CØNSUMER-TYPE LINKS
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Updated August 2002           <<< back to an aussie cønsumer newsletter           click for Google search engine

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Mount Isa Consumer Advisory Group i.e. CAG

a new & interesting site ~ Geelong Mental Health Consumers Union

recovery from schizo. - ? you may need to search for this site

home pages of Aussie cønsumers .. Allan Pinches ... Sara Clarke ... . hschirmer. Wonder where Linda Spithill 's page is  at present (hint)

The Australian Mental Health Cønsumer Network - AMHCN - aims to represent the many perspectives of MH cønsumers in Australia. The Network publishes an occasional newsletter.

OZMAD is an information dissemination and discussion E~mail list for people interested in the Australian MH cønsumer/survivor/ex-patient [CSX] movement. To sign up, see the OZMAD Web page. It has lost some of its consumer focus since inception.

Richmond Fellowship for schizos.- Victoria

FyrenIyce.. for bipolars, a support list for depression, bipolar disorder and related mental illness; their treatment, coping mechanisms and recovery techniques ...

The Northern Sydney Area Health Service MH cønsumer Network ... FIVE local cønsumer Networks make up the NSAHS cønsumer Network, plus the stand-alone psychiatric hospital, Gladesville Macquarie Hospital. .. e-mail Desley at dcasey@doh.health.nsw.gov.au

Mental Health Information for Rural and Remote Australia [ M H I R R A ] is an information service for people living in rural and remote parts of Australia.

The Public Health Association provides a forum for the exchange of information on public health. The PHA provides an unmoderated Mental Health E-mail Discussion List, mental-health-l ...aimed at public health professionals interested in MH.

the Wentworth MH Services' site in NSW includes an Australian links page

Building Blocks 110 in Caboolture, north of Brisbane is an innovative consumer-driven program, including peer support, as well as a fusion of community carer groups, a crisis phone line, and more .. several years since it has been updated

VMIAC or VMIAC2, ( the information is probably quite old) -   the Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council , Melbourne .. the peak consumer organisation for Victoria

The famous Lemon Tree learning project (now completed) aimed both to train service providers in 'how to do cønsumer participation', and to empower cønsumers / survivors, implemented by Merinda Epstein

Resources page of the RANZCP, the professional body for Aust. psychiatrists

Australian Psychiatric Disability Coalition (APDC).. "the national peak body representing non-government organisations [NGOs] in the MH and psych. disability sector in Australia ", includes small self-help groups. Sorry ... we do not know the current URL for the website!

A Consumer and Carer Forum site was set up by the Aust. & NZ MH Nurse's College , unfortunately the page seems to have vanished again.

Survivors Net - Australia provides access for survivors to the Net. Includes Internet chat & support .. still going strong.

The Therapeutic Alliance for Self-recovery from dissociative disorders (TASDD) , based in Tasmania, has a web page at http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/6649 .. info. and a great newsletter

VicServ [Melbourne] have a service-oriented links page which includes a range of providers, NGO's and more

useful links pages at the SANE site

Mental health Finder ..(Telehealth) info. about MH events in Australia

Narrative therapy is a new collaborative approach to psychotherapy - supports cønsumer theory. Plus more information here.

National MH consumers' self-help clearinghouse ... a consumer-run national technical assistance center in Philadelphia .. helps consumers plan, provide, and evaluate MH and community support services.

Programs and services : Information and Referral, Networking and Conference Planning, advocacy, organizing, issues of force and coercion, financing, alternatives, recovery,stigma, community support systems, research, forensic and multicultural issues. The Clearinghouse also publishes a newsletter. Also check CONTAC, a consumer tech. assistance thing.

are you thinking of killing yourself? read this page (by Metanoia), also the Keep Yourself Alive manual by AusEInet [ Acrobat PDF format ]

the Dep't of Psychology at Massey University , NZ has a virtual Faculty which is a very interesting page to browse - academic in style.

MadNation - you may be wondering where this consumer advocacy site is? Well, Vicki W has sort of retired.  Have a look at this archive of the interesting former site.

Go Mental .. a good links page

Paradigm http://www.orocta.org/paradigm.htm is a quarterly newsletter published by the Office of Consumer Technical Assistance in Oregon, USA

Check the National Empowerment Center in the USA - cønsumer resources, also the NARPA web newsletter

The Institute of Mental Health Law specialises in all aspects of the UK Mental Health Act [1983] and related British legislation.

www.mhsource.com/wb/thow9903.html .. Steven Thow's links page - information around depression and bipolar disorder including numerous search engines

(USA) Walkers in darkness page at http://www.walkers.org for bipolars

CINMHC .. the California Internetwork of MH Clients, includes a discussion list for MH issues in California [ MH politics in USA ]

Concerned Counseling is an interesting chat counseling and discussion page .. in the USA

the Psychiatry and MH Meta List - a useful source of American links .. also the NAMI links list

Psychiatry On Line .. a links page in the UK

the Alaskan MH cønsumer Web

The Macarthur Research Network on MH and the Law aims to "to build the empirical foundation for the next generation of MH laws " ..

Cønsumer/ Survivor Information Resource Centre in Toronto, Canada - this page includes links to many international Internet resources of interest to cønsumers/Survivors. Their newsletter, the Bulletin, is published on the 'Net.  The  A-way Express Courier Service is a a non-profit courier service in Toronto,  managed by a group of cønsumers/survivors. They felt very strongly that they no longer wanted make-work projects or handouts, so they successfully built this business .