Aanhouwen is a work and care centre for mentally and physically handicapped adults in the Helderberg Basin. Aanhouwen aims to give handicapped adults the opportunity to take part in meaningful activities to:

• Socialize.
• Train and develop skills
• Allow the all to be productive in society.
• Create an environment where they are accepted and the quality of life can be improved.
• Create public awareness of the handicapped.
• Protect the rights of handicapped persons.

Organisation

Address: 32 Dummer Street, Somerset West 7130

Country: South Africa

Email: aanhouwen@telkomsa.net

Call +27 21 851 3798

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Another Way is a community center providing voluntary alternatives to conventional mental health services. Another Way offers a variety of supports and provides resources for people to lead vibrant lives as valued members of an encouraging, inspiring community. Staff are “peers” with “lived experiences” that are here to share and listen. Our community center is truly Another Way of supporting each others’ journey to live well and overcome struggles.

Another Way believes that all individuals are capable of and entitled to employment that is meaningful to them, that fulfills their needs and wants. Getting a job can support any kind of recovery, even before a person may be balanced in life. In finding the right job, wellness and confidence can be achieved. Employment support at Another Way is free and open to all folks over age 18. Support can be tailored to your individual need. They can provide:

• Help developing Job Readiness Skills, including resume and cover letter composition, and mock interviews
• Mutual brainstorming and goal development
• Support in researching and applying to jobs online
• Benefit counseling for those who want to retain their SSI/SSDI  and return to work
• Job leads and “ins” with local employers
• Referrals to area resources that can support your employment goals
• Free use of computers and WiFi

Another Way provide a calendar of free meals and food shelves in Montpelier and Barre here. 

Organisation

Address: 125 Barre Street Montpelier, Vermont 05602

Country: United States of America

Postal Address: PO Box 506 Montpelier, Vermont 05601

Email: ken@anotherwayvt.org

Call (802) 2290920

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Comcare Trust provide affordable, stable accommodation in the community for adults with chronic psychiatric disabilities. Compare develops and operates homes several suburbs in the Western Cape to enable people with major psychiatric disabilities to reintegrate into the community and experience the comfort and security of having a home where they are supported and valued. Comcare runs seven group homes and blocks of flats in and around Cape Town, providing 60 adults with psychiatric disabilities accommodation in their group homes. 

Organisation

Country: South Africa

Postal Address: PO Box 236, Rondebosch, 7701

Email: comcaretrust@mweb.co.za

Call (021) 448 0760

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Do You M.I.N.D.? uses high-tech VR gadgets to educate youths on things like keeping a balanced lifestyle and looking out for symptoms of mental health issues. It also has intervention services such as counselling sessions and a support group called Upper Room.

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Country: Singapore

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The Forensic Mental Health Program provides an opportunity for a comprehensive training in forensic mental health by coursework. It covers the theoretical and practical aspects of criminal, civil, child and family forensic mental health sub-specialities. The Master of Philosophy in Forensic Mental Health is a research degree designed to provide research training for candidates wishing to progress to a PhD, or who wish to develop competence in researching Forensic Mental Health.

Organisation

Address: UNSW, Faculty of Medicine & Health Discipline of Psychiatry & Mental Health Central Level 1, AGSM Building 38 Botany St, Randwick NSW 2052

Country: Australia

Email: k.dean@unsw.edu.au

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Freedom of Mind is a group that aims to opens up discussion around mental health and wellbeing through a series of events across Bristol. They look at all aspects of what mental health means to create conversation, education and change.

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Address: Bristol

Country: United Kingdom

Email: london@freedomofmind.org.uk

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Hope Health is a company dedicated to improving mental heath with workplace wellbeing. Hope Health build tailored programs that bring the results needed to ensure companies, schools & communities have a fully embedded, holistic wellbeing culture that takes care of the people that matter the most. This includes mental health first-aid training, virtual wellbeing webinars and wellbeing events. Hope Health have a team of accredited wellbeing experts to deliver bespoke wellbeing seminars, workshops & events directly to your office or off-site location. 

• Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognised training course which teaches people how to spot the signs and symptoms of mental ill health and provide help on a first aid basis.

• Corporate Wellbeing: a series of “Lunch & Learn” sessions, bringing together some of Hope Health’s leading field experts in workplace mental health and wellbeing, to share practical advice.

• Hope Therapy provides access to counsellors and therapists that offer a range of therapeutic practices including CBT, DBT, ACT, Psychotherapy, Sleep therapy, Nutritional therapy, finance and relationships.

Organisation

Address: 3rd Floor 86-90 Paul Street, London

Country: United Kingdom

Email: nicole@hope-health.co.uk

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Hope Network is a provider of mental health services using evidence-based therapies, intervention techniques, monitoring progress, and coordinating care with other key service providers.

