real alternatives to a mental health system that even professionals agree is a disgrace. Read about the history of mental health advocacy, and check out the ADA Case of the Week, and more."
• RadPsyNet- the Radical Psychology Network: RadPsyNet seeks like-minded psychologists and others to help create a society better able to meet human needs and bring about social justice.