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| US Journal Training
3201 SW 15th Street
Deerfield Beach, FL 33442
800/851-9100
954/360-0909
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| US Journal Training and the Institute for Integral Development offers continuing professional education in addictions, mental health, education and related helping professions. It was founded in 1977. The Institute has provided over 325 seminars and conferences.
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Uganda National Psychological Association
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Ukrainian Psychiatric Association
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| Ukrainian Psychiatric Association
c/o Semyon Gluzman, MD
Geroev Stalingrada 27A
Apt 621
Kiev 252210
Ukraine
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| UNI/CARE Systems, Inc
2 North Tamiami Trail
Suite 508
Sarasota, FL 34236
941/954-3403
941/954-3717 fax
sales@unicaresys.com
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| UNI/CARE Systems develops software for management of behavioral healthcare orgnizations.
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Union of Estonian Psychologists
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Union Internationale Contre le Cancer [UICC]
(International Union Against Cancer)
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| Union Internationale Contre le Cancer
3 rue de Conseil-General
1205 Geneva
Switzerland
+41/22/809 18 11
+41/22/809 18 10 fax
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| Unite For Sight
31 Brookwood Drive
Newtown, CT 06470
ufs@uniteforsight.org
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| Unite For Sight is an international non-profit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. It was founded in 2000. Unite for Sight also sponsors a Global Health conference to develop innovative healthcare solutions.
More than 4,000 volunteers work in ninety chapters established at universities, medical schools, corporations, high schools, and in communities throughout the world. Additionally, Volunteer Teams are sent to 25 countries to provide eye care and eye health education programs to medically underserved communities.
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| United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
2nd Floor, Edward House
2 Wakley Street
London, EC1V 7LT
United Kingdom
+44/20/7014 9955
+44/20/7014 9977 fax
info@psychotherapy.org.uk
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| The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy [UKCP] is comprised of the great majority of reputable psychotherapy organizations in the UK. It promotes training requirements and ethical guidelines and publishes an annual registry of over 4800 qualifying psychotherapists, all of whom belong to one of the UKCP's 87 member organizations.
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| The UK Institute for Health Informatics [UKIHI] coordinates a group of broadly based regional focal Institutes for Healthcare Informatics, committed to work together as a national Institute for Health Informatics.
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| The UK Institute of Health Informatics is the hub for regional groupings of academic, clinical and commercial organizations.
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| UK Mental Health Research Network
PO Box 77
Institute of Psychiatry
Kings College London
De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
UK
+44/20/7848 0699
+44/20/7848 0696 fax
mhrn@iop.kcl.ac.uk
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| The UK Mental Health Research Network [MHRN] is funded by the Department of Health, and has been established to provide the National Health Service [NHS] infrastructure to support both non-commercial and commercial large scale research in mental health, including clinical trials.
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| The United Kingdom Psychiatric Pharmacy Group [UKPPG] exists to ensure best treatment with medicines for people with mental health needs and their carers. This is being achieved by developing educational facilities and accreditation for pharmacists, providing support through local and national resources and providing a network of support for psychiatric pharmacists. Promoting the profile of the speciality of psychiatric pharmacy is also an essential feature of the group's work.
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| United Kingdom Society for the Study of Dissociation
26 Princes Street
Norwich, NR3 1AE
United Kingdom
+44/7804/226948
info@ukssd.org
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| United Kingdom Society for the Study of Dissociation [UKSSD] is a non-profit Component Society of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation [ISSD].
Objectives:
- Promote research and training in the identification and treatment of dissociative disorders
- Provide professional and public education about dissociative disorders
- Support national communication and cooperation among clinicians and investigators working in the field of dissociation
- Promote the development of local groups for study, education and referral
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| UK Society for the Study of Dissociation
26 Princes Street
Norwich, NR3 1AE
UK
+44/7/804 226948
information@ukssd.org
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| The non-profit UK Society for the Study of Dissociation [UKSSD] is a Component Society of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation [ISSD].
Objectives:
- Promote research and training in the identification and treatment of dissociative disorders
- Provide professional and public education about dissociative disorders
- Support national communication and cooperation among clinicians and investigators working in the field of dissociation
- Promote the development of local groups for study, education and referral
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| UK Telemedicine Association
Britannia House
11 High Street
Cowbridge
Vale of Glamorgan CF71 7AP
United Kingdom
monica@denwales.freeserve.co.uk
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| The UK Telemedicine Association are a professional organization that promotes the development of telemedicine and telecare in the United Kingdom.
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| Founded in 1946, UNICEF advocates and works for the protection of children's rights, to help the young meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.
As the only organization of the United Nations dedicated exclusively to children, UNICEF works with other United Nations bodies, governments and non-governmental organizations [NGOs] to lighten children's loads through community-based services in primary health care, basic education, and safe water and sanitation in developing countries.
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| UNESCO
7, Place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris 07 SP
France
bpiweb@unesco.org
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| T]he United Nationa Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO], founded in 1945, works as a laboratory of ideas and a standard-setter to forge universal agreements on emerging ethical issues. UNESCO also serves as a clearinghouse — that disseminates and shares information and knowledge — while helping Member States to build their human and institutional capacities in diverse fields.
UNESCO promotes international co-operation among its 190 Member States and six Associate Members in the fields of education, science, culture and communication.
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United Parkinson Foundation
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| United Parkinson Foundation
833 West Washington
Chicago, IL 60607
312/733-1893
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| United States Association for Body Psychotherapy
8639 B 16th Street
Suite 119
Silver Spring, MD 20910
202/466-1619
212/987-4969 fax
usabp@usabp.org
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| Founded in 1996, the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy [USABP] is a practitioner-centered non-profit association, created and staffed by practitioners and committed to the goals of organizing, representing and shaping the emerging profession of Body Psychotherapy in the US.
