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These organizations are connected to WMHRC Founders in the last several years and want to recommend them to to our web site visitors.  Two of our Co-Founders have teamed up with these non-proifit organizations on many Mental Health matters.

CHOICES  & Soteria House,  Jim Gottsteien,  Esquire

The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, a non-profit, tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization.... The public mental health system is creating a huge class of chronic mental patients through forcing them to take ineffective, yet extremely harmful drugs.  The purpose of the Law Project for Psychiatric rights is to promote and implement a strategic legal campaign in support of psychiatric rights and against unwarranted court ordered psychiatric medication....   http://psychrights.org/index.htm

Alliance for Human Research and Protection  - The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) is a national network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical research practices, to ensure that the human rights, dignity and welfare of human subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks associated with such endeavors.   This year, more than 15 million Americans will be recruited into clinical trials.  The AHRP mission is to stand up - and speak out - for the human rights of research subjects - especially those who are vulnerable and /or susceptible to coercion, manipulation and exploitation. Those who are incapable of exercising their right to informed consent are in greatest need of protection from research abuse:

• Disadvantaged children are sought as human guinea pigs - even toddlers and infants, some living in foster care;
• Elderly people with impaired reasoning capacity, some living in nursing homes;
• People disabled by mental or physical illness;
• Illegal immigrants and disadvantaged populations living in underdeveloped countries;
• Prisoners, including members of the armed forces.

AHRP-Medical Ethics Link - http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/blogsection/12/80/

AHRP-Conflict of Interest Link - http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/blogsection/1/55/

PACE - Dan Fisher, MD, PhD

Recovery is real and this website is filled with practical information that will help you recover if you have been labeled with a mental illness. "We envision a future when everyone with a mental illness will recover" ( New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, 2003 ).  New at the NEC  website: NCD Report recommends that peer support by people with psychiatric disabilities be included in disaster planning, (July 7, 2006).  http://www.power2u.org/

MindFreedom International unites 100 grassroots groups and thousands of members to win campaigns for human rights of people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities. MindFreedom International is where mutual support meets human rights activism... and where democracy meets the mental health system. A majority of MindFreedom members identify themselves as survivors of human rights violations in the mental health system, but membership is wide open to everyone who supports human rights including concerned mental health professionals, advocates, activists, family members.  http://www.mindfreedom.org/about.shtml

Fast for Freedom in Mental Health, go to: http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/hungerstrike.shtml