Information and Referral Resources
- Resources at MHASP
- Public Assistance Services
- Finding a Professional
- Suburban Resources
- National Resources
- Other resources on the Internet
Resources at MHASP:
- Information and Referral staff respond to questions from callers seeking information about services or other behavioral health issues. Staff members direct callers to the most appropriate service or resource agency, provide a sympathetic response to their concerns and determine whether their questions or problems warrant follow-up by a Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP) professional.
Information and Referral
Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
1211 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Telephone: 215-751-1800, ext. 228
Director: Nancy Salazar - Parents Involved Network (PIN) is a program of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP) that assists parents or caregivers of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. PIN provides information, helps parents find services and will advocate on their behalf with any of the public systems that serve children. These include the mental health and education systems and other state and local child-serving agencies. Visit the PIN Web site for more information.
Parents Involved Network
Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
1211 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Telephone: 215-751-1800, ext. 214
Director: Glenda Z. Fine - The Mental Health Aging / Advocacy Project works to increase awareness of the mental health needs of seniors and urges community and government leaders to develop mental health services that can meet those needs. It assists seniors, their families and caregivers as they navigate the often complex mental health system that provides those services. Visit the Mental Health Aging / Advocacy Web site for more information.
Mental Health Aging / Advocacy
Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
1211 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Telephone: 215-751-1800, ext. 266
Director: Thomas Volkert - The TEC (Training, Education and Consultation) Family Center offers workshops designed to help family members, partners and friends learn how to cope with the adult in their life who has a mental illness. TEC also offers one-on-one consultations, either in person or by phone, with family members and friends and trains mental health professionals who work with seriously mentally ill adults and their families. Read more about the TEC program.
TEC Family Center
1211 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-751-1800, ext. 233
Director: Edie Mannion
tec@mhasp.org Services and Programs: MHASP offers over twenty programs designed to provide consumers of mental health services with resources to learn how to care and advocate for themselves from others who have had similar experiences. Most programs at MHASP are either run by consumers and/or include a high percentage of consumers on their staffs.
Visit the Services and Programs section for information on all the services and programs of MHASP.
National Resources
The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse is a consumer-run, national technical assistance center committed to helping mental health consumers improve their lives through self-help and advocacy. Specifically, the Clearinghouse helps consumers plan, provide and evaluate mental health and community support services.
National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
1211 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Telephone: 215-751-1810
Director: Thomas Leibfried
Other Resources on the Internet:
American Psychiatric Association (APA) provides information on mental disorders, the APA and consumer-oriented brochures.
American Psychological Association provides information about journals as well as consumer information, press releases, and professional information related to the psychological profession.
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health provides information on the needs of children and youths with emotional, behavioral or mental disorders and their families.
Internet Mental Health contains basic diagnostic criteria for mental health disorders, research references, brochures, articles and treatment guidelines.
KEN - Knowledge Exchange Network provides information about mental health via this Web site, telephone services, an electronic bulletin board and publications. The site also includes information on the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health and the National Resource Network on Child and Family Mental Health Services.
MadNation features the most thoughtful and creative work of people who experience fears, mood swings, voices, and visions.
MADNESS is a family of electronic services for people who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions and provides mutual support and advocacy.
Mental Health InfoSource provides mental health information for the professional and the lay person. Content includes several publications including, Psychiatric Times, Ask the Expert, Bipolar Disorders Information Center, NARSAD, Healthier You and advocacy information.
Mental Health Net is Dr. John Grohol's latest effort to disseminate information and education online on psychology, psychiatry and mental health topics.
MH Resources Around the World is a mental health resource from the University of Pittsburgh's Health Sciences library system.
NAMI is the Web site of the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill.
Portland Research & Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health provides information on improving services to families whose children have mental, emotional or behavioral disorders.
Psych Central: Dr. John GROHOL's Mental Health Page is a one-stop index for psychology, support, and mental health issues, resources.
Research & Training Center for Children's Mental Health provides information about improving the service delivery system for youths with serious emotional/behavioral disabilities and their families.
Self-Help & Psychology Magazine offers articles on self-help and psychological topics.
For further information contact:
Information and Referral
Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
1211 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Telephone: 215-751-1800, ext. 228
