NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has become the nation’s voice on mental illness, a national organization including NAMI organizations in every state and in over 1100 local communities across the country who join together to meet the NAMI mission through advocacy, research, support, and education.
NIMH is the lead Federal agency for research on mental and behavioral disorders. It offers news, resources, and research summaries on mental health and also provides multiple links to other mental health resources.
The federal agency created to focus attention, programs, and funding on improving the lives of people with or at risk for mental and substance abuse disorders. This site offers a wide array of mental health resources, links, studies, and research gathered by the program and also boasts a large library of free PDF files and other materials.
Sponsored by the National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI), this
multipurpose site, is a starting point for information on almost any
aspect of substance abuse prevention and treatment, as well as many of
the related social issues. Each section provides access to information
at different levels, from introductory to advanced, speaking to all
audiences and age groups.
(Please note the PREVLINE web site has moved to http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/)
Developed by the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, is meant to
help parents and other caring adults promote mental health and prevent
the use of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs among children and
adolescents. It provides concise, practical guidance for parents and
covers topics including childhood depression, proper discipline and peer
pressure, and contains links to other resources.
This resource information was condensed from information in Prevention forum.
