Looking for more information? The links below represent a small cross-section of third-party organizations around the country that are working to change mental health services. Please note that these links are for your information only and OptumHealth is not responsible for their content. OptumHealth is not associated with any of the groups or individuals involved. OptumHealth does not endorse or support any of these organizations, nor do we claim their endorsement or support. 

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State and Local Resources

Emergency Food Network
http://www.efoodnet.org/

Food Connection
http://www.foodconnection.org/

Helping Hand House
http://www.helpinghandhouse.org//

Mental Health Acronyms
http://www.dshs.wa.gov/Mentalhealth/acronyms.shtml

Nativity House
http://www.nativityhouse.org/

Pierce County Community Action Program
http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/pc/Abtus/ourorg/comsvcs/CoAction/html/CommAction.htm

Statewide Action for Family Empowerment of Washington (SAFE-WA)
http://www.safewashington.org/

Tacoma Rescue Mission
http://www.trm.org/

United Way of Pierce County
http://www.uwpc.org/FindHelp.htm

WA Dads
http://www.wadads.org/

Washington Institute for Mental Health Research & Training
http://depts.washington.edu/washinst/

Washington PAVE
http://www.washingtonpave.org/

WA State Mental Health Division
http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/mentalhealth/index.shtml

Washington State Insititute for Public Policy
http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/topic.asp?cat=13&subcat=0&dteSlct=0

Youth 'N Action!
http://www.youthnaction.org/

Consumer and Recovery Oriented Links

Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
http://www.bu.edu/cpr/

Center for The Study and Promotion of Recovery
http://shrp.umdnj.edu/smi/index.htm

Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey
http://www.cspnj.org/

Consumer Voices Are Born Online Community
http://www.cvabonline.com/

McMan's Depression and Bipolar web
http://www.mcmanweb.com/index.html

Mental Health America
http://www.nmha.org

National Mental Health Consumers Self-Help Clearinghouse
http://www.mhselfhelp.org/

National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center
http://www.ncstac.org/

National Empowerment Center
http://www.power2u.org/

Pat Deegan
Pat Deegan & Associates, LLC is a consumer/survivor/ex-patient run organization. Our mission is to improve the personal, social, economic and cultural well being of people with psychiatric disabilities through ex-patient directed study and research.
http://www.patdeegan.com/

Procovery
http://www.procovery.com/

The US Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA)
http://www.uspra.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

Family- and Child-Focused Links

Breaking the Silence: Lessons Plans on Mental Illness
http://www.btslessonplans.org/

Children and Adults with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)
http://www.chadd.org/

Parent to Parent USA
http://www.p2pusa.org/

The Center for School-based Mental Health Programs
http://www.units.muohio.edu/csbmhp/aboutus/index.html

The National Alliance on Mental Illness
http://www.nami.org/

The National Mental Health Information Center's Child, Adolescent and Family page
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/ChildrensCampaign/

The National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
http://www.ffcmh.org/

The Portland Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/

Together, we can help transform behavioral health care in Pierce County.