Websites

• Disability Voting Coalition of PA
  The Disability Voting Coalition of PA (DVC of PA) is a growing organization of people committed to improving the voting experiences of people with disabilities.
• Facing Us: Your Online Home for Wellness
  Join the Facing Us Clubhouse and experience interactive recovery on the web! Create an online journal or wellness plan, share recovery tips and quotes, design and print your own crisis plan, or share recovery stories, art work, tips and quotes. This site is provided by the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA).
• Health Education Answers
  Health Education Answers is an interactive and educational website that helps you learn ways to get healthy and stay healthy. If you've been diagnosed with a health condition, you can find information and tips for learning to live better with your disease.
• Health Information for Persons who are Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing
  This website seeks to provide reliable health care information, including behavioral health care information, to people who are deaf, deaf-blind, and head or hearing, in a format that is accessible to all.
• Interactive Health Tutorials
  The tutorials are interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute. Using animated graphics, each tutorial explains a procedure or condition in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial.
• Mental Health Recovery
  A website on mental health recovery and the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), representing the work of Mary Ellen Copeland.
• National Empowerment Center
  A website including recent evidence and strategies for recovery, from the National Empowerment Center.
• Network of Care for Behavioral Health
  This is an individualized mental health resource web site that allows people to use Internet technology to find pertinent behavioral health information; identify available services, supports, and community resources; and keep personal records on secure computer servers. This online community provides critical tools such as links to services, a resource library, legislative information, insurance, and support and advocacy. It ensures that those navigating the behavioral health service system, those working to avoid the need for formal services, and those ready to transition out of the system can find the information they need.
• PA-Co-Occurring.Org
  The Department of Public Welfare, Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) and the Northeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center (NeATTC), Institute for Research, Education and Training in Addictions (IRETA) have developed this resource about co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
• Pennsylvania Recovery and Resiliency
  This web site is a one-stop resource for transformation activities in Pennsylvania and was developed as part of OMHSAS' efforts to fully support the opportunity for recovery for all who are served by the public mental health system.
• Pennsylvania Department of Health's Health and Human Services Resource Guide
  This website provides information and resources on health services related to education, prevention, treatment and research for all Pennsylvanians.
• SAMHSA Recovery Month
  The Recovery Month website, maintained by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, aims to promote substance abuse recovery. Recovery Month is celebrated in September.
• Sleep Better 2 Live Better
  This program explores sleep--why you need it, why you may not be getting enough of it and how to get the balance right again.
• Tobacco Free SWPA Service Coalition
  The purpose of the coalition is to implement regional initiatives as planned by the Tobacco Free SWPA Executive Coalition.
• What a Difference a Friend Makes
  This website is for people living with mental illness and their friends. It includes tools to help in the recovery process, information on the different kinds of mental illnesses, real-life stories about support and recovery, and interactive video showing how friends can make all the difference, from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Reports

• Department of Public Welfare, Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. (November 2005). A Call for Change: Toward a Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Service System for Adults. Available online.
• Pennsylvania Health Law Project and Pennsylvania Mental Health Consumers' Association. (January 2007). The Many Doors to Consumer Empowerment: A Guide to Advocacy for Mental Health Consumers in Pennsylvania. Available online.