Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
COLO through COMZ

• Promoting the profession of mental health counseling
• Providing a system of information exchange among mental health counselors through educational and professional material
• Providing programs to mental health counselors to update and enhance competencies
• Providing public forum for mental health counselors to address the needs of their clients
• Providing an alliance with counselors in other work settings to advance the profession of counseling
• Promoting training standards for mental health counselors
• Promoting scientific research and inquiry into mental concerns
• Promoting liaison on the state and national levels with other mental health groups
• Educating the public about the role of the mental health counselor
• Promoting equitable licensure and certification for counselors at the state and national levels

The research mission of the Center is to arrive at cellular and molecular explanations of development, behavior, and learning that are both intellectually satisfying and relevant to problems of human behavior.

CBI operates concrete projects to assist newly developing human service organizations in developing countries and the post-communist world. It organizes and sponsors professional exchanges in the US, as well as training programs in the Former Soviet Union. It also organizes and sponsors international conferences, and provides professional materials, equipment, and other direct humanitarian aid.

In 1992 CBI established and now co-sponsors the annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution in cooperation with Harmony Institute of Psychotherapy and Counseling of St Petersburg, Russia, occurring each May in St Petersburg and open to participants globally. These multi-disciplinary, practical conferences bring together hundreds of presenters and key participants from around the world for hands-on skills training in conflict resolution.

Current projects under development include:

• An International Mediation and Conflict Resolution Training Project intended to provide intensive formal training experiences for professionals
• A global computer conference to expand networking, processing, and follow-through, exchange training materials, provide support to participants, and in general support the Annual ICR Conference
• Co-sponsoring an International Conference on Global Psychology and Trans-cultural Dialogue with Harmony Institute
• Working to establish locally based professional post-graduate programs in psychology to assist in forming core mentor groups in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
• An e-mail Clinical Consultation Project to offer essential professional consultation in psychotherapy to Russian and Lithuanian practitioners via e-mail

CBI is grounded in the application of humanistic psychology's principles and works to actively network and form strategic alliances with organizations and individuals committed to the recovery of post-communist and developing societies, and in nurturing global relationships as a whole at the grass-roots level.

ISHI is a project of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute focused on:

• People with cancer and health professionals who work with people with life-threatening illnesses
• Children and young adults with learning and social difficulties, and the childcare professionals who work with them
• The global search for a healthy and sustainable future

It holds regional workshops on prevention of mental handicap in developing countries and regional and Intercountry training workshops for trainers of birth attendants on prevention and management of birth asphyxia as an integral component of safe motherhood, and child survival. CAMHADD has introduced the Home-Based Maternal Record to promote safe motherhood and child survival.

The Institute's mission is to work with young people across the Commonwealth so that they grow up inquisitive about other cultures as well as their own, at ease with diversity and confident as global citizens.

The main objective of the CMA is to strengthen the capacity of medical and other health professional associations in developing countries to promote the health and well-being of their communities.

The activitis of the CMA involve women's and youth health, sexual and reproductive health and the ethical and human rights implications of providing health information and services.}

The CIOS is an organization supported primarily through individual and institutional memberships, through publication of The Electronic Journal of Communication, and through sales of software products to assist communication scholarship (e.g., ComIndex).

The CIOS was inaugurated in 1990, being designed to function as a parent organization for the set of online activities that had been initiated in 1986 as the Comserve service. As Comserve services diversified and usership increased it became appropriate to create an organizational structure that would nurture and protect the investments of time, energy, and resources contributed to the project by so many individuals and institutions.

The official publication of CIOS is EJC/REC: The Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronique de Communication.

CCMC operates news.ccmc.org, and online newsroom for journalists that provides background data on topics such as child well-being, safe motherhood, learning disabilities and racism.

Its staff of 65 operates out of regional offices in Bloomfield, Elizabeth, Trenton, Asbury Park, and Collingswood, as well as an administration office in South Orange. Through negotiation, litigation, and advocacy, CHLP removes discrimination, protects rights, and preserves independence and quality of life.

Areas of expertise:

• Public entitlements (Supplemental Security Income, Social Security Disability benefits, county and municipal welfare, emergency assistance, food stamps)
• Medicaid, Medicare and other health insurance benefits, as well as fee-for-service and managed health care disputes
• Housing advocacy (habitability and landlord-tenant issues)
• Consumer law (debt collection, bankruptcy, contracts)
• Family law (child support, visitation, domestic violence)
• Discrimination (housing, employment, education, and public accommodations)
• Barrier-free accessibility
• Advance directives and living wills
• Outreach and support for the frail elderly
• Systems coordination (information, linkage and referral);
• Training, counseling, and technical assistance