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Scholarship offered to individuals with the specified mental health diagnoses to assist in paying for high school equivalency, trade/vocational schools, and associate, bachelors, and masters degrees. Download the 2011-2012 Catalog here: http://reintegration.com/userimages/reintegration_application_2011-2012.pdf
http://www.reintegration.com/resources/scholarships/apply.asp
"NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) on Campus clubs are student run, student-led organizations that provide mental health support, education, and advocacy in a university or college setting."
By Anne Sullivan for the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Boston University.
http://www.bu.edu/cpr/resources/articles/1997/sullivan-soydan1997.pdf
"An interactive and informative web site for people with a psychiatric condition that addresses issues and reasonable accommodations related to work and school."
http://www.bu.edu/cpr/jobschool/
http://www.bipolarworld.net/job_school/js27.htm
"The Higher Education Support Toolkit (HES) provides disability service staff and health care staff with a simple way to work with students who are experiencing limitations arising from their psychiatric disability."
"AHEAD is a professional membership organization for individuals involved in the development of policy and in the provision of quality services to meet the needs of persons with disabilities involved in all areas of higher education."
Implementation Resource Kit for Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment. Draft version: 2003.
The DRA Online Resource Center, Web site of the Dual Recovery Anonymous World Network. This Web site offers complete information on DRA, including FAQ, meeting locator, membership services and publications.
Article published on the Web site of the Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) includes FAQ and self-help tools.
http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_brochures_dual_diagnosis
Collection of information and resources on dissociative identity disorder/multiple personality disorder, published on HopeforHealing.org. Includes self-help resources.
"ISSTD seeks to advance clinical, scientific, and societal understanding about the prevalence and consequences of chronic trauma and dissociation."
Visit the FAQ (http://www.isst-d.org/default.asp?contentID=76) for useful information on dissociation and dissociative disorders.
Description of dissociative disorders, including symptoms, causes, risk factors, tests, treatment, and more.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dissociative-disorders/DS00574
This excerpt is drawn from Chapters 1, 3 and the Appendix of: Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997). This material is used by permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/special/excerpt.html
August 2007. Chris Koyanagi, Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
Article discussing the history of deinstitutionalization, including its causes and consequences. Also recommends books, periodicals, and organizations on the subject.
http://www.minddisorders.com/Br-Del/Deinstitutionalization.html
January 2000. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: The Administration on Developmental Disabilities.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/aidd/resource/the-olmstead-decision?page=all
"This report looks at the progress, problems and opportunities that have taken place since the implementation of the Olmstead decision. The ruling makes it unlawful to institutionalize a person because of a disability. Despite the view that home- and community-based services can better maintain the independence of persons needing long-term services, too many low-income older people with disabilities are still being institutionalized. This link opens a 36 page PDF document."
September 2010. Eric Carlson and Gene Coffey. National Senior Citizens Law Center.
http://www.nsclc.org/about-us/nsclc-in-the-news/NSCLC%20Olmstead%20Report.pdf
A Decade of "Little Progress" Implementing Olmstead: Evaluating Federal Agency Impact after 10 Years. December, 2009. National Disability Rights Network: Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Disabilities.
"This guide offers mental health professionals a better understanding of the factors which can affect their counseling and suggests ways to improve and enrich services for their ethnically diverse clientele."
By Delia Saldana, Ph.D. ; Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
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