• Outpatient Therapy and Counseling: Hope Network has therapy and counseling and other outpatient services for children, adolescents, and adults across Michigan. They offer a comprehensive assessment to identify unique abilities, strengths and weaknesses, mental health and behavioral challenges, personality variables, relationship and family issues, and environmental factors that may be affecting people’s lives.
• Crisis Centers: Hope Network provides crisis screening and assessment services as well as Crisis Residential Services and Mobile Crisis Services. Generally, a health plan’s access/service authorization department makes a referral to our local office.
• Youth Crisis Residential
• Specialized Residential
• Integrated Care
• Community Housing
• Supported Independent Living
• Developmental Residential Adolescent Treatment (DART)
• Suicide Prevention Trainings

SERVICES

• Mental Health Referrals & Admissions: 616.970.3722
• General Information West MI: 616.301.8000
• General Information Central & Southest MI: 248.338.7458
• Therapy & Counseling - 855.922.2282
• Residential Services - 616.726.5165 - HNBHSResInquiry@hopenetwork.org
• Intake and Referrals Phone - 844.969.0255
• Screening, Assessment, & Mobile Crisis Services for Adults and Children - 1110 Eldon Baker Drive Flint, MI 48507 - 810.235.3288
• Genesee Regional - 304 W Tobias St Flint, MI 48503 - 810.233.4093
• Milestones - 45964 Brentwood Macomb Township, MI 48042 - 586.948.0665
• Waterstone - 47754 Sugarbush Chesterfield, MI 48047 - 586.598.9490
• Pivot - 440 & 456 Baltimore NE Grand Rapids, MI 49503 - 616.454.4777
• Robert Brown - 160 Manley Street Holland, MI 49424 - 616.298.8190
• Saginaw Meadows - 3353 Hospital Rd Saginaw Township, MI 48603 - 989.746.9633
• Hope Network Behavioral Health Services – West Michigan Region - 3075 Orchard Vista Drive SE Grand Rapids, MI 49546 - 616.301.8000
• Hope Network Behavioral Health Services – East Michigan Region - 1110 Eldon Baker Drive Flint, MI 48507 - 810.213.1803
• Macomb Health Partners – Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) - 175 N. Groesbeck Hwy. Mt. Clemens, Michigan 48043 - 586.627.0024
• Hope Partners: Outpatient & Case Management - 825 Leonard NE Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503 - 616.200.4441
• Kent County Therapy & Counseling Services - 385 Leonard St NE Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503 - 616.295.1752
• Macomb County Therapy & Counseling Services - 175 North Groesbeck Highway Mt Clemens, Michigan 48043 - 586.465.4780
• Friendship Clubhouse - 36211 Jefferson Ave Harrison Township, Michigan 48048 - 586.465.4780
• J-Town Clubhouse - 700 Wildwood Ave Jackson, Michigan 49201 - 517.962.4815

Organisation

Address: 3075 Orchard Vista Drive Southeast, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546

Country: United States of America

Postal Address: PO Box 890 Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546

Email: talktous@hopenetwork.org

Call +1 616-301-8000

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HUG is a community of people from across the Scottish Highlands who come together to speak out about mental health issues and to challenge stigma and discrimination. HUG believes that people with direct experience of mental health problems have an expertise that cannot be found elsewhere. They welcome their members to become involved with HUG by as much or as little as you like. There are three main areas of member involvement:

• Legislation and Policy: at all levels legislation and policy documents call for the need for members to be involved in the planning, the delivery of services and in receiving care.

• Stakeholder Involvement: members are the main reason for the existence of services and, as such, are the people who will be most affected by any changes to the care that they receive. It is therefore very important that they have a say in what happens to services.

• Expertise: through their experiences of life with a mental health problem members gain an experience of services (and gaps in services) and care that cannot be found elsewhere. This experience is vital in the development of appropriate services.

At HUG they welcome you to become involved as much or as little as you can. As a member you can be involved in several ways.

• Think-In Meetings and Creative Groups: every second Thursday we hold a ‘Think-In’ to which all members, wherever they live in the Highland area, are welcomed to join us for discussion and debate on a wide variety of subjects, be they local or topical. SPIRIT’s board of directors meet monthly and our HUG advisory group meet regularly.
• Volunteering: many members opt to become more deeply involved in our work, and choose to use their skills and talents to take on specific tasks to help develop and support HUG. Typical roles might include stigma Busting, Anti-Discrimination, Breaking Down Barriers, participating in our mental health awareness-raising training for professionals, offering personal testimony of lived experience, Partnership Working /Networking, representing HUG at NHS policy meetings, linking in with other mental health related groups and organisations, developing working relationships with mental health workers, other professionals, trainers, general public, media work, reporting
• Collective Advocacy: presenting and representing views of people who experience mental health conditions, lobbying for change, campaigning, consulting members for their points of view, concerns and opinions of mental health services, collecting and collating members’ points of view, creative expression and voice (e.g. making films, DVDs, creative writing, painting, crafts), welfare rights representative, minority groups representative, local area representative, advisory group member, board member, Supporting Volunteers / Practical Support, peer mentoring, training and coaching others, transport and driving, IT support and training, administration and communication

