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BPD World ^{Top Rated}
BPD World is a site that is committed to raising awareness and reducing the stigma of mental health, but focusing on borderline personality disorder (BPD). They provide information, advice and support on borderline personality disorder.
Preview Website - 7-Sep-2004 - Hits: 1161 - Rate This | Details

Breaking the Silence: Lesson Plans
Lesson plans, games, and posters created to break the silence and fight stigma of mental illness in our schools.
Preview Website - 29-Oct-2005 - Hits: 288 - Rate This | Details

Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario
A primary source of information about mental health, mental illness, and policy in Ontario. Website covers stigma and discrimination, homelessness, and workplace issues. The Reading Room includes publications, book reviews, and fact sheets.
Preview Website - 29-Oct-2005 - Hits: 226 - Rate This | Details

Carter Center's Mental Health Program
The document focuses on mental health policy issues with four strategic goals: (1) reduce stigma and discrimination against people with mental illnesses; (2) achieve equity for mental health care comparable to other health care; (3) advance promotion, prevention, and early intervention services for children and their families; (4) increase public awareness worldwide about mental health and mental illness and to stimulate local actions to address those issues.
Preview Website - 28-Oct-2005 - Hits: 72 - Rate This | Details

Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research
The Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research (CCSR) is dedicated towards understanding the phenomenon of stigma, developing and testing models that explain why it occurs, and evaluating strategies that help to diminish its effects.
Preview Website - 28-Oct-2005 - Hits: 63 - Rate This | Details

Coalition on the Anti-Stigmas of Mental Illness in the CNMI (CAMI-CNMI)
CAMI-CNMI started because of the need to eliminate erroneous beliefs and fears about mental illness in the world, especially here in the Northern Mariana Islands. Our hope is that together, as we get volunteers in the community involved in the lives of our mental health consumers and join together in shared activities that we will wipe out these terrible stigmas of mental illness. CAMI-CNMI is about getting people in the CNMI community (whether you're 7 years old or 70 years old) to lend a "real helping hand."
Preview Website - 27-Jan-2007 - Hits: 63 - Rate This | Details

ColoradoPsycho.com
Explores the world of mental health, mental illness, combating stigma, and consumer advocacy. Inclues a Weblog, "Over the Edge," to cover news, opinions, and assorted material not directly related to human psychology.
Preview Website - 20-Dec-2003 - Hits: 213 - Rate This | Details

Dangers of Diagnosis
It's a dangerous thing to throw around labels and diagnoses as though they have little meaning. This article examines those dangers and describes better ways to talk about these labels to maintain their informative value while losing their stigma.
Preview Website - 11-Feb-2004 - Hits: 534 - Rate This | Details

Face the Issue
Animation library raises awareness of common emotional and physical issues faced by young adults.
Preview Website - 18-Aug-2006 - Hits: 46 - Rate This | Details

Families for Depression Awareness ^{Top Rated}
This organization helps people in caregiver roles and people with depressive disorders understand the conditions, reduce stigma, and share issues. The site allows folks order free brochures, read family profiles, access resources, and sign up for free email alerts.
Preview Website - 18-Feb-2004 - Hits: 377 - Rate This | Details

Living in Stigma ^{Top Rated}
Hoping education will end mental illness stigma. Many forms of mental illness take their shape in Depression, Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, just to name a few. A major note is that mental illness is neither one’s fault nor a character flaw, however, many live in a society laced with stigma.
Preview Website - 8-Oct-2007 - Hits: 65 - Rate This | Details

No Stigma
National Mental Health Awareness Campaign "No Stigma" is a nationwide public education campaign dedicated to combating the stigma associated with mental illness and the discrimination experienced by Americans living with mental illness.
Preview Website - 28-Oct-2005 - Hits: 155 - Rate This | Details

Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma
SAMHSA's Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma (ADS Center) helps people design, implement, and operate programs that reduce discrimination and stigma associated with mental illnesses. With the most up-to-date research and information, the ADS Center helps individuals, organizations and governments counter such discrimination and stigma in the community, workplace, and media. Each year, the SAMHSA ADS Center conducts approximately six training teleconferences that are free of charge and open to the general public.
Preview Website - 28-Oct-2005 - Hits: 79 - Rate This | Details

SANE Australia - the mental health charity
SANE Australia's award-winning website on mental illness and related topics -- with downloadable factsheets, details of publications, writings and artworks by people with a mental illness, and much more.
Preview Website - 7-May-2000 - Hits: 195 - Rate This | Details

Stamp Out Stigma
A community advocacy and educational outreach program dedicated to eradicating the stigma associated with mental illness. Stamp Out Stigma is unique in its anti-stigma approach, by creating a forum in which individuals with mental illness share their personal experiences with the community at large.
Preview Website - 29-Oct-2005 - Hits: 154 - Rate This | Details

Stigma Watch
The National Mental Health Association’s Stigma Watch program tracks news and entertainment coverage of mental health issues for fairness and accuracy to correct and prevent stigmatizing advertising, television and radio programming, and print features.
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Stigmabusters: Fight Stigma
NAMI StigmaBusters is a group of dedicated advocates across the country and around the world who seek to fight the inaccurate, hurtful representations of mental illness found in TV, film, print, or other media.
Preview Website - 28-Oct-2005 - Hits: 67 - Rate This | Details

Stigmatization of Borderline Personality Disorder
Medicalization of mental disorders online (22 Jul 96)
Preview Website - 5-Apr-2000 - Hits: 857 - Rate This | Details

Stop Calling Us Mentally Ill
Combating the stigma of mental disorders, this organization's mission hopes to eliminate the name "mental illness" from our culture.
Preview Website - 29-Oct-2005 - Hits: 103 - Rate This | Details

The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) fights the stigma and the disease of alcoholism and other drug addictions.
Preview Website - 6-Sep-2006 - Hits: 57 - Rate This | Details

The Stigma of CineMania ^{Top Rated}
Articles on stigma in the media.
Preview Website - 29-Oct-2005 - Hits: 53 - Rate This | Details

Transcultural Mental Health Centre
A very large resource page with a wealth of mental health information translated into many different languages. Includes the following languages: Arabic, Bosnian, Cantonese, Croatian, English, Filipino, Greek, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Maltese, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. This resource covers topics such as what is mental health, stigma and anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. It also offers a parent's guide to healthy kids as well as a family help kit. A rich, beneficial resource.
Preview Website - 30-Nov-2004 - Hits: 93 - Rate This | Details

Will I Go Crazy?
Any Dream Will Do is a not-for-profit corporation combating the prejudice against mental illness through educational articles, stories, and materials.
Preview Website - 28-Oct-2005 - Hits: 62 - Rate This | Details