The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse is a peer-run national technical assistance and resource center that fosters recovery, self-determination, and community inclusion. The Clearinghouse serves individuals with lived experience of a mental health condition, peer-run service and advocacy organizations, family members, mental health professionals and service providers, policy makers, and the public.
The Clearinghouse was the first national technical assistance center founded and run by individuals diagnosed with mental health conditions. It was conceived in 1986 by founder Joseph Rogers in order to foster the movement for social justice of people with psychiatric diagnoses and to aid such individuals in their recovery.
The Clearinghouse was the first national technical assistance center founded and run by individuals diagnosed with mental health conditions. It was conceived in 1986 by founder Joseph Rogers in order to foster the movement for social justice of people with psychiatric diagnoses and to aid such individuals in their recovery.
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Joseph Rogers is the founder and Executive Director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, a peer-run national technical assistance center. In 1984, Joseph Rogers created Project SHARE (Self-Help and Advocacy Resource Exchange), a peer-support and advocacy organization, under MHASP's auspices.
Past issues of The Key provide valuable technical assistance on critical issues such as police crisis intervention training, reducing the use of seclusion and restraints, Medicaid managed care contracting, and consumer involvement in state Olmstead planning. For a complete list of articles that have appeared in this publication, visit our Web site or call us.
The Key Assistance Report is a quarterly bulletin covering timely technical assistance topics. Each issue stands on its own as a concise toolkit on a specific topic, providing an overview of the topic and its importance to mental health consumers, a page of practical tips, and a list of additional resources.
CMHS is charged with improving the quality of mental health services across the country. We have undertaken a program of activities and pursued policies that can fulfill that goal. The current wave of public attention and interest in our issues is energizing our work. From the Surgeon General's Report to the White House Conference, the nation is focusing on mental health issues.
This event gives the consumer movement a place to share information about important topics such as mutual support and advocacy. It is also a springboard for participants to organize at the national level. New to Alternatives this year was a set of "dialogue sessions" on 12 topics, such as multicultural issues, force and coercion and financing.
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