Australia
Mind Matters, Australia
A resource and professional development program that targets secondary schools to promote and protect the mental health, social and emotional wellbeing of members of school communities. It offers free resource kits for every Australian school and two-day professional development program.
Sane Australia, Stigma Watchers, Australia
Combats stigma by monitoring media portrayals of mental illness and suicide, to ensure they are accurate and respectful and confronts the media to when these topics are covered inaccurately or irresponsibly. It also congratulates the media on good coverage.
Department of Health and Aging, Australia
Excellent resource on information about stigma and anti-stigma advocacy in Australia.
Mental Health Council of Australia
Excellent resource on information about stigma and anti-stigma advocacy in Australia, but information can be used in other areas as well.
Beyondblue, Australia
Beyondblue is an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments whose goal is to raise community awareness about depression and reducing stigma associated with the illness. It ppartners with health services, schools, workplaces, universities, media and community organizations, as well as people living with depression, to bring together their expertise around depression.
Mentalympians.tv
"The purpose of this website is to stimulate discussion, collaboration and planning as well the design and development of a 'community channel', a multimedia website to be operated by individuals with experience of mental health problems through a global network of mental health consumer groups. The aim is a 21st century peer support initiative that fosters change on individual, community and societal levels (from home page)."
Canada
Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada
An excellent resource on stigma for families.
Canadian Mental Health Association, Canada
10 things you can do to fight stigma and discrimination. This is an excellent resource site.
Dare to Dream
This program helps Ontario youth become more aware of mental health.
Ireland
Mind Wise New Vision
Information and Resources for challenging stigma and providing services and support to people with mental illnesses.
New Zealand
Like Minds, Like Mine
Nationwide plan to reduce the stigma of mental illness and the discrimination that people with experience of mental illness face everyday in the community.
Singapore
Silver Ribbon
This program is based off of the “Campaign for the Brain” (http://www.silverribbon.org/) but focuses on the stigma of mental illness. Their efforts focus on combating mental health stigma by “encouraging early treatment and facilitating integration of people with mental illness within the society through innovative means of promoting mental health literacy.”
United Kingdom
Time to Change, UK
An ambitions £18m project designed to end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems. The program is backed by international evidence on what works, and has “at its heart people with direct experience of mental health problems.” Their goal is to makes lives better for everyone by ending mental health discrimination and to inspire people to work together to end this discrimination.
Mind Out for Mental Health, England
Mind works to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress by challenging discrimination and promoting inclusion, advancing the views, needs and ambitions of people with mental health problems, influencing policy through campaigning and education, inspiring the development of quality services which reflect expressed need and diversity and achieving equal rights through campaigning and education.
‘See Me’, Scotland
Individuals who have experienced stigma related to mental illness are involved in this campaign which combines the national publicity program with local and national anti-stigma efforts.
Mind Your Head, Scotland
Located in Shetland, Scotland and designed to raise mental health awareness, as well as reduce the stigma of mental ill-health promote counseling and other forms of mental health support services, promote mental ill-health awareness specifically in relation to suicide prevention, work in partnership with existing mental health agencies to further the objectives of the charity.
One In Four, Scotland
A campaign that uses music to raise awareness of mental health issues and break down the barriers surrounding it. One In Four uses music to highlight mental health issues and encourage open and honest discussion and an understanding of the problems many people face while at the same time raising funds for further campaigns.