Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network - Links

Links to mental health organisations

• Changing Minds - The Changing Minds website contains information about mental health and mental illness.
• Critical Mental Health Forum - The Critical Mental Health Forum is a group of mental health service users, carers, professionals, academics and others who are critical of current theory and practice in mental health services.
• Investing in Children is an organisation concerned with the human rights of children and young people
• Lewisham Mental Health Foundation - Lewisham Mental Health Foundation aims to improve local provision for users of mental health services in several ways.
• London Development Centre for Mental Health - The London Development Centre for Mental Health aims to contribute to the improvement of mental health and mental health services in London by working with those who provide, fund and use mental health services.
• Mentality - The first and only national charity dedicated solely to the promotion of mental health.
• Mind out - An active campaign to stop the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health.
• Mind - The leading mental health charity in England and Wales. A mental health promotion and research group, it also has regional branches focussing on advocacy and support.
• National Electronic Library for Mental Health - The National Electronic Library for Mental Health is an online library of mental health information, conditions, topics and background material.
• National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) - NIMHE aims to improve the quality of life for people of all ages who experience mental distress by working beyond the NHS and helping those involved in mental health to implement positive change.
• NSPCC - The NSPCC website includes a section on parents with mental health problems.
• Mental Health and Learning Disability Portal - The Mental Health and Learning Disability Portal has 10,000 members who share information about mental health.
• Rethink - Formerly 'The National Schizophrenia Fellowship', Rethink is the largest severe mental illness charity in the UK.
• Revolving Doors Agency - the UK's leading charity concerned with mental health and the criminal justice system.
• Richmond Fellowship - The Richmond Fellowship is one of the biggest providers of mental health care in the country.
• Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health - The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health aims to influence national policy and encourage good practice in mental health services and in doing so, to improve the quality of life for people with severe mental health problems.
• Sane - Formerly focussing on schizophrenia, Sane now works to raise awareness and respect for people with mental illness and their families.
• Social Exclusion Unit - The Government's Social Exclusion Unit has a mental health project launched in March 2003.

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