Learning

Resources for Friends and Families

• ActiveMinds
  activeminds.nonprofitsoapbox.com
• Half of Us
  www.halfofus.com
• ACTA: Assertive Community Treatment Association
  www.actassociation.org
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
  www.bazelon.org
• The International Mental Health Research Organization
  www.imhro.org
• INTAR: International Network towards Alternatives and Recovery
  www.intar.org

First-Hand Accounts of Mental Illness and Recovery

• Minds on the Edge
  www.mindsontheedge.org
• Bring Change 2 Mind
  www.bringchange2mind.org
• Davidson, Larry.
  Living Outside Mental Illness: Qualitative Studies of Recovery in Schizophrenia (New York University, 2003)
  Amazon.com
• Earley, Pete.
  Crazy: A Father's Search through America's Mental Health Madness (Berkeley/Putnam, 2006)
  Amazon.com
• Jameson, Kay Redfield.
  An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Vintage, 1995)
  Amazon.com
• Saks, Elyn R.
  The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness (Hyperion, 2007)
  Amazon.com

Models of Community-Based Treatment and Recovery

• Ashoka / Robert Wood Johnson
  Rethinking Mental Health Community Competition
  www.changemakers.com
• Camphill Cherry Orchard (Bristol, England)
  www.cherryorchards.co.uk
• Camphill St Albans (St. Albans, England)
  www.cvt.org.uk/stalbans
• Windhorse (services in Colorado and Massachusetts)
  www.windhorsecommunityservices.com
• Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH)
  www.yale.edu/PRCH