Center for School Mental Health (CSMH)
The CSMHA is supported by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Grant MCJ24SH02-01-0),
Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Consumer Information Center
Contact:
ERIC Clearinghouse
Contact:
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
Contact:
Illinois Prevention Resource Center (a project of Prevention First , Inc.)
Contact:
National Adolescent Health Information Center (NAHIC)
Contact:
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
NAMI membership mainly consists of consumers, family members, and friends of people
who suffer from severe, disabling brain disorders such as schizophrenia, clinical depression,
bipolar disorder (manic-depression), panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and severe disorders in children.
Contact:
National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)
Contact:
The Center for School Mental Health (CSMH), at the
University of Maryland at Baltimore, Department of Psychiatry, is a
national training and technical assistance center designed to promote the
expansion and improvement of mental health services for school-age
children and youth. The CSMHA supports school health, mental health,
and education personnel.
Department of Psychiatry
University of Maryland at Baltimore
680 West Lexington Street, 10th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21201-1570Ph:(888) 706-0980 / Fax:(410) 706-0984
Website: http://csmh.umaryland.edu/
The Consumer Information Center (CIC) was established in 1970 to help
federal agencies and departments develop, promote, and distribute
consumer information to the public. CIC is a separately funded
operation located in the U.S. General Services Administration.
Some of their publications can be downloaded through their website.
18 F. Street, NW Room G-142
Washington, DC 20405
Website:http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
In January 2004, the Department of Education will begin to implement a reengineering plan for ERIC. The new ERIC mission continues the core function of providing a centralized bibliographic database of journal articles and other published and unpublished education materials. It enhances the database by adding free full text and electronic links to commercial sources and by making it easy to use and up to date.
2277 Research Boulevard, 6M
Rockville, MD 20850
Toll Free: (800) LET-ERIC (538-3742)
Phone: (301) 519-5157
Fax: (301) 519-6760
Email:accesseric@accesseric.org
Website:http://www.eric.ed.gov/
The Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health is a national
parent-run organization focused on the needs of children and youth with
emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders and their families. The
Federation's mission is to: provide leadership in the field of children's
mental health; address the unique needs of children and youth with
emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders from birth through transition
to adulthood; ensure the rights to full citizenship, support and access
to community–based services for children with mental health needs and
their families; and provide information and engage in advocacy regarding
research, prevention, early intervention, family support, education,
transition services and other supports needed by children and youth with
emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders and their families.
1021 Prince Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-2971
Ph: (703) 684-7710 / Fax: (703) 836-1040
Email: ffcmh@crosslink.net
Website:http://www.ffcmh.org/
The mission of Prevention First, Inc. is to help public and private
organizations and communities meet the organizational challenged that
the era of health care reform brings to their prevention efforts.
Prevention First, Inc. offers up-to-date information and technology,
and a professional approach that promotes customer needs through the
following main programs: 1) Prevention, health promotion and protection
in the managed care environment, in the community, in the workplace, in
the school, in the home; 2) Information access through on-line technology,
research and publications; and 3) Leadership training focusing on team
and work group approaches, empowerment/community development, employee
relations and managed change.
2800 Montvale Drive
Springfield, IL 62704
Ph: (800)252-8951; (217) 793-7353
Fax: (217) 793-7354
Website: http://www.prevention.org/
The National Adolescent Health Information Center of the University of
California, San Francisco, is a joint activity of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy Studies. The Division is within the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. Both the Division and the Institute reside within the School of Medicine. The Center goal is to promote linkages among key sectors of the health care system that affect the health of adolescents. The Centers current activities include: Increasing the availability of information related to the health of adolescents through a coordinated strategy that links collection, analysis and dissemination of Maternal and Child health-related and other national and state activities; Improve the capacity of State Title V agencies to plan, deliver and improve access and coordination of comprehensive primary care for adolescents; Conduct short term and long term policy studies to
snthesize research findings, identify health trends, compare policy approaches and analyze current and proposed legislation affecting adolescents; Develop strategies to increase the public's awareness of the health needs to special populations.
National Adolescent Health Information Center
Division of Adolescent Medicine & Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
400 Parnassus Avenue, Room AC-01
San Francisco, CA 94143-0374
Ph: 415/476-2059 / Fax: 415/476-6106
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) was founded in 1972. They are a grass roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with severe mental illness and their loved ones. NAMI strives to reduce stigma and ignorance of severe mental illness to help eliminate discrimination and restrictions on access to essential
treatments and life supports such as employment, housing, health insurance, and social contact. We have over 1,100 affiliate groups and coalition operations in all 50 states.
200 N. Glebe Rd., Suite 1015
Arlington, VA 22203-3754
Ph: 703/524-7600
Fax: 703/524-9094
Website: http://www.nami.org/
NASP publishes books, booklets, fact sheets, and CD rom that contain information and resources on different mental health issues in school settings. Their publications are created for a wide range of audience such as researchers, faculty, practitioners, teachers, and parents. Examples of the topics covered are intelligence and personality assessment, home-school collaboration, alternative educational delivery systems, interventions for achievement and behavioral problems, children at risk, etc.
4340 East West Highway, Suite 402
Bethesda, MD 20814
Ph: 301/657-0270 / Fax: 301/657-0275
E-mail:nasp8455@aol.com
Website: http://www.uncg.edu/~erriccas2/nasp/