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These websites do not necessarily represent the opinions of the National Empowerment Center.

Technical Assistance Centers

• National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center - www.ncstac.org
• National Empowerment Center TAC - www.power2u.org
• National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse - www.mhselfhelp.org
• STAR Center (Support, Technical Assistance and Resources) www.consumerstar.org

Mental Health Services

• Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation - www.bu.edu/sarpsych
• The Center for Mental Health Services - www.samhsa.gov/centers/cmhs/cmhs.html
• Health6.com - Comprehensive Health Directory www.health6.com
• National Center for Trauma Informed Care - http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/nctic
• National Mental Health Association - www.nmha.org
• SAMHSA/Knowledge Exchange Network -www.mentalhealth.org
• Evaluation Center at the Human Services Research Institute www.tecathsri.org
• Volunteers in Psychotherapy - www.ctvip.org

Disability Rights

• Americans With Disabilities Act - www.Bazelon.org/ada.html and www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/publicat.htm
• Disability Rights Activist - www.disrights.org
• Job Accommodation Network - http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu
• National Council on Disability - "From privileges to rights" -www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/privileges.html
• National Research and Training Center of the National Institute on Disability and Research - www.pshch.uic.edu/uicnrtc

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

• Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock Treatment by Linda Andre (Rutgers University Press, 2009)

Linda Andre's book is both a powerful memoir of her own experience as an ECT "patient" and a documented account of the underbelly of the 'shock industry.' It raises profound questions about ECT that both psychiatry and the National Institute of Mental Health--if they want to be honest with the American public--desperately need to address. -- Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill [Book Review] [Purchase Doctors of Deception]

• Resources compiled by Leonard Roy Frank, leading authority on electroshock:
  • The Electroshock Quotationary (June 2006) (PDF, 4.44MB, 155 Pages)
  • From the Files of Leonard Roy Frank
     
• PsychRights' Electroshock Resources

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Recovery/Empowerment

• ECT - www.ect.org and www.banshock.org
• EleMental - www.elemental.org.uk
• Freedom Center - www.freedom-center.org
• Help and Healing from Violence - www.witnessjustice.org
• The Icarus Project - www.theicarusproject.net
• Independent Living Centers - www.ilusa.com/links/ilcenters.htm
• International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology - www.breggin.com
• Intervoice - www.intervoiceonline.org
• Madness - www.peoplewho.org
• Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures, Volume II
• Mental Health Recovery - www.mhrecovery.com
• MIND - www.mind.org.uk
• MindFreedom International - www.mindfreedom.org
• National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse - www.mhselfhelp.org
• P.A.C.E. Support Group - www.pacesupportgroup.vpweb.com 
• Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal - www.bu.edu/prj/link
• Small Business and Self Employment for People with Disabilities www.dol.gov/odep/programs/promotin.htm

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Tobacco Cessation and Mental Health

• Online resources for quitting smoking: www.smokefree.gov
• Resources for quitting smoking for people with mental health and substance abuse issues http://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/MH_Resources.html

Trauma Recovery

• Mental Health Peers - www.mentalhealthpeers.com
• The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study - www.acestudy.org
• NCTIC: National Center for Trauma-Informed Care
  www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/nctic
• Healing Self-Injury blog - http://healingselfinjury.org
• The Shofar Coalition - www.shofarcoalition.org
• Western Massachusetts Training Consortium - www.wmtcinfo.org

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Tardive Dyskinesia

• Tardive Dyskinesia Center - www.tardivedyskinesia.com
• We Move - www.wemove.org/td
  • We Move has an online discussion board dedicated to TD and other movement disorders that we can encourage people to participate in if they have Internet access.
• NEC site - www.power2u.org/articles/selfhelp/tardive.html
• PsychRights - http://psychrights.org
• Tardive Dyskinesia Lawsuit Claims -  http://tardivedyskinesia-lawyer.com
• Mental Health America (MHA) - Factsheet: Tardive Dyskinesia  
• Dystonia-Support.org - www.dystonia-support.org

Alternative/Spiritual Treatment Methods

• The Center for Creative Intelligence: www.creativeintelligence.org
• Anti-Shock Neurologist John Friedberg, M.D. - www.idiom.com/~drjohn
• True Hope - www.truehope.com
• Soul Wisdom - www.soulwisdom.net
• Alternative Mental Health - www.alternativementalhealth.com
• Perelandra (flower essences) - www.perelandra-ltd.com

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Legal Resources

• Protection and Advocacy for Legal Help in each state: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/p&a
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law - www.Bazelon.org
• Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter - www.abanet.org/disability/reporter/home.html
• National Association for Rights, Protection & Advocacy - www.narpa.org
• Advance Psychiatric Directives from Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  www.bazelon.org/issues/advancedirectives
• National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives - www.nrc-pad.org
• Protection & Advocacy Agencies - www.protectionandadvocacy.com
• PsychRights - www.psychrights.org

Media

• The Mad Market - www.mindfreedom.org/mad-market
• Mouth Magazine - www.mouthmag.org

History of Mental Health Consumer/Survivors

• Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto - www.psychiatricsurvivorarchives.com
• The Suitcase Exhibit - www.suitcaseexhibit.org
• The Opal Project - www.theopalproject.org/id9.html
• Bibliography of First Person Accounts of Madness - www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/assets/Academics/Hornstein_Bibliography.pdf
• Cemetery Restoration Projects - www.power2u.org/articles/history-project/how.html
• Danvers State Memorial Committee to Restore Hospital Cemetery www.dsmc.info
• Eastern State Hospital Kentucky Cemetery Restoration www.kykinfolk.com/esh
• In Our Own Voice: African American Stories of Oppression, Survival, and Recovery in Mental Health Systems by Vanessa Jackson
  http://www.power2u.org/downloads/InOurOwnVoiceVanessaJackson.pdf
• Wild Indians: Native Perspectives on the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians by Pemina Yellow Bird
  http://www.power2u.org/downloads/NativePerspectivesPeminaYellowBird.pdf

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