A fund ready for donors. The AACP Fund was established by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists “to encourage, equip and empower community and public psychiatrists to develop and implement policies and high-quality practices that promote individual, family and community resilience and recovery.”
Read MoreA fund ready for donors. An International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry effort with the goal of identifying, studying and promoting safe, humane approaches to helping those with mental disorders. Examples of such approaches are psychotherapy, residences based on the Soteria model, non-drug help for persons in early psychosis, peer support and other recovery-based approaches.
Read MoreThe second Excellence symposium (Chapel Hill, NC). This meeting resulted in the presentations and journal article listed here: EASA, Open Dialogue, OASIS, Dr. Mark Foster’s dinner speech and Identifying Priorities for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research for Serious Mental Illness.
The first Excellence symposium (Portland, OR). An international gathering of mental health treatment professionals came together in response to Robert Whitaker’s shocking assessment of pharmaceutical research on psychotropic drugs in his book, Anatomy of an Epidemic. We created discussion papers along four tracks: public policy, medication optimization, schizophrenia treatment, and depression treatment. The work group created the following discussion papers: Effective Strategies for Positive Long-Term Outcomes in Depression, Protocol for Antidepressant Use and The Evidence Base for Antidepressants.
Co-sponsorship of the Children’s Mental Health Summit, September 2012. A national gathering in Syracuse, New York, resulting in 75 presentations. Co-sponsors included It’s About Childhood and Family, Inc., The Gifford Foundation, Contact Community Services, Inc. and The David B. Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics at Syracuse University. Visit the Library for access to 70 papers presented at the Conference.
A fully funded project, ongoing collection of experiences. An online collection of stories from people around the world who have experienced and overcome mental health challenges. Video and written testimonials to the uniqueness and creativity of every road to recovery. Visit Shared Stories and igotbetter.org for more information.
A fully funded project, films available for purchase. Filmmaker Daniel Mackler has completed the translation of his three documentaries, Take These Broken Wings, Healing Homes and Open Dialogue into twenty languages. The films tell of three approaches to mental health recovery that use neuroleptic drugs as sparingly as possible. Before this work, many of the languages represented here had little or nothing available on this subject. See trailers and access purchase links.
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