- Community Resilience Project of Northern Virginia
The Community Resilience Project of Northern Virginia is a FEMA-funded project that provides crisis counseling to people in northern Virginia who were impacted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It provides outreach services in the city of Alexandria and the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudoun and is intended to help individuals return to their pre-disaster levels of functioning.
- Comprehensive Advocacy, Inc. - Idaho
This organization is Idaho's State Protection Agency. It assists people with disabilities to protect, promote and advance their legal and human rights, through quality legal, individual, and system advocacy.
- Florida Council for Community Mental Health (FCCMH)
FCCMH is a statewide association of about 60 community-based mental health and substance abuse agencies. The Council was originally formed in 1958 as an association of mental health clinic directors. Its role broadened in the 1960s and 1970s, as the focus of treatment shifted from state hospitals to communities. The Council's membership has expanded in recent years to include a number of agencies that specialize in substance abuse services and in children's services. Collectively, these agencies serve more than 200,000 Floridians a year.
- Louisiana Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
Louisiana Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health is a parent-run organization focused on the needs of children and youth with emotional, behavioral or mental disorders and their families.
- Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
The mission of the Department of Mental Health is to improve the quality of life for adults with serious and persistent mental illness and children with serious mental illness or severe emotional disturbance. This is accomplished by ensuring access to an integrated network of effective, efficient and culturally competent mental health services that promotes consumer rights, responsibilities, rehabilitation, and recovery.
- Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program
The Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program develops standards for colleting mental health information or data—how to collect it, what needs to be collected, where to find what others have collected, how to understand what you find, how to report it so other people can understand it, and how to use it to make decisions.
- Missouri Mental Health Counselors Association
MMHCA is a chapter of the American Mental Health Counseling Association and is a division of the American Counseling Association of Missouri. They are a professional organization made up of and representing Licensed Professional Counselors working in mental health services in Missouri. They provide support to their members and advocate for the continual improvement of the standards which guide the counseling profession.
- NAMI Oregon
This web site provides a list of mental health resources for residents of Oregon, a directory of conferences, contact information for each State office of NAMI, and links to related web sites.
- NASMHPD Research Institute, Inc.
The NASMHPD Research Institute, Inc. is a nonprofit research corporation established to study issues in the delivery of mental health services supported by State mental health agencies.
- National Association of County Behavioral Health Directors
This association is dedicated to promoting and improving behavioral health services on a county and local level. The nonprofit organization’s membership is composed of county and local health officials and their State associations.
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors
The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs of the Nation's Public Mental Health System through policy development, information dissemination, and technical assistance.
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors -- Membership Roster
The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors -- Membership Roster is an online directory of directors & commissioners of the 55 state & territorial government mental health programs.
- National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning
The National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning provides onsite technical assistance to individual States and regions on issues of mental health planning, service delivery, and evaluation. It is supported by the Federal government's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS).
- New York State Office of Mental Health
In response to the intense need for crisis services stemming from the World Trade Center disaster, the New York State Office of Mental Health has established Project Liberty, a coordinated outreach and Crisis Counseling Program (CCP) funded by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) and the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS).
- Ohio's Suicide Prevention Program
Ohio's Suicide Prevention Plan is the next step in saving lives and reducing suicidal behaviors by developing a comprehensive strategy in response to a very complex set of issues.
- Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tennessee, Inc.
Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tennessee, Inc. is made up of centers in Tennessee that provide pastoral counseling treatment services for a variety of disorders, most with fees based on ability to pay.
- State Health Facts Online by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The Foundation disseminates information about health care issues and policies for health care professionals, policy makers, and the general public. State Health Facts online provides health care demographics on a state level.
- State Partnership Initiative
Under a March, 1998 Executive Order the President created the National Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities. The first initiative under this executive order was establishment of the State Partnership Systems Change Initiative (SPI). The purpose of SPI is to support project States in the development of innovative effective service delivery systems, which increase employment of individuals with disabilities. This web site provides more information.
- Staunton Farm Foundation
The goal of the foundation is to award grants to non-profit organizations for mental health treatment, care and support through programming that purposes to restore individuals to their optimal functioning and productivity in society. The Staunton Farm Foundation's funding is limited to the ten-county region of southwestern Pennsylvania, which includes Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Washington and Westmoreland counties.
- The National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors
The National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors is a private, not-for-profit educational, scientific, and informational organization whose purpose is to foster and support the development of effective alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and treatment programs, throughout every State.
- Treatment Improvement Exchange
The Treatment Improvement Exchange is a program sponsored by the Division of State and Community Assistance of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to provide information exchange between CSAT staff and State and local alcohol and substance abuse agencies.
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
This site provides a locator service providing quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography for each state. It includes Census 2000 data.
- Wisconsin Attachment Resource Network
A non-profit corporation created to help educate the public about child attachment and Reactive Attachment Disorder, provide emotional support for families suffering with RAD, and aid in finding local RAD resources and creating new resources.
The information above was taken, in part, from material provided by SAMHSA.
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