Mental Health Agencies and Services

To be an effective advocate or self-advocate, one needs to make the best use possible of available tools and support resources. The following are just a handful of suggestions for places to turn for information during one's own advocacy efforts..

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA-pronounced sam-sah) website covers a tremendous range of consumer topics including the following: Mental Health System Transformation, Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders, Substance Abuse Prevention and Mental Health Promotion, Substance Abuse Treatment Services, Disaster Readiness and Response, Homelessness Services, Children and Family Services, Criminal and Juvenile Justice Services, Seclusion and Restraint, Older Adults Services.

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)

The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is charged with leading the national system that delivers mental health services. This child site of the main SAMHSA website provides many useful program and activities links related to their purpose.

National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP)

The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP) is currently trying to set up a national game plan for preventing suicide and also for setting up guidelines and/or responsible hurdles for those who provide mental health care services. In conjunction over at the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention Indicators (NSSPI) website, NSSP project objectives are presented along with opportunities for you and I to give input as to how those objectives might best be achieved.

ACSO When one is grasping at straws or in other words is seeking some way to affect change, it almost couldn't get any better than this..

Advocacy Opportunity An opportunity to advocate from the comfort of your home, office, library, or anywhere else you can find Internet access. Read through the various objectives of the NSSPI and give constructive suggestions that will help them develop a plan to improve the state of mental health in America..

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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet..

·» Mark Twain «·