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 If you are looking for additional resources, you may use the links below to government and private agencies and associations that provide a wealth of information. Massachusetts State and Local Resources Mass. Department of Mental Health Their mission is to improve the quality of life for adults with serious and persistent mental illness and children with serious mental illness or severe emotional disturbance by ensuring access to an integrated network of effective, efficient and culturally competent mental health services that promotes consumer rights, responsibilities, rehabilitation, and recovery. Mass. Department of Mental Retardation Every day they provide a wide array of services to more than 30,000 individuals. The level of disability may require assistance with job placement, transportation, residential services, or intense levels of treatment, monitoring and care. They offer assistance to people with severe disabilities through state-operated programs and by contracting with more than 265 private provider agencies, including CHD. Mass Department of Public Health They are dedicated to serve all the people in the Commonwealth, particularly the under served, and to promote healthy people, healthy families, healthy communities and healthy environments through compassionate care, education and prevention. Neighborhood Housing Services of the South Shore A private partnership devoted to neighborhood revitalization by promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing. Since its inception in 1981, NHS of the South Shore has grown from a neighborhood-based rehab loan program into a highly respected organization that provides a wide variety of housing and neighborhood services to South Shore residents. Quincy Commission on the Family Provides support for families including the basics, substance abuse, healthcare and senior services. Recommends and coordinates resources for elders to help them to remain as independent as possible. This private, non-profit agency also advocates for elders and their caregivers, always with the goal of promoting an optimal quality of life. Wakefield Dept. of Community Development Their primary responsibility is to secure and administer expenditures of Federal, State and other grant funds to improve the quality of life for Wakefield residents. The office applies for funds that generally benefit Wakefield residents whose household incomes are low or moderate as determined by guidelines established by HUD. Weymouth Dept. of Planning and Community Development The department is responsible for the administration of several housing rehabilitation programs, as well as promoting and providing housing opportunities affordable to people of all income levels. Federal Government Resources Department of Health & Human Services This is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. The Department includes more than 300 programs, covering a wide spectrum of activities. National Institute of Mental Health They are part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical and behavioral research agency of the United States Government, a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National and International Associations American Association of Mental Retardation AAMR promotes progressive policies, sound research, effective practices, and universal human rights for people with intellectual disabilities. American Psychological Association (APA) A scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With more than 155,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide. American Public Health Association (APHA) Brings together researchers, health service providers, administrators, teachers, and other health workers in a unique, multidisciplinary environment of professional exchange, study, and action. International Assoc. of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services Their purpose is to help advance the role, scope, and quality of services designed to facilitate the community readjustment of people with psychiatric disabilities with a strong and unified voice to achieve the mission and purposes of psychosocial rehabilitation. International Center for Clubhouse Development (ICCD) Their mission is to build and coordinate a strong international network of clubhouse programs. ICCD clubhouses are founded on the realization that recovery from serious mental illness must involve the whole person in a vital and culturally sensitive community. A clubhouse community offers respect, hope, mutuality and unlimited opportunity to access the same worlds of friendship, housing, education and employment as the rest of society. National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) They offer an array of education and training programs by and for consumers, which draw on the expertise of mental health consumers who have learned to live well with their illnesses and who are eager to help others do so. |
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