NCSTAC: Links
Mental Health Links
Center for Mental
Health Services
The U.S. Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is a division of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) whose mission is to
lead federal efforts to treat mental illnesses by promoting mental health and
by preventing the development or worsening of mental illness when possible.
Mental Health America
Mental Health America is dedicated to promoting mental health,
preventing mental disorders and achieving victory over mental illnesses through
advocacy, education, research and service.
Informacion en espaņol
AlSofa.org y healthfinder proveen
informacion sobre asuntos de salud mental para personas con problemas de
salud mental y sus familias. The Al Sofa site provides information on mental
health issues to consumers and family members in Spanish and in English.
Healthfinder provides information in Spanish.
Technical Assistance Center Links
Consumer Organization & Networking Technical
Assistance Center
A national technical assistance center, Contac serves as a resource center for
consumers/survivors/expatients and consumer-run organizations across the United
States, promoting self-help, recovery and empowerment. Contac was developed utilizing
research on ideal consumer self-help programs, successful consumer-run programs,
community support service about service delivery, descriptions of mature mental
health systems, and management and leadership skills.
DBSA Peer-to-Peer Resource
Center
The Peer-to-Peer Resource Center operates under a National Consumer/ Consumer
Supporter Self-Help Technical Assistance Center grant to DBSA from the U. S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration/Center for Mental Health Services. The Center serves people living
with all kinds of mental illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety
disorders, schizophrenia, and other illnesses. The center’s goal is to
put in place a national system to train and certify peer specialists who work
with other mental health consumers to promote outcomes of self-directed recovery,
independence, and community integration. For more information, visit www.peersupport.org.
Freedom Self-Advocacy Curriculum
NMHA, the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, and the
National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems have collaborated in
creating the Freedom Self-Advocacy Curriculum. This series of 3 workshops on
the knowledge, skills, and attitudes behind self-advocacy will prepare you
to teach others how to advocate for themselves with lessons on such topics
as finding a new therapist and going back to work.
National Empowerment Center
The mission of the National Empowerment Center Inc. (NEC) is to carry a message
of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been labeled
with mental illness. NEC is an independent group including survivors of mental
institutions, advocates, civil rights activists, mental health workers, and
lawyers. It exposes abuse and promotes alternatives to the mental health system.
National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help
Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse is a consumer-run national technical assistance center established
in 1986 and funded by a grant from the Federal Center for Mental Health Services.
We are committed to helping mental health consumers improve their lives through
self-help and advocacy. Specifically, we help consumers plan, provide, and evaluate
mental health and community support services.
National Technical Assistance Center
(NTAC) for State Mental Health Planning
The National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning (NTAC)
is supported under a cooperative agreement between the National Association of
State Mental Health Program Directors and the Center for Mental Health Services,
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
Support Technical
Assistance Resource Center provides support, technical assistance, and
resources to help improve and increase the capacity of consumer operated
programs to meet the needs of persons living with mental illnesses from diverse
communities. Self-help is recognized as a major element of recovery, and
peer provided services and supports are an important source of self-help
and mutual support opportunities.
This web site is in the process of being reviewed and updated with essential input from mental health consumers. To give your feedback, please email consumerta@nmha.org with your comments, needs, thoughts, and suggestions. Please give your contact information if you would like to speak personally about the web site, since reply follow-up will be conducted. Thank you!