Links to Other Empowering Websites
These websites do not necessarily represent the opinions of the National Empowerment Center.
Alternative / Spiritual Treatment Methods
- Alternative Mental Health: www.alternativementalhealth.com
- Holistic Mentality: www.holisticmentality.com
- Perelandra (flower essences): www.perelandra-ltd.com
- True Hope: www.truehope.com
Autism
- The Autistic Self Advocacy Network: www.autisticselfadvocacy.org
- Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network: www.awnnetwork.org
- Ed Wiley Autism Acceptance Lending Library: www.neurodiversitylibrary.org
- Autism Acceptance Month: www.autismacceptancemonth.com
- Amythest Schaber’s Ask An Autistic Video Series: www.youtube.com/user/
neurowonderful - Autistic culture: https://autismacceptance.com/resources/
- How to Support an Autistic Person During Autism Awareness Month: https://www.wikihow.
com/Support-an-Autistic- Person-During-Autism- Awareness-Month - Crisis Supports for the Autism Community: https://suicidology.org/resources/autism-resources
- Creating an Autism Friendly Home: www.bigrentz.com/blog/sensory-friendly-home-modifications-autism-sensory-processing-disorder
- Autism and Travel: www.thezebra.com/traveling-autism
- How to Create a Backyard Sanctuary for Kids with Disabilities: https://www.homeadvisor.com/r/disability-friendly-backyard-for-kids/
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
- Minority Health – https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov
- National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED) – http://nned.net
- Refugee Health – http://refugeehealthta.org
- Think Cultural Health – https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov
Disability Rights
- Americans With Disabilities Act – https://www.ada.gov/
- Job Accommodation Network – http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu
- National Research and Training Center of the National Institute on Disability and Research – http://www.cmhsrp.uic.edu/nrtc/
History of Mental Health Consumer / Survivors
- Bibliography of First Person Accounts of Madness – www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/assets/Academics/Hornstein_Bibliography.pdf
- Danvers State Memorial Committee to Restore Hospital Cemetery – https://dsmc.info
- Eastern State Hospital Kentucky Cemetery Restoration – www.kykinfolk.com/esh
- In Our Own Voice: African American Stories of Oppression, Survival, and Recovery in Mental Health Systems by Vanessa Jackson – https://power2u.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/InOurOwnVoiceVanessaJackson-1.pdf
- The Opal Project – www.theopalproject.org/id9.html
- Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto – www.psychiatricsurvivorarchives.com
- Wild Indians: Native Perspectives on the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians by Pemina Yellow Bird – https://power2u.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/NativePerspectivesPeminaYellowBird-1.pdf
Information Technology / Social Media
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- Beth Kanter’s Blog: How Networked Nonprofits are Using Social Media to Power Change – www.bethkanter.org
- NEC’s Information Technology Page
Legal Resources
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law – www.Bazelon.org
- Medical Malpractice Help – www.medicalmalpracticehelp.com
- Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter – https://www.jstor.org/journal/menphydislawrep
- National Association for Rights, Protection & Advocacy – www.narpa.org
- National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives – www.nrc-pad.org
- PsychRights – www.psychrights.org
Media
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- The Mad Market – www.mindfreedom.org/mad-market
Mental Health Services
- Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation – www.bu.edu/cpr/
- The Center for Mental Health Services – https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/offices-centers/cmhs
- Evaluation Center at the Human Services Research Institute – www.tecathsri.org
- National Mental Health Association – www.nmha.org
- SAMHSA/Knowledge Exchange Network –www.mentalhealth.org
- Volunteers in Psychotherapy – www.ctvip.org
Online Self-help and Support
- e-couch – a self-help interactive program with modules for depression, generalised anxiety & worry, social anxiety, relationship breakdown, and loss & grief. Click here to visit e-couch.
- Beacon – portal to online applications for mental and physical health issues. Click here to visit Beacon.
- Internet a Vital Connection for People with Mental Illness – Report
- Antidote Health – resources for those struggling with suicide/crisis: Click here to visit Antidote Health.
Recovery / Empowerment
- Another Way: www.anotherwayvt.org
- Artists for Change: https://peerarts4change.org/
- Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale – Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) Webinars –http://www.samhsa.gov/brss-tacs/webinarsDavid Healy’s site on medication: www.rxisk.org
- Center for Independent Living: https://thecil.org/
- The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care – www.mentalhealthexcellence.org
- Freedom Center – www.freedom-center.org
- Help and Healing from Violence – www.witnessjustice.org
- The Icarus Project – www.theicarusproject.net
- International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology – http://www.icspp.org
- Intervoice – www.intervoiceonline.org
- Liberatory Wellness Network: https://liberatorywellnessnetwork.com/
- Lived Experience Recovery Network (LERN): http://livedexperience.org/
- Madness – www.peoplewho.org
- Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures, Volume II
- MIND – www.mind.org.uk
- MindFreedom International – www.mindfreedom.org
- National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse – www.mhselfhelp.org
- PeerWorks: https://www.peerworks.ca/
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal – www.bu.edu/cpr
- Small Business and Self Employment for People with Disabilities – www.dol.gov/odep
- Wildflower Alliance: https://wildfloweralliance.org/
Research
- Lived Experience Research Network (LERN): www.livedexperienceresearchnetwork.wordpress.com
Tardive Dyskinesia
- Dystonia Support Groups – https://dystonia-foundation.org/living-dystonia/support-groups/
- Mental Health America (MHA) – Factsheet: Tardive Dyskinesia
- PsychRights – http://psychrights.org
- We Move – www.wemove.org/td
- We Move has an online discussion board dedicated to TD and other movement disorders that we can encourage people to participate in if they have Internet access.
Technical Assistance Centers
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- Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center – The Family Cafe – www.CAFETACenter.net
- Doors to Wellbeing – www.doorstowellbeing.org
- National Empowerment Center TAC – www.tomr90.sg-host.com
- Peer Support Coalition of Florida: www.peersupportfl.org
- Youth MOVE: www.youthmovenational.org
Tobacco Cessation and Mental Health
- American Cancer Society – Multiple links on how to quit smoking: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/tobacco.html
- Online resources for quitting smoking: www.smokefree.gov
- Resources for quitting smoking for people with mental health and substance abuse issues – http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/behavioral-health
- Tobacco Free Life – www.tobaccofreelife.org
Trauma Recovery
- The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study – www.acestudy.org
- Healing Self-Injury blog – http://healingselfinjury.org
- Mental Health Peers – www.mentalhealthpeers.com
- Western Massachusetts Training Consortium – www.wmtcinfo.org