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The Mental Health Activist
This Washington State advocacy site gives daily updated mental health law information, alerts, reports, and advice for health care and patient advocates and volunteers.
http://www.mhactivist.com

Mental Health Patient Rights
A weekly newsletter. Resources about managed care, patient rights, patient confidentiality, and parity for mental health care. A Practitioners' page, requires a subscription (free) .
http://athealth.com/Practitioner/Newsletter/FPN_3_11.html

The National Empowerment Center
The mission of the National Empowerment Center, Inc. is to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been diagnosed with mental illness.
http://www.power2u.org

Center for the Study of Mental Health Policies and Services
(CSMHPS). The Center was established in 1996 to increase the development of high-quality social work research in an active program of public mental health research. It promotes research for children and adults with major mental illness at both the systems and intervention level with particular emphasis on consumer centered services.
http://www.csmhps.pdx.edu/

The Institute of Mental Health Law
United Kingdom organization, specialising in all aspects of the Mental Health Act 1983 and allied legislation.
http://www.imhl.com

Coalition for Persons Disabled by Mental Illness
North Carolina coalition of mental health professionals, consumers, families and advocates organized to pursue lobbying and mental health reform initiatives.
http://www.cpdmi.org

National Technical Assistance Center
NTAC provides on-site technical assistance to individual states and regions on all issues of importance to mental health planning, service delivery, and evaluation.
http://www.nasmhpd.org/ntac/