Web Sites of Interest

Boston University - Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Lots of additional recovery resources, from a the pioneering academic leader.

National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning

This is a link to a 2000 literature review (35 pages, in pdf format).

Mary Ellen Copland

Her web site, with lots to buy, seminars, and some free stuff. Copeland is famous as the author of the Wellness Action Recovery Plan (WRAP), perhaps the most used recovery tool among peer support groups in the U.S. and also in California State hospitals.

Daniel Fisher, et. al. National Empowerment Center

If you don't yet know of Dan Fisher and his work, he is the nation's leading former client, a Psychiatrist who did his residencey at Harvard. Much in demand, Dan was instrumental in helping the President's Commission on Mental Health produce a report that includes recommendations for shifting the system toward a recovery focus. His National Empowerment Center maintains a rich site, with many links, if you haven't mined it lately.

Various links at Dan Fisher's National Empowerment Center center site. See description above.

Literature review, University of Illinois at Chicago, National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability

An important, if now somewaht dated, bibliography from this pioneering institution's Self-Determination Knowledge Development Workgroup.

Conference papers from the University of Illinois at Chicago

This pioneering effort, looks at the role of self-determination at both the individual and system levels.

NAMI Sonoma County

One of the most developed NAMI programs in the state is right here in Sonoma County!.

Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web

A favorite site. Not fancy, but offers wide-ranging listings of documents and links, including a variety of individual recovery stories.