MHAG Links
As Ernst Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful, wittily observed in the 1970s:
“Cranks are small devices that cause revolutions!”
Is MHAG that revolution!?
WITNESS - the only UK charity exclusively concerned with breaches of trust in professional relationships. We work with organisations to improve public protection and support people whose trust has been broken. WITNESS runs a helpline, support and advocacy services, provides professional boundaries training and undertakes research and policy work.
Indymedia uk - user-run media service, uk's biggest.
THE HATE CRIME DOSSIER - As Disability Now launches its new hate crime campaign, we publish here for the first time our disturbing dossier of crimes against disabled people.
Neuro Diversity
Neuro-Diversity - the website.
BBC, NeuroDiversity articles - BBC ND1 - BBC ND2 - BBC ND3 - BBC ND4 - BBC ND5 - BBC ND6 - BBC ND7 - BBC ND8 - BBC ND9
Colour-Se7en - a point of reference on the Web for information on the subject of Asperger Syndrome and other Autistic Spectrum related disorders, while at the same time helping to create more public awareness on this little known and talked about subject. The name for the web site came about after much thought about the Autistic spectrum its range and complexity, together with the structure of an everyday rainbow, bringing its own complexity and spectrum with many different hues and shades of one colour...
Thom Hartmann (wiki) - bestselling broadcaster, author, former psychotherapist. He is a lay scholar of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Schizophrenia.com - We started in 1995, and we're a leading non-profit web community dedicated to providing high quality information, support and education to the family members, caregivers and individuals whose lives have been impacted by schizophrenia. http://www.schizophrenia.com
BBC, "Embrace neuro-diversity or adopt genetic cleansing"
Autism Centre at Sheffield Hallam University
Autscape - 3-day conference 29 Jul - 1 Aug 2008
Hoffmann Foundation for Autism
Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Userwatch, Independent Occasionally Very Satired View Of Mental Health Issues!
Chewing The Fat, Dave Hingsburger blog
COPING, a Survival Guide for Asperger's - Marc Segar died tragically in a traffic accident on the M1 towards the end of 1997. His short life was deeply influential, and this book is his memorial.
Autism GM (Greater Manchester)
Think differently about Autism - Think differently about autism is a new campaign launched by The National Autistic Society :- to improve public understanding of autism, including Asperger syndrome. The website contains events listings, blogs by autistic people or those caring for them, video clips showing what it may be like to be autistic and cope in real-life situations, stories from people on the autism spectrum, campaign details and FAQs. Readers are invited to get involved and tell their stories.
Intute: Social Sciences has many good autism resources in its Social Welfare and Psychology sections.
Avoiding unfortunate situations
New Standards of Care for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Conditions (PDF)
Musculoskeletal symptoms are very common among the NeuroDiverse
Employers and Disability Issues
BRAIN.HE - BRAINHE.com is run at De Montfort University, Leicester, to help students with SpLDs (specific learning differences) and staff working with them. SpLDs include AD(H)D, Asperger's, autism, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyslexia and dyspraxia. We support the 'social model of disability' and use the term 'neurodiversity' to encompass the types of brain currently associated with 'specific learning difficulties'.
Patient and Public involvement
Local involvement networks (LINks)
What's new in patient and public involvement
Independent and Inclusive Living
Welcome to the Office for Disability Issues - this is the focal point within government to coordinate disability policy across all departments and take forward the Life Chances Report to ensure robust implementation of its recommendations.
BBC
Ouch!
Ouch is a website from the BBC reflecting the lives and experiences of
disabled people. It has regular columns, features, quizzes, a monthly
near-cult podcast, a blog or two and a community messageboard amongst
other stuff. More on Ouch!
Shaping
Our Lives
Shaping Our Lives National User Network is an independent user-controlled
organisation. We started as a research and development project but became
an independent organisation in 2002. Shaping Our Lives works with a wide
and diverse range of service users.
Welcome to the Shaping Our Lives networking website
We provide a way for service user organisations, service users and other people who are interested to -
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support the development of local user involvement that aims to deliver better outcomes for service users
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be a place where user controlled organisations can voice their views and concerns.
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give information about and support service user involvement at a national level
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be open to all user groups in an equal and accessible manner
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to enable groups to link to other user controlled groups
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to develop links with world wide international user controlled organisations.
Improving Life Chances - Government report, what they think is good practice...
Choices
and Rights (Hull and East Riding)
This is a local organisation in HULL, which provides help and support
for people with physical difficulties. (East Riding does not have its
own CIL. Despite asking for 12 years!)
Aidis Trust - Computing - a disability computing charity who provide free advice support to home users.
Centre for Accessible Environments - The Centre for Accessible Environments is committed to the provision of buildings and places which are accessible to all users.
National Centre for Independent Living - NCIL
Southampton Centre for Independent Living
Greater Manchester Coalition for Disabled People
Derbyshire Coalition for Inclusive Living
Birmingham Centre for Independent Living
Welcome to Outsiders Outsiders is a group to help socially and physically disabled people in their personal development. A wide range of disabled volunteers are involved.
