Local | National | Specific Illnesses | Employment/Rehabilitation | Prescription Drugs | Policy/Advocacy | Professional Orgs | General

Links to Online Resources

Reports

• New ‘Home’ to Address Health Disparities for Persons with Mental Illness Full Report

• Health Care Reform Provisions Effective on September 23rd (9/16/10)

Local

• Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Board of Franklin County www.adamhfranklin.org
• Education Council Substance Abuse Data, Franklin County 2007 (6th-12th graders)
• Know! Empowering Kids to Be Substance Free www.HelpThemKnow.com
• Ohio Cares www.ohiocares.ohio.gov
• Ohio Department of Mental Health www.mh.state.oh.us
• Ohio Recovery Network www.Ohio-Recovery-Network.org
• United Way of Central Ohio www.liveunitedcentralohio.org/site
• Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation www.ohiospf.org
• PLAN of Central Ohio www.plancolumbus.org
• Understanding Medicaid Managed Care (Ohio Dept. of Job & Family Services)
• Benefit Bank Sites
• HandsOn Central Ohio (2-1-1 in Franklin County)
  

National

• Federal Health Care Reform Law (www.ohiohighriskpool.com) FAQs by the Ohio Dept. of Insurance
• Applications can be downloaded and printed out at www.ohiohighriskpool.com
• Consumers can call 1-877-730-1117 beginning August 2 to request a written application form and instructions.
• Hard copy application packets will also be available at the One-Stop and Benefit Bank sites across the state.
• Mental Health America (formerly the National Mental Health Association) www.mentalhealthamerica.net
• Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health www.ffcmh.org
• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) www.nami.org
• National Association to Promote Rural Mental Health www.narmh.org
• National Consumer Support Technical Assistance Center ncstac.org
• National Institutes of Mental Health www.nimh.nih.gov
• National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse mhselfhelp.org
• National Resource Center for Psychiatric Advance Directives www.nrc-pad.org
  
• Safe Schools/Healthy Students Action Center www.sshs.samhsa.gov
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration www.samhsa.gov

Specific Illnesses

• Alcohol Abuse
  This is an easy to use, science-based online alcohol screening test. Users answer a few questions and instantly find out if their drinking patterns are likely to be risky or harmful. Take the screening.

• Attention Deficit Disorder
  CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder) www.chadd.org

• Bipolar Disorder
  NARSAD (National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders) www.narsad.org
  NAMI www.nami.org/helpline/bipolar.htm
  Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance www.DBSAlliance.org
  Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation www.bpkids.org

• Depression
  Online Depression Screening www.depression-screening.org
  NARSAD (National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders) www.narsad.org
  Mental Health America www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/depression
  Depression Bipolar Support Alliance www.DBSAlliance.org

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  Freedom From Fear www.freedomfromfear.org
  Anxiety Disorders Association of America www.adaa.org
  National Institute of Mental Health http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/generalized-anxiety-disorder-gad/index.shtml

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  Freedom From Fear www.freedomfromfear.org
  Anxiety Disorders Association of America www.adaa.org
  Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation www.ocfoundation.org
  National Institute of Mental Health http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/index.shtml

• Panic Disorder
  Freedom From Fear www.freedomfromfear.org
  Anxiety Disorders Association of America www.adaa.org
  National Institutes of Mental Health http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/panic-disorder/index.shtml

• Phobias
  Freedom From Fear www.freedomfromfear.org
  Anxiety Disorders Association of America www.adaa.org
  National Institute of Mental Health--Social Phobia www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/anxiety.cfm

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  Freedom From Fear www.freedomfromfear.org
  Anxiety Disorders Association of America www.adaa.org
  National Institute of Mental Health http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml

  Make the Connection (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs) http://maketheconnection.net/conditions/ptsd

• Schizophrenia
  NARSAD (Nat'l Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & Affective Disorders) www.narsad.org
  Schizophrenia & Substance Abuse http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml
  

Employment/Rehabilitation

• Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation www.bu.edu/cpr
• Center for School Mental Health Assistance csmha.umaryland.edu
• Handling Your Psychiatric Disability in Work and School www.bu.edu/CPR/jobschool/
• International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services Ohio Chapter ohioiapsrs.homestead.com
• Job Accommodation Network www.jan.wvu.edu
• Mental Health and Aging Advocacy Project www.mhaging.org
  

Prescription Drug Assistance

• Rx for Ohio www.rxforohio.org
• Ohio's Best Rx www.OhioBestRx.org
• Partnership for Prescription Assistance www.pparx.org
• Medication Assistance Programs www.needymeds.com
• The Prescription Help Programs. Click here.
• AZ&Me™ Prescription Savings Program www.astrazeneca-us.com
  

Policy/Advocacy

• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law www.bazelon.org
• The Center for Mental Health Services Information Center www.mentalhealth.org
• Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health csipmh.rfmh.org
• New York City Voices: A Consumer Journal for Mental Health Advocacy www.newyorkcityvoices.org

Professional Organizations

• American Academy for Adolescent Psychiatry www.adolpsych.org
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry www.aacap.org
• American Association of Suicidology www.suicidology.org
• American Psychiatric Association www.psych.org
• American Psychological Association www.apa.org
• Association of Women Psychiatrists www.womenpsych.org
• National Association of School Psychologists www.nasponline.org
• Ohio Academy of Family Physicians www.ohioafp.org
  

General

• Internet Mental Health www.mentalhealth.com
• Mental Help Net www.mentalhelp.net
• Screening for Mental Health, Inc. www.mentalhealthscreening.org
• World Federation for Mental Health www.wfmh.org

The informational links throughout this website are provided as a convenience to our readers. We do not control the sites and cannot be responsible for the accuracy of the content found within other organization's sites.