Annually, September 10 to October 7. Active Minds uses slightly different dates for Suicide Prevention Month, situating their campaign between two related events World Suicide Prevention Day and National Day Without Stigma.
The mission of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors is to bring healing, hope, and wholeness to individuals, families, and communities by expanding and equipping spiritually grounded and psychologically informed care, counseling, and psychotherapy.
The AAPC website is intended to provide information for both association members and the public.
The American Psychiatric Foundation is the charitable and educational subsidiary of the American Psychiatric Association. The APF works to eliminate stigmas surrounding mental illness. Its division of APIRE is a leader in psychiatric research.
“ABHW is the national voice for companies that manage behavioral health and wellness services. ABHW member companies provide specialty services to treat mental health, substance use and other behaviors that impact health. ABHW supports effective federal, state and accrediting organization policies that ensure specialty behavioral health organizations (BHOs) can continue to increase quality, manage costs and promote wellness for the nearly 150 million people served by our members.”
The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation is committed to alleviating the suffering caused by mental illness by awarding grants that will lead to advances and breakthroughs in scientific research.
resources available on: Stress, Trauma, Depression, Anxiety -- Prevention, Reilience, & Recovery; ADD & ADHD; Child Development and Parenting; and Neuroscience and the Brain
Based at Dartmouth University
“Focused on the development, evaluation and dissemination of technology-based therapeutic tools targeting substance use and co-occurring behavioral health issues.”
While much of the information on this page concerns to the Church of England's position on UK mental health policy, the page also includes useful parish resources related to spirituality and mental health.
Imagine the "Choose Your own Adventure" book series and DSM-IV had a love child.
"…an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment. This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the depths of what it can do to people."
The committee's mission is to "…seek to live out the reconciling love of Jesus by offering educational programs and networking resources so that the Church may be a welcoming sanctuary for people living with mental illness." Their work includes helping congregations in the Diocese of Virginia find ways to include those affected by mental illness in the life of the Church, connecting parishes with local and regional volunteer opportunities, providing educational resources and events in order to eliminate the stigma of mental illness.
The Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry is a network of scholars and clinicians within the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, devoted to promoting research, training and consultation in social and cultural psychiatry.
Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the organization describes itself as "an inter-faith coalition of faith communities dedicated to increasing understanding of mental illness through Education, Advocacy, and Support."
Jisc has been supporting seven research projects in learning analytics at UK universities over the past year. These have been in the areas of curriculum analytics, mental health and wellbeing and the evaluation of institutional learning analytics projects.Join us to hear the projects present their interesting findings.
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A ministry of outreach and care for people with mental illness, especially those who live on the streets. Training programs for clergy and laity to develop mental health ministry within faith congregations.
Based in Seattle, Washington
The mission of Mental Health Ministries is to provide educational resources to help erase the stigma of mental illness in our faith communities and help congregations become caring congregations for persons living with a mental illness and their families.
… a project of Massachusetts General Hospital, … to find the best treatments for depression and bipolar disorder. For the first time, patients, families, doctors, and researchers are working together as equal partners to change the direction of mood disorder research.
“The US House of Representatives proclaimed July as this special month in 2008, aiming to improve access to mental health treatment and services through increased public awareness.”
The largest scientific organization in the world dedicated to research focused on the understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of mental health.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the largest scientific organization in the world dedicated to research focused on the understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of mental health.