Body Psychotherapy is an expansive field that draws from many eras and traditions; from the ancient traditions of intuitive and natural healing, from the dynamic, somatic psychotherapies developed by Reich among others, from the American Dance Therapy tradition, from the psychoanalytic field and from the more modern traditions of Humanistic, Existential, and Phenonenological psychology.
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| Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program
1401 Constitution Avenue, NW
Room 4898
Washington, DC 20230
202/4827002
tiiap@ntia.doc.gov
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| The National Telecommunications and Information Administration [NTIA], an agency of the US Department of Commerce, is the Executive Branch's principal voice on domestic and international telecommunications and information technology issues. NTIA works to spur innovation, encourage competition, help create jobs and provide consumers with more choices and better quality telecommunications products and services at lower prices.
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| Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program
1401 Constitution Avenue, NW
Room 4096
Washington, DC 20230
202/4822048
202/5015136 fax
tiiap@ntia.doc.gov
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| The Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program [TIIAP] promotes the widespread availability and use of advanced telecommunications technologies in the public and non-profit sectors. As part of the Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), TIIAP gives grants for model projects demonstrating innovative uses of network technology. TIIAP evaluates and actively shares the lessons learned from these projects to ensure the benefits are broadly distributed across the country, especially in rural and underserved communities.
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| Navy Psychiatry exists to provide the best possible psychiatric care to active duty Sailors and Marines during peacetime and contingency operations. Active duty psychiatrists are also called upon to provide accurate counsel and guidance to line commands regarding the medical readiness and psychological fitness of their troops. In times of disaster Navy Psychiatry provides critical incident stress debriefing through the Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team [SPRINT] during peace time or through Combat Stress Centers during armed conflict. The Navy operates three psychiatry training programs to provide state-of-the-art graduate medical education. When space and resources are available, Navy Psychiatry monitors or provides psychiatric care to other military beneficiaries.
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| Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC/MRMC)
BLDG 1054
Fort Detrick, MD 21702
301/619-2413
301/619-7967
301/619-7968 fax
debernardis@tatrc.org
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| The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center [TATRC] was ounded in 1993 as the Medical Advanced Technology Management Office [MATM0]. In addition to developing many telemedicine applications, TATRC has backed the formation of other organizations in the telemedicine field. By exploring new developments, TATRC strives to improve health care for the US Armed Forces, their families and the public sector, partners with numerous universities, commercial enterprises, and other federal agencies, supports over 500 ongoing research projects and envisions creation of opportunities for technology transfer to the public sector as well as the battlefield,
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| Violence Against Women Office
US Department of Justice
810 Seventh Street, NW
Room 6201
Washington, DC 20001
202/307-6026
202/307-3911 fax
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| MIRECC
10 North Greene Street
Suite 6A
Baltimore, MD 21201
410/605-7451
410/605-7739 fax
Mary.Lupi@med.va.gov
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| The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Capitol Health Care Network Mental Illness Research Education Clinical Center [VISN5 MIRECC] is part of a nationwide program funded by Congress to imrove health care and mental health care for veterans with mental illness. The research, educational activities, and clinical demonstration projects of the VISN5 MIRECC are specifically focused on schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses.
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| United States Distance Learning Association
c/o Patrick S Portway, Executive Director
Applied Business teleCommunications
800/829-3400
714/513-8400
714/513-8611 fax
pportway@usdla.org
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| The United States Distance Learning Association is a non-profit association formed in 1987. The association's purpose is to promote the development and application of distance learning for education and training. The constitutents served include K through 12 education, higher education, continuing education, corporate training, and military and government training.
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| United States Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460
202/260-2090
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| Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs
4350 East West Highway
Suite 200 West
Bethesda, MD 20814
301/594-4004
301/594-5980 fax
jnestor@osophs.dhhs.gov
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| The Adolescent Family Life [AFL] program, administered by the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs [OAPP] was enacted in 1981 to fund:
- Care demonstration projects
- Prevention demonstration projects
- Joint prevention and care demonstration projects
- Research projects
Approximately 262 care and prevention demonstration projects and 65 research projects have been supported by the program since its inception. Care demonstration projects serve pregnant adolescents, adolescent parents, their infants, male partners and their families.
AFL care projects are required to provide comprehensive health, education, and social services, either directly or through partnerships with other community agencies, and to evaluate new approaches for implementation of these services.
AFL care projects are based within a variety of settings such as universities, hospitals, schools, public health departments or community agencies. Many provide home visiting services and all have partnerships with diverse community agencies.
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| United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Assocation
601 Global Way
Suite 106
Linthicum MD 21090
410/789-7054
410/789-7675 fax
410/789-7682 TDD
info@uspra.org
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| Founded in 1976 as the International Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services [IAPSRS], the re-named United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Assocation [USPRA] brings together agencies, practitioners, families and consumers of psychosocial rehabilitation services. It acts as an advocate for community-oriented psychosocial rehabilitation.
The official publication of USPRA is Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.
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| International Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services [IAPSRS]
Virginia Chapter
c/o Dan Sylvester, CPRP
610/279-4400
dansylvesterexd@comcast.net
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| The mission of Virginia USPRA is to provide leadership in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation for persons living with a serious mental illness by promoting recovery, educating consumers, family members and practitioners, as well as being an advocate for community programs that follow the core principles of psychiatric rehabilitation and who demonstrate effective outcomes.
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United States Public Health Services
Office on Women's Health
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| US Public Health Services' Office on Women's Health
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20201
202/690-7650
202/690-7172
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Universal Scientific Office
