Advocacy Support and Resource Links
To be an effective advocate or self-advocate, one needs to make the best use possible of available tools and support resources. The following represents a rough overview, a Table of Contents of sorts, covering the topics currently presented for consideration during one's own advocacy efforts..
- Nursing Homes: First important references included are:
- Get Involved: Volunteer: Couple of simple suggestions about volunteering, getting involved with respect to disability advocacy..
- Disability Protection And Advocacy Organizations: Places to turn to when seeking assistance, advocacy, or information regarding issues on a more legal basis.
- Government Contacts: Ways to find and get in touch with elected officials, those who ultimately set the laws we live by.
- Government Resources: Will include suggested methods of tracking governmental action progress.
- Media Contacts: Possibilities for location of television, radio, cable network and other media resources..
- Government Resources: Will include suggested methods of tracking governmental action progress.
- Legislative Resources: Will include suggested methods of tracking ongoing legislature.
- National Grant Opportunities: Various mental health support grants. Can't do what really needs to be done without some kind of financial support. Will be updated periodically as time allows.
- Statistics: Statistics and databases befitting the intentions of this website.
- Addressing Stigma: In addition to educating every time we are able to advocate successfully, we are addressing the stigma that has for so long been associated with mental illnesses and disorders.
- Mental Health Agencies and Services: Links to national organizations providing information and mental health services. Many are government-supported website links.
- Mental Health Educational Resources: Online resources providing definitions and other handy information. Many are government-supported website links.
- Consumer/Survivor-Specific Resources: There are valuable resources out there now addressing mental health care consumers and psychiatric survivors.
- Employment And Psychiatric Disabilities: Individuals with mental illness, along with all other disabilities, have guaranteed employment rights under the ADA.
- Help In Times of Crisis and Distress: This one is here because one awesome way to advocate is to ensure that those in need of services will have those services available whenever and wherever they need them.
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