Pleasel explore further to see how YOU can help create this very important change in attitudes. Some links are to video, audio or art files..

GENERAL - MENTAL ILLNESS
NAMI - National Alliance on Mental Illness
Get NAMI Stigmabusters flyer - PDF format
Canadian Mental Health Association
Violence and Mental Illness - myths & reality
Mental Health America - an action network full of facts and actions to take.
StopStigma - ADS government resource center, for  access to teleconferences.
Carter Center - Working to reduce the stigma of mental illness
BBC Campaign on stigma in mental illness.
Mental Illness Education Project in MA. for video resources.
Mental Health Works - for mental illness and stigma facts and resources.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Burden of Disease Project, World Health Organization

HEALING, ART and FAMOUS PEOPLE
The Awakenings Project - grassroots initiative run by artists with mental illness.  Began in 1996 as an art exhibit for those with mental illness to show their  work. They feel that art can change society's views.
Creativity and Mental Illness - a NAMI site
NAEMI - Art and the Mentally Ill (National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill)
Stamp Out Stigma See their famous people with mental illness page.

FAITH BASED RESOURCES
Mental Health Ministries - view YouTube videos on stigma of mental illness.
VIDEO - Check YouTube and see Mental Illness Stigma Project by Mental Health Ministries

OTHER
Peer to Peer Resource Center
Mindfreedom.org - Support Coalition International
Be sure to check Healing with Art and Mindfulness practices (VIDEO) . Both offer self empowerment information. Other resources are listed throughout.

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