Oaasis - Office for Advice, Assistance, Support Information on Special needs.
Dating4Disabled.com - aimed at helping disabled individuals develop their social, personal and romantic life in a supportive and understanding environment.
Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education
Alliance for Inclusive Education
The Penrith Photo-voice Project began in April 2007. The aim of the project was to support people with learning difficulties to explore what they thought were the social barriers to control of their own lives... Bringing social inclusion publications to the U. K.
Leeds Centre for Integrated Living (Leeds CIL)
Inclusive Living Sheffield (ILS)
WECIL- West of England Centre for Inclusive Living
Birmingham Centre for Inclusive Living
Leeds Centre for Disability Studies
Sefton Recovery Group - home of WRAP books
Change - Change People Website
Parents and Carers Council Calderdale
European Network on Independent Living
The Independent Living Institute
promoting disabled people’s self-determination.
with social inclusion section.
conferences on Mental Health, and Supported Living
Disability History hosted by Birmingham City Council Equalities Division.
Hull CAB, Citizens' Advice Bureau - Welcome
Heros - CAB links for East Riding
East Riding - and legal help
Contact details for other advice and other legal help...
National DebtLine - for FREE CONFIDENTIAL and INDEPENDENT ADVICE...
The Hesley Group - Hesley Village & College - A perfect example of NON-inclusive living!
ASPECT Consultancy Report Now Available!
Guidance for Director of Adult Social Services (as sent by NAS to Jane Sochovsky, ASPECT):-
Statutory Guidance (pdf)
Best practice (pdf)
Reward and recognition: The principles and practice of service user payment and reimbursement in health and social care. Policy and Guidance And notes on from Public Involvement UK: Penalty Free Participation
Payments for consultation, NDT (PDF)
Campaigns
There's no place like home; and we mean real homes, not nursing homes. We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community.
Diabled People's Action Network (1).
DAN - Disabled People's Action Network (moonwolf)
Email: danmail-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
to join put "subscribe" in the Subject bar.
United Kingdom's Disabled People's Council
(UKDPC) (Formely BCODP)
International Day of Disabled People, December 3rd 07
Haringey International Day of Disabled Persons
normality screening and much more!
Time to Boycott People In Need and finish it off.
Rainbow Ripples, Leeds' lesbian, gay and bisexual disabled peoples campaigning group. Amongst other things, they have published quite a comprehensive report on LGB disabled people's experiences of service provision in Leeds, together with recommendations, in conjunction with an academic from the University of Hull. It is a unique report, certainly the only one that isn't impairment specific. The report is available on the Rainbow Ripples website.
Media Action Group for Mental Health
(MAGMH) MAG exists to promote positive perceptions of mental health by collaborative working with the media and the general public.
In defence of biodiversity in all its forms, liberty, equality and the freedom to be different. Working for a society in which hierarchies, whether based on class, gender, (dis)ability, race, money or power are abolished, food and energy sources are ecologically sustainable, and all people are recognised and accepted for who and what they are.
European Network of (ex) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP)
World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP)
Mainstream Mental Health
Rethink
An organisation which supports carers of people with mental health difficulties.
Sainsbury
Centre for Mental Health
National Mental Health Charity which develops policy and practice.
Mental
Health Foundation
National Mental Health and learning disability Charity which develops
policy and practice.
United
Kingdom Advocacy Network
National Mental Health Charity advancing advocacy in England and Wales.
National
Empowerment Center
USA based Mental Health Group.
Richard
Bentall (wiki)
experimental clinical psychologist.
User Led Mental Health
Mental
Health Media and Rethink
Media information service for challenging descrimination.
MadNation
USA based Mental Health and Human Rights group.
Mad
Pride
Mad Arts Group.
Zyra
Excellent personal website.
Hearing
Voices Network
Mental Health Group for people who hear voices.
ECT
Anonymous
Group for people concerned about ECT as a treatment.
Self
Harm Network
Self help Mental Health group.
The National Association for People Abused in Childhood
ASUK@AngelSurvive.com - Abuse Recovery Support
No
Panic
Self help Mental Health Group for people who experience anxiety and panic.
The
UK Federation of Smaller Mental Health Agencies
Federation of Mental Health Agencies and Groups.
Strategies
for Losers
Another excellent personal website
Survivors' Poetry - with Write to Survive campaign
the Windows Project - workshops for promoting writing for all ages and abilities within the community.
Poetry Bookshop Online - get published!
Poetry Organisations and Libraries
Learning Impairments
CASE
This is a HULL organisation for people with learning difficulties.
DANDA
A new organisation founded to better the lives of people with conditions
such as Dyspraxia, ADHD, and Asperger's Syndrome.
Human Rights
LIBERTY - human rights - UK foremost civil and human rights campaigns body.
Welcome to the Equality and Human Rights Commission
UN Enable on Disability - for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
UN Convention on Disability promoting disabled people's human rights.
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