Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
MEN- to MENTZ

Menninger provides a breadth of services and programs unavailable in any other setting. Independent national surveys rank these programs for adults, children, and adolescents among the best in the country.

Menninger is an internationally recognized training center for mental health professionals. More than 170 active faculty members teach in the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences, the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis, and other Menninger training programs. Supporting these efforts are a preeminent professional library with over 45,000 books and journals in psychiatry and mental health sciences and videotaping and audiovisual facilities.

• Reconnect the common thread of human experience by challenging and confronting the silence and stigma surrounding mental health and illness
• Facilitate a constructive, critical dialogue on how these issues affect us all
• Build awareness and support through creative expression and community education
• Provide a foundation for empowerment and healing within our campuses and communities

• Improved care and treatment of the mentally ill
• Prevention of mental illness
• Promotion of positive mental health

MHAM defines its critical issues as:

• Establishment of mental health care as a priority of the public
• Funding for and provision of services to all who need them
• Eradication of prejudice and discrimination against the mentally ill
• Elimination of bio-genetic causes of mental illness
• Promotion of emotional well-being as an integral part of personal health maintenance

Over 400 full time and part time employees provide a wide range of services at 45 sites and for more than 8,000 people each year.

MHE-SME is in official relations with the World Health Organisation - Regional Office for Europe, has consultative status with the Council of Europe and has a liaison function for Mental Health Promotion with the European Commission. It collaborates regularly with the work of members of the European Parliament.

Objectives:

• Promote and support MHE-SME member organisations through information, exchange and consultation
• Find partner organisations for collaboration and for exchange of knowledge and expertise and identify good practices
• Support national, regional and local member organisations with their developments and their struggle for acknowledgement and funding
• Provide a forum for exchange and information on health and social policies in the mental health field
• Develop and formulate policies and strategies on mental health issues
• Lobby European institutions in order to raise the profile of mental health
• Increase awareness for mental health and campaign on important mental health issues (hence playing an important role in raising awareness and in combating the taboos, stigma and prejudice associated with mental illness)

MHLG member organizations include:

• The Alliance for Children and Families
• The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
• The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• The American Association of Children's Residential Centers
• The American Association of Pastoral Counselors
• The American Association of Practicing Psychiatrists
• The American Group Psychotherapy Association
• The American Mental Health Counselors Association
• The American Occupational Therapy Association
• The American Psychiatric Association
• The American Psychiatric Nurses Association
• The American Psychoanalytic Association
• The American Psychological Association
• The American Psychotherapy Association
• The Anxiety Disorders Association of America
• The Association for Addiction Professionals
• The Association for the Advancement of Psychology
• The Association for Ambulatory Behavioral Healthcare
• The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
• Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• The Clinical Social Work Federation
• The Clinical Social Work Guild
• The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
• The Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy & Action
• Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems
• The International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses
• NAADAC
• NAMI
• The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
• The National Association for Children's Behavioral Health
• The National Association of Mental Health Planning & Advisory Councils
• The National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems
• The National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems
• The National Association for Rural Mental Health
• The National Mental Health Association
• Suicide Prevention Action Network USA

Objectives:

• Provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of ideas about best ways of ensuring high quality mental health services for people seriously affected by mental illness and disability
• Promote positive attitudes about mental health and mental illness
• Provide a forum for professional development of people associated with mental health services, i.e. an opportunity to present current innovations, strategies, research, policies and future directions
• Provide a forum for professionals, consumers, carers and managers to meet and debate mental health services
• Stimulate debate which will challenge the boundaries of present knowledge and ideas about services for people with mental health disabilities

MHWWB shares knowledge and ideas about psychosocial assistance for natural and man-made disasters, mental health and human rights, and treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation for people with severe mental illness. Its primary focus is primarily, although not solely, on the needs of developing countries. MHWWB encourages family- and community-based, psychosocial approaches to mental health problems, respectful of cultural variation, drawing on local resources and healing traditions, and emphasizing community revitalization and empowerment as well as individual treatment. MHWWB is a loose network of individuals, not a membership organization. It does not provide or organize direct assistance in disaster situations as an organization, although individuals associated with MHWWB have participated in such activities and have provided consultative services with respect to disasters, psychosocial rehabilitation programs, and the like.