Mental Health

University of Central England- Mental Health Page

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http://www.hcc.uce.ac.uk/cpsu/Packs/MH/MHPack.htm

Rethink Mental Illness

"Working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, to recover a better quality of life
Rethink is the new operating name for the National Schizophrenia Fellowship."

htttp://www.rethink.org/

MIND

"Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales."

http://www.mind.org.uk/

The Mental Health Foundation

"The Mental Health Foundation is the leading UK charity working in mental health and learning disabilities."

http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/

UKAN (United Kingdom Advocacy Network)

"UKAN came into being as a result of a 1990 conference organised by the Nottingham Patients’ Council Support Group and the Nottingham Advocacy Group. The aim of the conference was to explore the possibility of establishing an independent national body to represent and support patients’ councils, advocacy projects and user forums involved in planning and monitoring mental health services. The idea of a National Advocacy Network was inspired by the work of patients’ council support groups, which, in turn, were inspired by the Dutch model. In Holland every hospital must, by law, have a patients’ council. The body which coordinates these councils and the main consumer organisation, Clientenbond, are both government-funded."

http://www.mhca.com.au/cdp/k&a1a.htm

The Community Development Project

"The CDP is a national project, funded in two phases by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. The aim of the CDP is to put in place strategies and resources that will enable consumers and carers to participate more actively through the development of community advocacy skills. During the first phase of the project The Kit – a guide to the advocacy we choose to do was developed. The second phase of the CDP has recently been contracted to the Mental Health Council of Australia (MHCA)."

http://www.mhca.com.au/cdp/index.htm