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  Link   Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
For three decades, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has been the nation's leading legal advocate for people with mental disabilities.
  Link   National Mental Health Association
The National Mental Health Association (NMHA) is the country's oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness.
  Link   DisabilityInfo.gov
DisabilityInfo.gov provides people with disabilities, their families, employers, service providers and other community members with critical disability-related information.
  Link   National Alliance on Mental Illness
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (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.
  Link   National Empowerment Center
The mission of the National Empowerment Center Inc. is to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been labeled with mental illness.
  Link   Caring Connections
Learn more about general advance directives. A program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Caring Connections provides free resources and information to help make decisions about end-of-life care and services before a crisis.
  Link   Association for Academic Psychiatry
The Association for Academic Psychiatry focuses on education in psychiatry at every level from the beginning of medical school through lifelong learning for psychiatrists and other physicians. It seeks to help psychiatrists who are interested in care
  Link   National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
NARPA's fundamental mission is to help empower people who have been labeled mentally disabled so that they may learn to independently exercise their rights.
  Link   National Disability Rights Network
The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) is the nonprofit membership organization for the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and Client Assistance Programs (CAP) for individuals with disabilities. Collectively, the P&A/CAP
  Link   National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
A consumer-run national technical assistance center serving the mental health consumer movement. We help connect individuals to self-help and advocacy resources, and we offer expertise to self-help groups and other peer-run services for mental health
  Link   Advocacy Unlimited, Inc
Advocacy Unlimited offers education in self, systems, and legislative advocacy skills for persons with, or in recovery from, psychiatric disabilities, as well as a wealth of information and resources on mental health.
 
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Bazelon Center
The National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives is a collaboration between The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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