SITES ON MENTAL HEALTH Info Sites http://www.who.int/mental_health/en/ World Health Organisation’s page on mental health. http://www.mhsanctuary.com/ A useful site, which provides information and support services, containing articles, a bookstore, mailing lists, and many other resources. www.schizophrenia.com A detailed website which provides information, support, and education about schizophrenia. www.moodswing.org The sister website of schizophrenia.com which provides information, support, and education about bipolar disorder. http://www.rethinkcarers.org A support site of a UK charity, Rethink, that caters for people dealing with severe mental illness and their family, friends and carers. http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/info/ The site contains general information on various types of mental illness . http://www.indianpsychiatry.com An online mental health resource, providing information on mental health to mental health professionals, patients and their carers from an Indian perspective. http://www.disabilityindia.org The site contains information on various disabilities, including mental illness, and lists names of organisations working in the field of mental health as well as details on the Mental Health Act 1987. http://www.mentalhealth.com/ A resourceful site containing advice, discussion groups, links, and a magazine on mental health. www.psyplexus.com PsyPlexus is an attempt to increase the dissemination of information on mental health, especially to professionals in the developing world. The site contains open-access and free journals on psychiatry and psychology. Organisations In India NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences) http://www.nimhans.kar.nic.in/default.htm A leading multidisciplinary institute in the area of mental health and neurosciences. ACMI (Action for Mental Illness) http://www.acmiindia.org/concerns.html Action For Mental Illness (ACMI) is an initiative that seeks to bring about policy change to impact quality and availability of support services to mentally ill persons and their families. WHO (World Health Organisation) http://www.who.int/mental_health/en/ WHO’s international webpage regarding mental health across the world. Ashadeep http://www.giveworld.org/ashadeep/ashadeep_profile.htm Ashadeep is a Assam-based organisation that provides psychosocial rehabilitation to persons with mental illness through the active participation of their family members. SCARF http://www.scarfindia.org SCARF ( Schizophrenia Research Foundation), is a Chennai-based organisation that specialises in schizophrenia care and research.  Chaitanya http://www.aarogya.com/SupportGroup/schizo/chaitanya.asp A Pune-based organisation that runs a half-way home for schizophrenics. Snehi http://www.snehi.org/ Snehi is an organisation committed to community mental health care that works with young people for their psychological well being through its community mental health programmes. Paripurnata http://www.giveworld.org/paripurnata/paripurnata_profile.htm Paripurnata is a Kolkata-based organisation that provides shelter, treatment and rehabilitation to women with mental illness who have been imprisoned or hospitalised. Ashra http://www.missionashra.org/achivement.htm Ashra is an Orissa-based organisation for the rescue, treatment, rehabilitation and resettlement of homeless women with mental illness. Antara http://www.outlookindia.com/mad.asp?fodname=20041122&fname=Making&sid=1 A Kolkata-based organisation that rehabilitates penniless refugees from Bangadesh who have been affected by mental health problems. Institute for Psychological Health http://www.healthymind.org/ Institute for Psychological Help is a Mumbai-based community mental health initiative, started in March 1990, aiming to make the community aware of its mental health needs, providing plans & solutions and involving community members in various projects and activities. Abhaya www.abhaya.org Abhaya is a Kerala-based care home for women and children in mental distress. Anbaham www.anbaham.org a Chennai-based rehabilitation centre for orphan and destitute men with mental illness. CAMH (Centre for Advocacy in Mental Health) www.camhindia.org CAMH is a community resource centre in mental health, offering a library, documentation service and an oral history archive. M S Chellamuthu Foundation www.msctrust.org M S Chellamuthu Foundation and Research Trust is an institute of mental health and rehabilitation that runs various community-based and institution-based rehabilitation programmes. The Richmond Fellowship Society ( India) www.rfsindia.org The Richmond Fellowship is the world's largest network of mental health service providers that provides care and psychosocial rehabilitation for persons with mental health needs in India and neighboring countries. Abroad World Federation for Mental Health http://www.wfmh.org/index.html The World Federation for Mental Health is an international, multidisciplinary, grassroots advocacy and education organisation concerned with all aspects of mental health National Resource and Training Centre on Homelessness and Mental Illness www.hrchmi.samhsa.gov The National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness is a centre that has focus on the effective organisation and delivery of services for people who are homeless and have serious mental illnesses The National Mental Health Association http://www.nmha.org The National Mental Health Association is the oldest nonprofit organisation in the US addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness. With more than 340 affiliates nationwide, NMHA works to improve the mental health of all Americans, especially the 54 million people with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research and service. The Canadian Mental Health Association http://www.cmha.ca/bins/index.asp A Canadian organisation which supports the mental health of all and supports the resilience and recovery of people experiencing mental illness Mind http://www.mind.org.uk/ Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. NAMI – National Alliance on Mental Illness http://www.nami.org/ NAMI is the largest grassroots mental health organisation in the US, dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. The site contains a great deal of information on mental illness as well as interactive, confidential mailing lists. Mental Health News Schizophrenia and Homelessness - Our demand for efficiency will turn the hardest hit into outcasts http://www.mentalhealth.com/mag1/pre-hom1.html Active contact work among the homeless who suffer from schizophrenia can ensure a better life for around half of them, but many groups have to be involved… Need to tackle mental health problems stressed http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/14/stories/2006011414790400.htm Developing countries including India have a very low ratio of mental health professionals and that too concentrated in urban areas… Where the mind is without fear... http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=83298 December 3 was World Disability Day. The Persons with Disability Act (PWD Act), passed by Parliament in 1995, recognises mental illness as a disability on par with physical disabilities… Mental health programme in school http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1347250,curpg-1.cms One in five children and adolescents may have a mental health problem. At least 1 in 10 young people may have a serious emotional disturbance… No sacking schizophrenic workers http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1296747.cms Giving a boost to the rights of the mentally ill, the Bombay high court has ruled that employees who develop mental ailments cannot be terminated from service on that basis… U.S.-based doctors plan health care centres http://www.thehindu.com/2006/01/08/stories/2006010814160500.htm Doctors from Tamil Nadu settled in the United States have proposed to reach out to villages, the "bread basket of India," by building health care centres… MHRC orders pension for mentally ill BSEM employee http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=27727&typeid=1 The Manipur Human Rights Commission, MHRC has asked the Board of Secondary Education, Manipur, BSEM, to grant pension to an employee who had been removed from service on account of unauthorised absence from duty owing to a mental illness… Talking to The Demons - Schizophrenia is no longer seen as a genetically predetermined disease http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10313177/site/newsweek/ Mike Harris left Cambridge, England, for university in Scotland filled with the natural enthusiasm for starting an independent life. But he couldn't handle all the partying and drugs… Neuronal protein may lead to schizophrenia http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20051121-12193400-bc-us-neuronalprotein.xml John Hopkins scientists say a function of the cerebral cortex protein may contribute to subtle neuronal defects observed in schizophrenia… Drug-cost cloud over mentally ill http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050322/asp/nation/story_4523233.asp For the 21-year-old engineering student in a north Indian town, the proposed changes in patent laws may mean a return to an existence damned by hallucinations and suicidal thoughts… Psychiatrists take 'Kyon Ki' to NHRC http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1286360.cms City psychiatrists, incensed by the "derogatory portrayal" of mentally-ill patients in the new film Kyon Ki, have moved the national human rights commission (NHRC) asking for certain portions of the movie to be deleted…

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