SAMHSA's Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity and Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Illness (ADS Center)
The goal of the SAMHSA ADS Center is to enhance social acceptance and inclusion by ensuring that people with mental health problems can live full, productive lives within communities without fear of prejudice and discrimination. Information about what works to promote acceptance and social inclusion of people with mental illnesses. The ADS Center accomplishes this by providing: training and technical assistance to help create initiatives to promote social inclusion; information about how to connect with campaigns and programs that already are n place; information about publications, events, research, resources, and issues of relevance regarding prejudice and discrimination; a comprehensive bibliography of literature addressing prejudice and discrimination; resources and information promoting social inclusion related to special populations.
The Anti-Stigma Project
A collaboration of On Our Own of Maryland and the Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration that fights stigma within the mental health system by raising consciousness, facilitating dialogues, searching for creative solutions, and educating all participants within or connected to the mental health community.
Half Of Us
Targets college students and promotes mental health, providing tips on how to maintain health, where to get help during crisis and how to combat the stigma associated with mental illness.
Mental Health Education Project
Videotapes about people whose lives have been touched by mental illness in the context of their whole lives- personal and family relationships, communities, treatment, recovery, and work.
Mpower
Uses music to raise awareness and change attitudes about mental illness and stigma among youth by working with a diverse coalition of artists, music industry executives, mental health advocates and youth leaders.
NAMI SitgmaBusters
Network of dedicated advocates across the country and around the world who se to fight inaccurate and hurtful representations of mental illness.
National Mental Health Awareness Campaign
Public education campaign, dedicated to battling stigma, that was launched as part of the 1999 White House Conference of Mental Health.
National Stigma Clearinghouse
This organization was created to National Stigma to “track negative stereotypes of mental illnesses and provide information about fighting prejudice to concerned activists.” The do so by identifying inaccurate images in news, advertising, and the entertainment media.
National Institute of Mental Health
The Stigma and Health Disparities program supports research on processes underlying stigma and discrimination to develop effective strategies and approaches for reducing stigma and discrimination. It uses this research to examine media influences on attitudes about mental illness and its treatment. It also uses research to examine the influence of social, cultural, and environmental factors on diagnosis, help-seeking decisions and preferences, and the helping relationship.
Stamp Out Stigma
This is a community advocacy a educational outreach program designed to eliminate stigma associated with mental illness by creating a forum where individuals with mental illness share their personal experiences with the community at large.
What a Difference a Friend Makes
SAMHSA launched the Mental Health Campaign for Mental Health Recovery to encourage, educate, and inspire people between 18 and 25 to support their friends who are experiencing mental health problems.