RESOURCES

Issues

• Forced Treatment
  • Should Forced Medication be a Treatment Option in Patients with Schizophrenia?
• Peer Support
  • Peer Support and Advocacy
  • Peer Support in Disaster Planning
  • Peer Support: Disaster Preparation for People with Psychiatric Disabilities (Video Presentation)
• Seclusion and Restraint - A Risk Management Guide [PDF - 246KB, 35 pages]
• Recovery
  • Consensus Definition of Recovery and 10 Fundamental Components (SAMHSA Brochure)
  • From Dream to Reality: How Consumers are Driving the Recovery Transformation (34 page PowerPoint presentation)
• Transformation
  • Campaign for Mental Health Reform
  • SAMHSA plan to implement the New Freedom Commission Report
  • Statewide Systems Transformation – Voices of Transformation: Developing Recovery-Based Statewide Consumer/Survivor Organizations (PDF, 2MB - 104 pages)

Organizations

• Alliance Empowerment Coalition

www.recoveryisreal.org

• Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health

www.psychrehab.org

• CHOICE of New Rochelle, Inc.

420 North Avenue, 2nd Floor
New Rochelle, NY 10801

Joshua Koerner

914/576-0173
914/576-0178

www.cloud9.net/~choice

Send email

Housing Options Made Easy

www.housingoptions.org

• Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research

140 Old Orangeburg Road
Orangeburg, NY 10962

Phone: 845-398-5500

Fax: 845-398-5510

Send email

www.rfmh.org/nki/

• NYAPRS

NYAPRS is a statewide coalition of people who use and/or provide recovery-oriented community based services. We value difference and promote cultural competence in all aspects of our work.

NYAPRS is dedicated to improving services and social conditions for people with psychiatric disabilities or diagnoses and those with trauma-related conditions by promoting their recovery, rehabilitation and rights so that all people can participate freely in the opportunities of society.

1 Columbia Place, 2nd Fl.
Albany, NY 12207

Ph: 518.436.0008, ext. 11
Fax: 518-436-0044

www.nyaprs.org

• Peer Networking Group

An organization of persons with mental health diagnoses who come together to empower one another and work in equal partnership with providers, policy makers and concerned citizens.  We seek to make the system of services the most responsive and respectful of our needs and gifts.

800 S. Wilbur Ave. Rm 3E3-22
Syracuse, NY 13204

Maria Abbey, Director

315/473-1544
315/473-0568-FAX

Send email

www.peernetworkinginggroup.org

• PEOPLe, Inc. (Project to Organize and Empower the Psychiatrically Labeled)

P.O. Box 5010
Poughkeepsie, NY 12602

Steve Miccio, Executive Director

845/452-2728 - Poughkeepsie
845/452-2793 - FAX

www.projectstoempower.org/

• Recovery, Inc.

The Recovery Method is a system of cognitive/behavioral techniques to help manage and control nervous symptoms and fears. Recovery, Inc. has helped people struggling with: stress and tension—depression and fatigue—anger and fears—anxiety and panic—feelings of helplessness or hopelessness—sleep problems and worry—relationship problems and other emotional problems.

For further information call (713) 466-3387, or Recovery, Inc. headquarters in Chicago at (312) 337-5661

802 N. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60610

www.recovery-inc.org

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• Recovery Circles

Recovery Circles provides mutual recovery support group materials.

www.recoverycircles.org

• RESPECT, Inc. (Recipient Evaluation Services to Providers for Effective Consumer Treatment)

A recipient owned and operated survey company specializing in
recipient to recipient satisfaction and other surveys.

www.respectinc.net

• Restoration Society

Restoration Society, Inc. Clubhouses are rehabilitation communities founded upon the recovery vision -- that all individuals who experience psychiatric disabilities can make a valuable contribution in the community and lead active lives filled with hope and satisfaction.

www.psychrehab.org

• The Mental Health Foundation

The Mental Health Foundation (formerly the Foundation of Advocacy for Mental Health) encourages, develops and supports educational campaigns and other initiatives to improve understanding of mental illness and ensure access to quality care. The Foundation is particularly concerned with efforts to reduce the stigma of mental illness and encouraging individuals to seek early diagnosis.

www.mentalhealthfoundation.net

• Western New York Independent Living Project, Inc.

The Western New York Independent Living Project, Inc. family of agencies is a catalyst for systems and individual change, enhancing the quality of life for persons with disabilities, while respecting diversity, and promoting choices and alternatives for independent living in our societies.

www.wnyilp.org