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
- Soul Wisdom: www.soulwisdom.net
- 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://www.
autismacceptancemonth.com/ resources/101x/autism- acceptance/autistic-culture/ - 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: www.suicidology.org/Portals/14/Autism%20Crisis%20Supports%20(FINAL).pdf?ver=2018-10-22-120024-940
- 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 – http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/Default.aspx
- National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED) – http://nned.net
- Refugee Health – http://refugeehealthta.org
- Think Cultural Health – www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/content/clas.asp
Disability Rights
- Americans With Disabilities Act – https://www.ada.gov/
- Disability Rights Activist – www.disrights.org
- Higher Education Accommodations from the Felton Institute – http://felton.org/felton-research-center/assistance
- Job Accommodation Network – http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu
- National Council on Disability – “From privileges to rights” – www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/2000/pdf/privileges.pdf
- National Research and Training Center of the National Institute on Disability and Research – http://www.cmhsrp.uic.edu/nrtc/
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
History of Mental Health Consumer / Survivors
- Bibliography of First Person Accounts of Madness – www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/assets/Academics/Hornstein_Bibliography.pdf
- Cemetery Restoration Projects – www.tomr90.sg-host.com/articles/history-project/how.html
- Danvers State Memorial Committee to Restore Hospital Cemetery – www.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
- The Suitcase Exhibit – www.suitcaseexhibit.org
- 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
- Beth Kanter’s Blog: How Networked Nonprofits are Using Social Media to Power Change – www.bethkanter.org
- NEC’s Information Technology Page
- The Future of Mental Health Social Media, by Corinna West – http://corinnawest.com/the-future-of-mental-health-social-media
Legal Resources
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law – www.Bazelon.org
- Medical Malpractice Help – www.medicalmalpracticehelp.com
- Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter – www.abanet.org/disability/reporter/home.html
- National Association for Rights, Protection & Advocacy – www.narpa.org
- National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives – www.nrc-pad.org
- Protection & Advocacy Agencies – www.protectionandadvocacy.com
- Protection and Advocacy for Legal Help in each state – http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/p&a
- PsychRights – www.psychrights.org
Media
- The Mad Market – www.mindfreedom.org/mad-market
- Mouth Magazine – www.mouthmag.org
Mental Health Services
- Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation – www.bu.edu/cpr/
- The Center for Mental Health Services – www.samhsa.gov/centers/cmhs/cmhs.html
- Evaluation Center at the Human Services Research Institute – www.tecathsri.org
- Health6.com – Comprehensive Health Directory www.health6.com
- National Center for Trauma Informed Care – http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/nctic
- 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
Recovery / Empowerment
- Another Way: www.anotherwayvt.org
- Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale – Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) Webinars –http://www.samhsa.gov/brss-tacs/webinars
- Central Mass Recovery Learning Community: www.centralmassrlc.org
- David Healy’s site on medication: www.rxisk.org
- ECT – www.ect.org and www.banshock.org
- EleMental – www.elemental.org.uk
- 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
- Independent Living Centers – www.ilusa.com/links/ilcenters.htm
- International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology – www.icspponline.org
- Intervoice – www.intervoiceonline.org
- Madness – www.peoplewho.org
- Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures, Volume II
- Mental Health Recovery – www.mhrecovery.com
- MIND – www.mind.org.uk
- MindFreedom International – www.mindfreedom.org
- Mother Bear Community Action Network – www.motherbearcan.org
- National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse – www.mhselfhelp.org
- P.A.C.E. Support Group – www.pacesupportgroup.vpweb.com
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal – www.bu.edu/cpr
- Shared Decision Making in Mental Health Webinar: https://center4si.adobeconnect.com/_a966410469/p3546iah0ph
- Small Business and Self Employment for People with Disabilities – www.dol.gov/odep
- Western Mass Recovery Learning Community: www.westernmassrlc.org
Research
- Lived Experience Research Network (LERN): www.livedexperienceresearchnetwork.wordpress.com
Tardive Dyskinesia
- Dystonia-Support.org – www.dystonia-support.org
- Mental Health America (MHA) – Factsheet: Tardive Dyskinesia
- NEC site – http://do.ready-for-feedback.com/tom-rogers-web-design/power-2-u/tardive-dyskinesia-and-tardive-dystonia-where-you-can-turn-for-help/
- PsychRights – http://psychrights.org
- Tardive Dyskinesia Center – www.tardivedyskinesia.com
- Tardive Dyskinesia Lawsuit Claims – http://tardivedyskinesia-lawyer.com
- 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
- 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
- Peerlink Technical Assistance Center, a project of MHA of Oregon – www.peerlinktac.org
- STAR Center (Support, Technical Assistance and Resources) www.consumerstar.org
Tobacco Cessation and Mental Health
- American Cancer Society – Multiple links on how to quit smoking: http://www.cancer.org/search/index?QueryText=quit+smoking&Page=1
- Online resources for quitting smoking: www.smokefree.gov
- QuitDay – Quit Smoking & Breathe Easy – https://quitday.org
- 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
- NCTIC: National Center for Trauma-Informed Care – www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/nctic
- The Shofar Coalition – www.shofarcoalition.org
- Western Massachusetts Training Consortium – www.wmtcinfo.org