WHO SHOULD SIGN UP FOR MHAAR?
Mental Health And Addiction Resources Website
www.mhaar.org
A Public Service Website for the Twelve Texas Counties
Collin*Cooke*Dallas*Denton*Ellis*Fannin*Grayson*Hunt*Kaufman*Montague*Navarro*Rockwall
Creation: October 2008 Launch: November 2008
Dear Mental Health Advocate/ Friend/Service Provider:
Please help us create www.mhaar.org during October, Mental Illness Awareness Week and Month. www.mhaar.org is designed to be a user-friendly website for all. It is accessible to the blind and translatable into 35 world languages. We hope that this pilot project* will expand to the state and nation.
Do you have an interest in, advocate for, or provide funding or services for persons or family members of persons with mental health, mental illness, psychiatric disorders, addictions, emotional problems, behavioral and conduct disorders, substance abuse/chemical dependency in our 12 counties?
Are you a legitimate organization or entity or large group in any of the categories below? Individual practitioners and private practice groups will be added in 2009.
If a license or accreditation is required, do you have it?
If so, please go to the MHAAR FORM heading on www.ntspp.org and submit your listing.
Please forward this information to all who should be on the site and please add a link to www.mhaar.org to your website. And begin to use www.mhaar.org in November!
Our thanks,
The North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians Executive Council
MHAARntspp@gmail.com www.ntspp.org
CATEGORIES for program, group, facility or organizational listing on www.mhaar.org in 2008:
LEGAL:
Correctional, County, Campus Police, Child Protective Services, Court Diversion, Court-Ordered, Criminal, Criminal Justice, Detention, Diversion Court, Forensic, Jail, Jail Diversion, Jail Ministry, Jail Program, Jail Service, Law Firm, Legal, Legal Aid, Legal Assistance, Mental Illness Court, Police Department, Police Community Program, Police Training, Prison, Prison Ministry, Prison Program, Prison Service, Probation Department, Probation Department Program, Prostitute Diversion Initiative, Sheriff’s Department, Sheriff’s Department Program
TREATMENT FACILITIES (and others where mental health services available):
ER, Emergency Room, Psychiatry Emergency Room, Clinic, Community Mental Health Clinic, Hospital, Hospice, Inpatient, Intensive Outpatient, Jail, Medical Center, Mental Hospital, Mental Retardation Facility, Military, Opioid Treatment, Outpatient Clinic, Outpatient Treatment, Pain Clinic, Partial Hospitalization, Prison, Psychiatric Day Treatment, Psychiatric Inpatient, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization, Psychiatric Residential, Psychiatric Outpatient, Psychiatric Hospital, Psychiatric Unit, Psychotherapy Organization, Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Residential Treatment Program, School, Sheriff’s Department, Methadone Clinic, Partial Hospitalization, Prison, Probation Department, Sleep Disorders Center, Sleep Disorders Program, State Hospital, State Mental Hospital, Student Mental Health, Supported Outpatient, Treatment Center, University Student Mental Health, Veteran’s Facility
EDUCATIONAL:
Academic Center, Campus Police, College, College Program, School, School Program, Student Mental Health, University University Mental Health, Educational Services, Graduate School, Graduate Program, Medical Center, Medical School
VETERANS/MILITARY:
Veterans Program, Veterans Facility, Military
RESEARCH:
Clinical Research, Clinical Trial, Research, Research Facility, Research Program
SUBSTANCE-RELATED:
Aftercare, Alcohol Recovery, Alcohol Treatment Center, Buprenorphine Clinic, Detoxification, Drug Rehabilitation, Drug Recovery, Drug Treatment Center, Methadone Clinic, Opioid Treatment
SERVICE FACILITY FOR:
Adoption, Home Services, Family Counseling, Home Visits, Laboratory Testing, Nursing, Pain Clinic, Patient Assistance Program, Pharmacy, Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Sleep Laboratory, Testing Center, Training Center, Treatment Center, Visiting Nurses
LIVING SITUATIONS:
Boarding Home, Adoption, Assisted Living, Foster Care, Group Home, Half-way House, Nursing Home, Orphanage, Residential Living, Shelter All, Shelter Women, Shelter Women and Children, Shelter Homeless, Shelter Men, Shelter Children, Transitional Housing
ORGANIZATIONS:
Behavioral Health Organization, Community Council, Corporation, Corporate Giving/Grants, Corporate Sponsor, County, County Health Services, Federal, Federal Health Services, Governmental Agency, Insurance Company, Oversight Agency/Board, Social Service Agency, State Health Services
FAITH-BASED FACILITIES & PROGRAMS:
Chaplain, Chaplain Program, Church, Church Program, Faith-Based, Faith-Based Clinic, Faith-Based Program, Hospital Chaplain, Jail Ministry, Mosque, Pastoral Care, Prison Ministry, Synagogue
PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH:
Charity Clinic, Charity Organization, Clubhouse, Community Mental Health Center, Community Psychiatry, Public Mental Health Entity, Public Mental Health Provider, Public Mental Health Program
ADVOCACY:
Advocacy Organization for Psychiatric or Mental Health or Addiction Issues, Fundraising Organization, Grant Foundation for Psychiatric or Mental Health or Addiction Issues, Professional Organization Or Society, Volunteer Organization
SUPPORT GROUPS:
Support Groups, Support Organizations For Patients or Clients or Consumers or Families
CRISIS MENTAL HEALTH:
ACT Team, Assertive Community Treatment, ER, Emergency Room, Psychiatric Emergency Room, Psychiatric 23-hour Observation, Mobile Crisis Services, Hotline or Crisis Lines
*The NTSPP Executive Council is indebted to the Texas Foundation for Psychiatric Education & Research for a grant to support advertising of this pilot project website. We are also grateful to Bob Stewart LCSW of Project Transform, Janie Metzinger of Mental Health America, Sr. Cpl Herb Cotner of the Dallas Police Department, Sherry Cusumano of NAMI Collin County, Sharon DeBlanc of Value Options, Rob Garrett MD of NTSPP, and webmaster James Pepper for their wonderful assistance with this project.
*The North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (www.ntspp.org) is the local chapter of The Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (www.txpsych.org), which is the district branch of The American Psychiatric Association (www.psych.org).
