Here is a template for a letter to help you request funding to attend Alternatives 2014. We also urge you to check out the Funding Suggestions page on the Alternatives 2014 website, which is available by clicking here. In addition, the deadline to apply for a SAMHSA scholarship to attend the conference is available by clicking here.
Peer respites for mental health consumers prevent hospitalizations
Social Media Resources from the National Council of Nonprofits
List of resources for nonprofits looking to start and grow social media campaigns.
Social Media for Nonprofits
"Social Media for Nonprofits is the world’s only conference series dedicated to social media for social good and to date has earned a 92% approval rating from over 2,500 nonprofit leaders across the USA. Instead of abstract concepts and theory, our focus is on sharing practical tips and tools for fundraising, marketing, and advocacy with nonprofit decision-makers."
NEC: Information Technology
The National Empowerment Center has a great listing of resources for learning more about social media.
NEC: Social Networking and Social Media
A Guide for People with Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues and Recovery by the National Empowerment Center
National Estimates for Mental Health Mutual Support Groups, Self-Help Organizations, and Consumer-Operated Services
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, Vol. 33, No. 1, January 2006 (2005)
Emotional CPR Is Recommended for LA County DMH
By Daniel B. Fisher, MD, PhD and S. Michael Szczerbaty, M.A., MHSC
What is Emotional CPR (eCPR)? The approach is said to be holistic, hopeful, and empowering. It is a heart-to-heart experience between provider and consumer. It is embedded in a hopeful belief that by using interior experience, empathy, compassion and knowledge, anyone can help another person recover from an emotional crisis. Rather than labeling someone with another 'mental health problem,’ the approach assumes that the person is coping with an experience beyond their current ability to effectively manage their emotional crises. The sooner an eCPR practitioner begins to support a person in their emotional crisis, the more likely it is that the person will make a full and timely return to a life that has meaning and purpose.
http://www.peersnet.org/blog/2014-05/emotional-cpr-recommended-la-county-dmh
Helping People Connect to the Religious Congregations and Spiritual Groups of Their Choice: The Role of Peer Specialists
A monograph from the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
LiveThroughThis.org
"Live Through This is a collection of portraits and stories of suicide attempt survivors, as told by those survivors."
Changing Knowledge and Attitudes with a Middle School Mental Health Education Curriculum
This research tested the effectiveness of a widely used mental health education curriculum in changing knowledge and attitudes about mental illness.
Knowledge and Attitudes About Mental Illness: A Survey of Middle School Students
Despite the many studies of public attitudes toward mental illnesses, relatively few have examined the views of the youngest generation of citizens. This study was intended to increase understanding of youths' views of mental illness by developing and administering measures of knowledge and attitudes of middle school students toward mental illnesses.
http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=1103905
Involuntary Outpatient Commitment: Myths and Facts
Fact sheet from the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery
http://www.ncmhr.org/downloads/NCMHR-Fact-Sheet-on-Involuntary-Outpatient-Commitment-4.3.14.pdf
Complementary & Alternative Medicine for Mental Health Conditions
"The Complementary & Alternative Medicine for Mental Health Conditions program compiles evaluations of the CAM treatments most studied, recommended and used for mental health conditions, based on the ten principal sources. CAM encompasses a broad range of non-medical substances used for treatment or prevention, from yoga to SAM-e to fish oil."
TRANSITIONS: From an Illness/Maintenance Model to a Wellness/Recovery Model
This presentation was delivered at Temple University on March 26, 2014. It covers how the consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement has helped shift the mental health paradigm from an illness/maintenance model to a wellness/recovery model.
Lived Experience Research Network
"The Lived Experience Research Network (LERN) aims to advance inclusion and social justice issues impacting service users/survivors. LERN also hopes to narrow the gap between advocacy and research."
National Reentry Resource Center
Sponsored by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, The National Reentry Resource Center provides education, training, and technical assistance to states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, non-profit organizations, and corrections institutions working on prisoner reentry.
http://csgjusticecenter.org/nrrc/
Offices of Consumer Affairs
PPT: Making Your Voice Heard: Communicating Your Message Through the Media
ADDitude Magazine
A quarterly print publication with a website that offers practical advice, searchable archives of past issues, discussion forums, blogs, and expert Q & A’s.