Links to Outside Support and Education Resources
General Mental Health Sites
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI):
www.nami.org
NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH):
www.nimh.nih.gov
The NIMH is the lead Federal agency for research on mental and behavioral disorders. Our mission is to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior.
Mental Health America (formerly known as the National Mental Health Association (NMHA):
www.nmha.org
Mental Health America is the country’s leading nonprofit dedicated to helping ALL people live mentally healthier lives.
Mental Health Services Locator:
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/databases/
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.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - Connecticut:
http://www.nami.org/MSTemplate.cfm?MicrositeID=146
NAMI-CT is the only Connecticut organization affiliated with NAMI, the nation's leading grassroots family and consumer organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with serious mental illnesses and their families.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - New York:
http://www.naminys.org
Formerly known as the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of New York State, NAMI-NYS is a grassroots organization comprised of families and friends of individuals with mental illness. Individuals with mental illness are also active members. We provide support to families and friends of individuals with mental illness through more than 50 affiliates. We also educate the public about mental illness through literature, speaking engagements, videos, workshops and conferences.
Connecticut Clearinghouse:
http://www.ctclearinghouse.org/
Connecticut Clearinghouse is the state's premier library and resource center for information on mental health, substance use disorders, prevention and health promotion, treatment and recovery, wellness, and other related topics.
Eating Disorder Sites
Renfrew Center
http://www.renfrewcenter.com
The Renfrew Center is a women's mental health center that specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, trauma, anxiety, depression, and other women's issues.
National Eating Disorders Association
http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is the largest not-for-profit organization in the United States working to prevent eating disorders and provide treatment referrals to those suffering from anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder and those concerned with body image and weight issues.
Borderline Personality Disorder Sites
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorders
http://www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.com
The Mission of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD) is to raise public awareness, provide education, promote research on borderline personality disorder, and enhance the quality of life of those affected by this serious mental illness.
Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.):
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org
Alcoholics Anonymous is a voluntary, worldwide fellowship of men and women from all walks of life who meet together to attain and maintain sobriety. .
Al-Anon:
www.alanon.org
The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength, and hope in order to solve their common problems.
Al-Anon/Alateen:
www.al-anon.alateen.org
Alateen is a fellowship of young Al-Anon members, usually teenagers, whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking.
Narcotics Anonymous (N.A.):
www.na.org
NA is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We meet regularly to help each other stay clean.
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information:
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/
SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the Nation's one-stop resource for information about substance abuse prevention and addiction treatment.
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD):
www.ncadd.org
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence fights the stigma and the disease of alcoholism and other drug addictions.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism:
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
The NIAAA supports and promotes the best science on alcohol and health for the benefit of all by increasing the understanding of normal and abnormal biological functions and behavior relating to alcohol use, improving the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of alcohol use disorders and enhancing quality health care.
National Institute on Drug Abuse:
http://www.nida.nih.gov/
NIDA's mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction.
Cocaine Anonymous:
http://www.ca.org/
Cocaine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from their addiction.
Codependents Anonymous
http://www.codependents.org
Co-Dependents Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships.
Tekuma Recovery Group
http://www.tekumarecovery.com
The Tekuma Recovery Program is for the addict or alcoholic who has been unable to maintain sobriety in the United States after having failed prior rehabilitation programs. Collaboration between American and Israeli experts in dual diagnosis occurs in an Israeli Therapeutic Community and provides a total care approach. A three month stay in Israel can also include a period of supervised family participation. The program offers a uniquely effective approach to sobriety.
Arnold Washton, Ph.D.
http://www.recoveryoptions.us
Recovery Options is a unique private practice in Princeton, NJ and Manhattan dedicated to treating alcohol and drug problems in professionals, executives, and other high-functioning adults.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA):
www.samhsa.gov
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has established a clear vision for its work – a life in the community for everyone. To realize this vision, the Agency has sharply focused its mission on building resilience and facilitating recovery for people with or at risk for mental or substance use disorders.
Addiction Intervention Resources
http://www.addictionintervention.com/
Addiction Intervention Resources (AIR) is a national organization of professional intervention specialists, counselors and consultants that provide fast and effective crisis management services through a proven protocol of education, action and healing. One phone call to AIR will put in place the proper resources to dissolve the crisis and put the family/organization and addicted individual on a solid course of recovery.
Gallant and Associates
http://www.paulgallant.com
Gallant & Associates have been helping people recover for over nineteen years. We work with alcoholism and addiction, eating disorders, compulsive gambling, mood disorders and sexual addiction. Our skillful interventionists are all certified interventionists with special training in family systems.
Inter-Care
http://www.inter-care.org
Inter-Care's approach to intervention is one that fully involves the family. Our model is invitational, whereby the entire family, not just one family member singled out as the "identified patient", is engaged in the intervention process.
Southworth Associates
http://www.southworthassociates.net/
Southworth and Associates does everything in their power to help addiction dependent individuals, their families, colleagues and friends to arrest the disease of addiction, allowing everyone to go forward fulfilling their lives free from the worry and problems that addiction creates.
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