Recovery Online Toolkit

Site Links

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Items may be listed under more than one heading.

Recovery

General
Care Planning & Self Management
Education, Training & Employment
Lived Experience
Mind/Body Health
Policy
Service Provision

General

Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (USA)
The Center (located at Boston University)is a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities by improving the effectiveness of people, programs, and service systems

Evidence-Based Practices (towards recovery)
This site is part of a project that aims to increase access to information about evidence-based practices that support recovery (from Centre for Mental Health Services, USA).

Harvesting Our personal Efforts (HOPE): Mental Health Recovery
Contains resources about principles and best practices in the psychiatric recovery process. Funded by the Ohio Department of Mental Health.

Institute for the Study of Human Resilience
Targets studies of resilience, recovery and rehabilitation among people facing significant life challenges (such as serious illness, trauma, disability, or disadvantage).

Keepwell: real recovery solutions in mental health
Delivering recovery focused resources to the mental health sector. Winner of gold award for excellence at TheMHS 2006.

Mental Health Services of Trieste (Italy).
Information from Trieste Mental Health Services: world wide leaders in implementing mental health reforms in the areas of deinstitutionalisation, community based care and human rights.

National Empowerment Centre (USA)
A consumer/survivor/expatient-run organisation offering practical information to help recovery after mental illness. Funded in part by The Center for Mental Health Services.

National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
Clearinghouse of U.S. based information and networking activities around self help and recovery.

Repository of Recovery Resources
A web-based repository of recovery resource information, hosted by the Boston University.

Scottish Recovery Network
Aims to engage communities in debate on how best to promote and support recovery from long-term mental health problems.

Tidal Model
Research-based model of mental health recovery, developed originally by nurses, with the active support of people who were using, or had used, psychiatric services. Site run by Poppy Buchanan-Barker and Phil Barker.

Well? Mental health and well-being in Scotland
Highlights initiatives and work addressing the issues of improving mental health and well-being in Scotland.

Care Planning & Self Management

Center for self-determination
A highly interactive working collaboration of individuals and organizations committed to the principles of self-determination (USA).

Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI) Program
This site promotes early detection, educates about psychosis and provides direction for seeking help. Contains useful resources, links and stories (from Canada)

GROW
GROW is a community of persons working towards mental health through mutual help and a 12 step program of recovery.

Health matters: consumer guides
Information about health research, choosing a GP, treatment options, evaluating services etc. From the ABC.

International Centre for Clubhouse Development
A community based rehabilitation program for people with mental health disorders providing information about employment, health, education, skills based training and social activities.

Mental Health Recovery and WRAP
The homesite for Mary Ellen Copeland and the WRAP materials. Contains free articles and crisis planning information.

National Research and Training Center: Self Determination
The Center provides a series of tools to advance self-determination and person-driven services for use by people with psychiatric disabilities (Uni. of Illinois).

Partnership in Coping System of Recovery
A structure for a working alliance in which people with mental health concerns are helped to use their own coping strategies.

Rethink
"Working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life". Information about current research, publications, bulletin board etc. (UK).

Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
Information and resources for Mary Ellen Copeland's Wellness Recovery Action Program.

Education, Training & Employment

Commonwealth Rehabilitation Services
Delivers vocational rehabilitation services, helping people manage the effects of their injury, disability or health condition to benefit their quality of life and help them to get or keep a job.

Job capacity assessment
Part of the Government's Welfare to Work initiative: identifies a person's capacity to work, any barriers or impediments and provides referral to services.

Mindful employer
A UK program that promotes and disseminates good practice in the employment and retention of people with mental health problems.

Neami
A community managed organisation that provides psychosocial rehabilitation, education, support and advocacy for people living with a psychiatric disability.

Ostara Australia
A consortium of specialist services who assist people with mental health issues in the area of finding, or retaining, employment. Also undertakes lobbying and research activities in this area.

Recovery and Rehabilitation Centre
Training, treatment, counselling, consulting and research based on the Prahran Missions Centre for accredited Boston University Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training.

VICSERV
VICSERV is the peak body for Psychiatric Disability Support Services in Victoria. Psychiatric Disability Support Services provide support to consumers and carers through programs such as home-based outreach, psychosocial rehabilitation day programs, mutual support and self-help, respite and advocacy.

Lived Experience

Intervoice: The international community for hearing voices
Focuses on solutions that improve the life of voice hearers in the knowledge that these methods have been co-developed by voice hearers and professionals.

Mind Bloggling: mental wellbeing from the inside out
An innovative web based project, designed to give people experiencing the effects of mental ill health a voice as well as helping to raise awareness of mental health issues amongst the public.

National Voices Forum (UK)
A service user and survivor network, featuring information, personal pages, creative works, reviews, discussion groups etc.

Rethink
"Working together to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life". Information about current research, publications, bulletin board etc. (UK).

Rethink Blogs (UK)
Online diaries, views and experiences about living with a mental illness.

Mind/Body Health

Feeding Minds
Webguide to foods that may help to manage mental well-being (from Mental Health Foundation, UK).

Gawler Foundation
Committed to an integrated approach to health, healing and wellbeing that includes the body, emotions, mind and spirit.Users need to register (free) to access some articles etc.

MindBodyLife
A source of information on ways to enhance physical wellbeing - especially for people living with a mental illness and for the people who care about them.

SANE's Mind and Body Initiative
This initiative aims to draw attention to the physical health needs of people with a mental illness . . . and the mental health needs of people with chronic physical health problems.

Policy