Mental Health Links

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

• The nation's leading legal advocate for people with mental disabilities.

FolkTime, Inc.

• FolkTime operates two peer-support programs for adults with chronic mental illness, one in NE Portland, and one in Oregon City.

Friends for Survival, Inc.

• Friends For Survival, Inc. is a national non-profit outreach organization open to those who have lost family or friends by suicide, and also to professionals who work with those who have been touched by a suicide tragedy.

The Helping Our Heroes Foundation

• The Helping Our Heroes Foundation provides funding, services, and volunteers to augment the support of the military injured in either Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) or Operation Iraqi Freedom, and runs parallel to the initiatives identified in the U.S. Army Wounded Warrior Program (AW2).  The role of the foundation is to provide patient advocates, identify and fund educational opportunities for the soldier, coordinate specialty counseling (financial assistance, career, housing, etc.), and assist with emergency funding needs as deemed appropriate.

Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI)

• Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) is dedicated to promoting the human rights and full participation in society of people with mental disabilities worldwide.

Mental Health America (MHA)

• Mental Health America (formerly known as the National Mental Health Association) is the country’s leading nonprofit dedicated to helping ALL people live mentally healthier lives.

Mental Health Association of Portland

•  An independent advocacy group in Oregon for persons with mental illness and addiction.

Mental Health Net

• The Mental Help Net website exists to promote mental health and wellness education and advocacy.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) - Oregon Chapter

• NAMI Oregon and its partners advocate for a transformed community system of care that expands regional services and reduces criminalization and reliance on institutional care by promoting resilience, recovery, and a fulfilling life in the community for everyone.

Nineline - Youth Crisis Line

• The Nineline is a 24-hour crisis hotline for teenagers operated by Covenant House, the largest privately-funded agency in the Americas providing shelter and other services to homeless, runaway and throwaway youth. 

The OHSU Avel Gordly Center for Healing

• The OHSU Avel Gordly Center for Healing is a multicultural, adult outpatient treatment clinic.  Culturally-responsive services are provided by a multicultural team of professionals.  Services are open to all members of diverse communities of Oregon. 
  

Oregon County Crisis Lines & Mental Health Resources

•  A comprehensive statewide listing of crisis lines and mental health resources by county.
  

Oregon Family Support Network (OFSN)

• OFSN's mission: Oregon families supporting Oregon families with children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, mental and/or physical challenges and special needs.

Oregon Partnership

• Oregon Partnership is a statewide non-profit promoting healthy kids and communities through drug and alcohol awareness, drug prevention programs, and 24 hour crisis lines for treatment referrals and suicide intervention.

Psych Central

• Psych Central is the Internet's largest and oldest independent mental health social network created and run by mental health professionals to guarantee reliable, trusted information and support communities to consumers, for over 13 years.  Psych Central is today's modern voice for mental health information and advocacy and have the broadest online reach and recognition of any mental health network online today, touching the lives of over 800,000 people every month.

Speaking Up

• Speaking Up, an organization in the UK, supports and empowers people with learning difficulties, disabilities and mental health problems to speak up for themselves.

Wraparound Oregon

• Wraparound Oregon is an initiative to build a coordinated system of services and supports for children and youth with complex mental health needs who are involved in multiple systems such as child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and special education.