Mental Health

WVA Resources

• A Guide to Your Treatment Plan
• Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI)

Links

• American Psychiatric Association - Healthy Minds
  Here you will find information on many common mental health concerns, including warning signs of mental disorders, treatment options and preventative measures.
• Bazelon Center
  Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
• Bazelon Center Psychiatric Advance Directives Information
  Psychiatric advance directives can be used to plan for the possibility that someone may lose capacity to give or withhold informed consent to treatment during acute episodes of psychiatric illness.
• Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
  The Center is a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities.
• Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance West Virginia
  The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is the leading patient-directed national organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses. The organization fosters an environment of understanding about the impact and management of these life-threatening illnesses by providing up-to-date, scientifically based tools and information written in language the general public can understand. DBSA supports research to promote more timely diagnosis, develop more effective and tolerable treatments, and discover a cure.
• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
  Improving the lives of people living with mood disorders.
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV)
  AllPsych Online's link to the manual published by the American Psychiatric Association that covers all mental health disorders for both children and adults.
• Legal Aid of West Virginia's Family, Advocacy, Support, and Training (FAST) Program
  The goal of the Family, Advocacy, Support, and Training (FAST) program is to develop a statewide parent-to-parent and youth support network that will empower families to participate in planning, management, and evaluation of their child's treatment.
• Mental Health America
  We are the country's leading nonprofit dedicated to helping ALL people live mentally healthier lives.
• Mental Health Services Locator
  This Locator provides you with comprehensive information about mental health services and resources and is useful for professionals, consumers and their families, and the public.
• Mental Health Social Network
  The Internet's largest and oldest independent mental health network, providing reliable, trusted information and self-help support communities for over 14 years.
• Mountain State Parents, Children, and Adolescent Network (MSP-CAN)
  Mountain State Parents Children and Adolescent Network (MSP-CAN), Incorporated, is a private non-profit, family-run organization that improves outcomes for children with serious emotional disorders and their families.
• National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
  NARSAD supports scientific research to find better treatments and ultimately prevent severe mental illnesses.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
  Support, Education, Advocacy, and Research for persons with mental illness and their families.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness - West Virginia (NAMIWV)
  Links to information and resources about mental illness.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness Veteran's Resource Center
  NAIMI has attempted to consolidate the most useful online resources on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, mental illness, or how to obtain Veterans Administration (VA) benefits.
• National Mental Health Information Center
  This website is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Health Information Network.
• National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives
  Psychiatric advance directives are relatively new legal instruments that may be used to document a competent person's specific instructions or preferences regarding future mental health treatment.
• Northern Panhandle Mental Health Court Diversion Program
  The Northern Panhandle Mental Health Court Diversion Program is an important step in enhancing public safety and realistically dealing with the repeat offender whose "major crime" is untreated mental illness.
• Office of the Ombudsman for Behavioral Health
  This office was established to assist citizens of West Virginia in addressing concerns and grievances that they have regarding the behavioral health care delivery system and to provide for a process in which resolution of those issues can be accomplished.
• Partnership for Workplace Mental Health
  A program of the American Psychiatric Foundation that advances effective employer approaches to mental health by combining the knowledge and experience of the American Psychiatric Association and their employer partners. This link goes to the employee resources page.
• Peer Recovery Network of West Virginia
  The Peer Recovery Network of West Virginia (PRN) is a network of people who have received, are receiving or seeking addiction-related services throughout West Virginia.
• Psychiatric Advance Directives Toolkit
  Planning for Psychiatric Treatment:
  A toolkit for Consumers, Family Members, and Providers.
• Psychiatric Service Dog Society
  Dedicated to responsible Psychiatric Service Dog (PSD) education, advocacy, research and training facilitation.
• The Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
  Users will be able to quickly identify the Collaborative’s past and current research activities, ongoing training and related knowledge development activities, and the growing number of journal articles, monographs, toolkits, and exemplary program descriptions that can be helpful to users seeking to expand their understanding and utilization of community integration principles and practices.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) homepage.
• West Virginia Behavioral Health Providers Directory
  A directory of behavioral health programs in West Virginia.
• West Virginia Comprehensive Behavioral Health Commission
  The Commission was set up by the West Virginia Legislature to study the current status of prevention, treatment, education, related services and appropriate workforce development for behavioral health, including substance abuse and domestic violence when those conditions have an effect upon the system.
• West Virginia Leadership Academy
  The Leadership Academy is an exemplary grassroots program, nationally recognized for its empowering activities in community organizing and action planning for adults with psychiatric disabilities and their families. The Leadership Academy provides a foundation for enhancing consumer skills for effective speaking and civic advocacy and is an evidence-based program with significant outcomes.
• West Virginia's Mental Hygiene Commitment Process
  A flowchart/slide presentation of West Virginia's Mental Hygiene Commitment process.
• West Virginia’s Expanded School Mental Health Initiative
  This is a jointly sponsored effort of the West Virginia Department of Education and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. “Expanded school mental health” refers to programs that build on core services typically provided by schools.