The Consumer Organization & Networking Technical
Assistance Center (CONTAC) is a resource center for consumers and
consumer–run organizations across the United States. Available services
and products uk replica watches include informational materials; on-site training and
skill–building curricula; electronic and other communication capabilities;
networking and customized activities promoting self–help, recovery,
leadership, business management, and empowerment.
The Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundationsm
(CABF) is a parent–led, not–for–profit, Web–based
membership organization of breitling replica watches families raising children diagnosed with, or at risk
for, early–onset bipolar disorder.
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), is the leading patient-directed national organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses. The organization fosters an environment of understanding about the impact and management of these life-threatening illnesses by providing up-to-date, scientifically-based tools and information written in uk replica watches language the general public can understand. DBSA supports research to promote more timely diagnosis, develop more effective and tolerable treatments and discover a cure. The organization works to ensure that people living with mood disorders are treated equitably.
The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia
and Depression (NARSAD) is the largest donor–supported
organization in the world devoted exclusively to funding scientific research on
psychiatric brain disorders. NARSAD is a private, not–for–profit
public charity 501(c)(3) organized for the purpose of raising and
distributing funds for scientific research into the causes, cures, treatments
and prevention of severe psychiatric brain disorders, such as schizophrenia and
depression.
The Mental Health Assocation (MHA) is the
country's oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of
mental health and mental illness. With more than 340 affiliates nationwide,
NMHA works to improve the mental health of all Americans, especially the 54
million people with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research and
service.
The National Mental Health Association's National
Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center (NCSTAC) was established
in 1998 by a grant from the Center for Mental Health Services. Its purpose is
to strengthen those organizations supporting mental health consumers, survivors
and ex–patients by providing technical assistance in the forms of
research, informational materials, and financial aid.
The National Empowerment Center is a
consumer/survivor/expatient–run organization whose members live a personal
journey of recovery and empowerment, and is a place for those diagnosed with
mental illness to turn to in order to receive the information they might need
in order to regain control over their lives and the resources that affect their
lives.
The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help
Clearinghouse is a consumer–run national technical assistance
center serving the mental health consumer movement which helps connect
individuals to self–help and advocacy resources, and offers expertise to
self–help groups and other peer–run services for mental health
consumers.
The Stanley Medical Research Institute is a nonprofit organization supporting research on the causes of, and treatments for, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Since it began in 1989, SMRI has supported more than $300 million in research in over 30 countries around the world. It is the largest nongovernmental source of funds for research on these diseases in the United States.
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