A Guide to Mental Health Transformation On A Personal Level

--Mark Ragins, M.D. The Village Integrated Service Agency.

http://village-isa.org/Village%20Writings/A%20Guide%20to%20Mental%20Health%20Transformation%205-26%20final.pdf

Pillars of Peer Support: Transforming Mental Health Systems of Care

Pillars of Peer Support: Transforming Mental Health Systems of Care—The Pillars of Peer Support Services initiative is designed to develop and foster the use of Medicaid funding to support Peer Support Services in state mental health systems of care. This Web site has the Pillars of Peer Support 2009 and 2010 reports available for download.

http://www.pillarsofpeersupport.org/

Mental Healthcare Reform Blog

Mental Healthcare Reform Blog—Blog maintained by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare. Includes explanation of laws, implementation tracker and further information on healthcare reform and parity.

 http://mentalhealthcarereform.org/

The Campaign for Mental Health Reform

The Campaign for Mental Health Reform—“a collaboration of 17 national organizations aligned to provide a united voice on federal mental health policy. By monitoring federal legislation, administration activity, and public education initiatives, the Campaign for Mental Health Reform works toward its goal of making mental health a national priority and establishing early access, recovery, and quality in mental health services as hallmarks of our nation’s healthcare delivery system.”

http://www.mhreform.org/

Policy Issues & Resources: Healthcare Reform

The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare: Policy Issues & Resources—Healthcare Reform information on the Web site of the Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare. Includes recent news, official letters, fact sheets, issue briefs, summaries, timelines, state activities and the Healthcare Reform Implementation Webinar Series

http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/cs/healthcare_reform

Judge David L. Bazelon: Health Care Reform

Judge David L. Bazelon—A comprehensive guide to the state of mental healthcare reform, including analyses of laws, implementation information, history and reform. Also contains fact sheets and guides available for download and a list of other media resources.

http://www.bazelon.org/Where-We-Stand/Access-to-Services/Health-Care-Reform.aspx

Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America

Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America—Executive Summary of the Final Report, issued by The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in July 2003.

http://store.samhsa.gov/product/Achieving-the-Promise-Transforming-Mental-Health-Care-in-America-Executive-Summary/SMA03-3831

Emergency Response: A Roadmap for Federal Action America’s Mental Health Crisis

Publication issued by The Campaign for Mental Health Reform in July 2005.

http://www.mhreform.org/Portals/0/1.3_EmergencyResponseReport.pdf