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Mental Health Services Recovery Resources

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National Association of Peer Supports website
www.naops.org
Includes a wide range of information for peer supports from personal stories, research and trainings and conferences
Depression Bipolar Support Group Peer-Peer Resource Center
www.peersupport.org
This website offers information on peer support trainings and certification curriculum (note DBSG is not an approved PA training vender at this time)
National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center
ConsumerTA@NMHA.org
Website of the Consumer Mental Health Services (CMHS)
Includes a wide range of informative articles on the development of consumer-driven services
National Empowerment Center
www.power2U.org
This website was developed to provide a wide variety of tools designed to enhance consumer voice and empowerment
Featured Link: “The Lives they left behind: Suitcases from the Attic”
Community Care Recovery Learning site
http://www.ccbh.com/providers/recoveryinstitute/webinars/webinars2009.php
Offers a wide variety of archived teleconferences on the implementation of recovery in a variety of teleconferences.
Temple University Collaborative on Community Integration
www.tucollaborative.org
Features work sheets on using recovery in the community through the usage of the Community Integration Toolkit of worksheets. These worksheets expand to include a significant amount of the life choices made by individuals in recovery.
National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery,
http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/ken/pdf/SMA05-4129/trifold.pdf Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Defines the ten fundamental components of recovery.
On Line Recovery Education Training
http://www.magellanhealth.com/training
Series of interactive educational trainings on Recovery and Resiliency offered for continuing education credit.
A Call for Change: Toward a Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Service System for Adults, Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
www.parecovery.org
Comprehensive discussion of mental health system transformation. Excellent resource on recovery. Contains extensive background chapters, including “The Roots of Recovery in Mental Health,” “What does Recovery Look Like?,” “Indicators of a Recovery-oriented Service System,” “Implications of Shifting Toward a Recovery-oriented Mental Healthcare System.”
United State Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA)
www.uspra.org
Features information on conferences, membership, webinars and applications for the Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner certification.
Pennsylvania Association PsychoSocial Rehabilitation Services (PAPSRS)
www.papsrs.org
Features information on psychiatric rehabilitation in Pennsylvania. PAPSRS is the Pennsylvania chapter of USPRA. Includes information on the annual conference, trainings and technical assistance on psychiatric rehabilitation in Pennsylvania.
Recovery to Practice
www.dgsonline.org
Includes information about the Recovery to Practice initiative, the Federal Government's effort to promote recovery for all Americans affected by mental illness. Under this initiative, recovery becomes the goal for all mental health services, and it will become the expectation for anyone with a mental illness. Mental health services will transform to focus on actively facilitating recovery.
Bring Change 2 Mind
www.bringchange2mind.org
Advocates for ending the stigma and bias of mental illness. This national anti-stigma campaign provides resources and information to dispel the stigma. It also provides access to information and support for people who are experiencing mental illness.
Works for Me
www.worksforme-pa.org
A free resource to assist people with disabilities to find agencies and programs that will help them find work and financial security.
Peer Support Coalition
www.papeersupportcoalition.org
Features information about peer support in Pennsylvania, including information about becoming a certified peer support specialist, continued education, and job opportunities.
Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumers' Association
www.pmhca.org
Provides information, referrals and supports to individuals who are receiving services or who are in recovery from mental illness in Pennsylvania. This is a member organization.
Pennsylvania Recovery and Resiliency
www.parecovery.org
Contains resources for understanding and educating others about the behavioral healthy system and the changes that it is going through.
Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery
www.copelandcenter.com
Provides resources to promote personal, organizational and community wellness and empowerment through education, training and research for implementing WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan).
Mental Health Recovery and WRAP – Mary Ellen Copeland
www.mentalhealthrecovery.com/
Focuses on prevention and recovery from mental illness through education, training and research. Includes resources for recovery and WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan).
University of Illinois Chicago Mental Health Services Research Program (MHSRP)
www.psych.uic.edu/mhsrp/
Promotes recovery, self-determination and full community participation for people with psychiatric disabilities. People with psychiatric disabilities, as well as their friends, family, advocates and service providers, help design, implement and evaluate projects to enhance services and knowledge of psychiatric disabilities and mental health services.
National Alliance for Mental Illness of PA (NAMI PA)
http://namipa.nami.org/
Advocates for individuals who are experiencing mental illness, as well as for changes in the mental health system and legislation.
What a Difference a Friend Makes
www.whatadifference.samhsa.gov/
Provides tools for recovery, as well as information about mental illness and stories of support and recovery. Includes a forum where people can chat with others about mental health.
Resiliency and Recovery E-Learning Center
www.magellanhealth.com/training/
Provides a series of interactive educational trainings on recovery and resiliency, offered for continuing education credit.
Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America
http://store.samhsa.gov/product/SMA03-3831
Describes a strategy for transforming mental health care so that services and supports actively facilitate recovery and build resilience. This executive summary identifies six goals of this transformation and presents model programs to illustrate the goals in practice.

Resources

Emerging Best Practices in Mental Health Recovery, by Wilma Townsend, Daniel Harris, Laura Bell-Martin, Marc Cherna, Patricia Valentine, Revised February 2005. Allegheny County Department of Human Services & Ohio Department of Mental Health. Defines emerging best practices that service participants, providers and supporters can use top facilitate the recovery process, using a stages of change model.

Recovery from Serious Mental Illness, Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Useful, one page overview of recovery and recovery resources.

Inside/Outside, Building a Meaningful Life After the Hospital (Film by Patricia Deegan). The stories of eight people with lengthy histories of institutionalization, and their transition into the community. Available at no charge at www.samhsa.gov.

Voices of Hope, Stories of Recovery (film), Joan King, $29.95. Three stories of people moving forward with their lives, order from www.cascadiapublishinghouse.com

The Creating Wellness Series (films), Mary Ellen Copeland, $39.95 per tape (three tapes in series). Series includes: Key Concepts for Mental Health, Developing a Wellness Recovery Action Plan, and The Wellness Toolbox. Available through www.mentalhealthrecovery.com/shop/index.php

Recovering Your Mental Health Series Series of seven well-written and presented information booklets. Individual booklets include: "Recovering Your Mental Health: A Self-Help Guide", "Making and Keeping Friends", "Building Self-Esteem, "Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery", "Dealing with the Effects of Trauma", "Speaking Out for Yourself", Developing a Recovery and Wellness Lifestyle".

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