Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Peer-to-Peer Resource Center
Web site of the Peer-to-Peer Resource Center - "At the Peer-to-Peer Resource Center, we believe that the support of peers – other mental health consumers – is essential to wellness and recovery. We are working to bring peer support the recognition it deserves, and to make peers an integral part of every consumer’s treatment team. Our goal is to put in place a national system to train and certify peer specialists who work with other mental health consumers to promote outcomes of self-directed recovery, independence, and community integration." Please note, too, that the site has an online form for gathering information "about organized efforts in your state to train and involve mental health consumers in providing peer support."  
  

Alternatives 2004
"The 19th annual Alternatives conference, the only national mental health conference organized by and for mental health consumers and survivors, will be held from October 13 to 17, 2004, at the Marriott Denver City Center in Denver, Colorado. The theme of Alternatives 2004 — 'Achieving the Promise of Recovery: New Freedom, New Power, New Hope' — was chosen to echo the title of the report of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health...” The site includes an online registration form and a downloadable conference brochure (Adobe Acrobat format).