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Country: United Kingdom

Email: hug@spiritadvocacy.org.uk

Call 0300 365 9366

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InSHAPE is a comprehensive, evidence-based health and wellness program designed to improve the health outcomes and social inclusion of individuals living with serious mental illness. The InSHAPE program actively collaborates with community partners to provide opportunities for participants to enhance their mental and physical wellness. This nationally studied program provides:

• Nutritional education and support
• Certified personal training by qualified Health Mentors
• Opportunities to learn healthy cooking skills
• Activities that enhance social connection
• Smoking cessation support
• Access to gyms and other exercise facilities

Organisation

Address: 401 Cypress Street, Manchester, NH 03103

Country: United Kingdom

Call +1 603-668-4111

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Me2 (“me, too”) is a classical music organization created for individuals with mental illnesses and the people who support them. Me2 serves as a model organization where people with and without mental illnesses work together in an environment where  acceptance is an expectation, patience is encouraged, and supporting each other is a priority.

Organisation

Address: Schrafft’s City Center 529 Main St, Ste 103 Charlestown, MA 02129

Country: United States of America

Postal Address: 85 E. Newton St, Boston, Massachusetts

Email: info@me2music.org

Call +1 802-238-8369

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Mood Active is a small not for profit that provide low cost group exercise programs for people diagnosed with depression and anxiety to help them get back on their feet. Mood Active is an exercise therapy program designed to help people suffering from mood disorders such as depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. Their trainers have awareness of the typical barriers for our participants, which may include medication side-effects as well as generally low mood or physical inactivity.

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Address: Sydney, NSW

Country: Australia

Call 0412 190 842

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PeerLink Initiative Uganda (PELI-U)’s purpose is To contribute to efforts to revive a reading culture and empower youth and women to succeed socially and economically.

Socio-Economic Empowerment & Livelihood Program

Socio-Economic Empowerment & Livelihood Program

Under Socio-Economic Empowerment & Livelihood Program we provide vocational and technical skills training to in and out of school youth, women and community members in tailoring, cookery, baking and housekeeping, cosmetology and digital literacy/information communication technology.

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Uganda

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Education and Reading Promotion

Education and Reading Promotion

PeerLink Initiative Uganda (PELI-U) acknowledges the importance of Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Education in preparing children to transit from home to school and ensure that children have adequate care and support. We set up an ECD section within the community library. Through this section children aged 2-5 are exposed to play, read, dance, parent child interaction sessions and oral literature sessions. Currently the ECD activities are implemented on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Our plan is to set up fully fledged ECD units in  6 community based libraries and later on scale up ECD activities to other community libraries. Through the Early Childhood Development Unit (ECD) we organize ECD days which bring together children in the community to play, dance, sing, socialize and get guidance on hygiene and sanitation. The parents and guardians are taken through sessions of parenting skills, child care, child feeding, children rights and hygiene and sanitation.

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Uganda

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Kigezi Cultural Library

Kigezi Cultural Library

Kigezi Cultural Library is a section within Nyarushanje Community Library and Empowerment center. The library serves as a one stop point where Kigezi cultural information, artefacts, music, dance, drama, customs and traditions is collected, documented and preserved for future generation.  Some of the activities implemented under Kigezi cultural library section include:

• Organizing around the fire place dialogue sessions between elderly and children.
• Collection of artefacts and displaying them through the cultural library section.
• Documentation and dissemination of cultural information, artefacts, traditions, values and practices.
• Organize annual cultural galas for Kigezi community members.

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Uganda

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Sexual Reproductive Health Education

Sexual Reproductive Health Education

PELI-U focuses on enhancing the capacity of youth and women to cope with the sexual reproductive health (SRH) related challenges and make healthy informed decisions. We provide sexual reproductive health education sessions for youth and children, provide hygiene and sanitation materials and tool kits, organize girls SRH talks, annual youth health camp, dialogue sessions between youth and health service providers.

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Uganda

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Organisation

Address: Kisaasi-Kyanja road Kanisa Zone Kikaaya Parish

Country: Uganda

Postal Address: P.O. BOX 34625, Kampala

Email: info@peerlinkinitiative.org

Call +256-782-728243

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SocialFelt provides psycho-social support for vulnerable and traumatized group of girls and women in a creative and sustainable way by Arts and Crafts.

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Email: socialfelt@gmail.com

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The Carleton University Student Alliance for Mental Health (SAMH) work from an anti-oppressive lens to expand the understanding of mental health.

Organisation

Address: 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Ontario

Country: Canada

Email: samhcarleton@gmail.com

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Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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