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      Popular! 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: 1946 - 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: 140 - 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: 151 - 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: 270 - 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: 645 - 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: 437 - Rate This | Details
      Let's FACE this
      Let’s Face This – Confront the Stigma of Mental Illness is an innovative grassroots web campaign designed to raise much-needed funds and awareness in support of mental health treatment and research. It is being launched in conjunction with Mental Illness Awareness Week, taking place from October 5 – 11.
      Preview Website - 8-Oct-2008 - Hits: 54 - 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: 201 - 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: 272 - 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: 138 - Rate This | Details
      Stamp Out Stigma Top Rated
      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: 239 - 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.
      Preview Website - 28-Oct-2005 - Hits: 69 - Rate This | Details
      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: 118 - Rate This | Details
      The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
      The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) association representing 1,300 organizations providing treatment and rehabilitation to help people recover from mental illnesses and addiction disorders. National Council members serve nearly six million adults, children, and families in communities across America. We offer a vital safety net to some of the poorest and most vulnerable in our society — Medicaid beneficiaries, the uninsured, the destitute and homeless, children in foster care, older adults, those with HIV/AIDS, veterans, and those in our criminal and juvenile justice systems. The people our members treat live with their families or alone; some are in hospitals, jails, or juvenile detention facilities and others are in residential programs, foster care, or group homes. The National Council is proud of our member organizations. Our job is to help members do their jobs. We advocate for policies that ensure that people who are ill can access services. And we offer state-of-the-science education and practice improvement resources so that services are efficient and effective.
      Preview Website - 6-Aug-2008 - Hits: 71 - 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: 123 - Rate This | Details


     
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