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Categories:
۰ Technical Assistance Centers
۰ Mental Health Services
۰ Information Technology/Social Media
۰ Disability Rights
۰ Electroconvulsive Therapy
۰ Recovery/Empowerment
۰ Tobacco Cessation and Mental Health
۰ Trauma Recovery
۰ Tardive Dyskinesia
۰ Alternative/Spiritual Treatment Methods
۰ Legal Resources
۰ Media
۰ History of Mental Health Consumer/Survivors
۰ Research

Peerlink Technical Assistance Center, a project of MHA of Oregon, www.peerlink.us
Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center - The Family Cafe, www.CAFETACenter.net/
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

NEC's Information Technology Page
Beth Kanter's Blog: How Networked Nonprofits are Using Social Media to Power Change - www.bethkanter.org
The Future of Mental Health Social Media, by Corinna West - http://corinnawest.com/the-future-of-mental-health-social-media

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/2000/pdf/privileges.pdf
National Research and Training Center of the National Institute on Disability and Research - www.pshch.uic.edu/uicnrtc
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ECT - www.ect.org and www.banshock.org
EleMental - www.elemental.org.uk
The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care - www.mentalhealthexcellence.org
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.icspponline.org
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/cpr
Shared Decision Making in Mental Health Webinar: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/consumersurvivor/shared.asp
Small Business and Self Employment for People with Disabilities www.dol.gov/odep/programs/promotin.htm
The Recovery Group - www.therecoverygrouponline.com
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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.htm

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 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

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

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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