American Psychiatric Association

The American Psychiatric Association is an organization of psychiatrists working together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental illness, including substance use disorders. It is the voice and conscience of modern psychiatry. Its vision is a society that has available, accessible quality psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.
 

Bazelon Center

Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
 

Bazelon Center Psychiatric Advance Directives Information

Psychiatric advance directives can be used to plan for the possibility that someone may lose capacity to give or withhold informed consent to treatment during acute episodes of psychiatric illness.
 

Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation

The Center is a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities.
 

Center for Workplace Mental Health

A program of the American Psychiatric Foundation that advances effective employer approaches to mental health by combining the knowledge and experience of the American Psychiatric Association and their employer partners. This link goes to the employee resources page.
 

Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance West Virginia

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is the leading patient-directed national organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses. The organization fosters an environment of understanding about the impact and management of these life-threatening illnesses by providing up-to-date, scientifically based tools and information written in language the general public can understand. DBSA supports research to promote more timely diagnosis, develop more effective and tolerable treatments, and discover a cure.
 

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

Improving the lives of people living with mood disorders.
 

Depression, PTSD, & Other Mental Health Conditions in the Workplace: Your Legal Rights

From the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
 

Legal Aid of West Virginia's Family, Advocacy, Support, and Training (FAST) Program

The goal of the Family, Advocacy, Support, and Training (FAST) program is to develop a statewide parent-to-parent and youth support network that will empower families to participate in planning, management, and evaluation of their child's treatment.
 

Mental Health America

We are the country's leading nonprofit dedicated to helping ALL people live mentally healthier lives.
 

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Support, Education, Advocacy, and Research for persons with mental illness and their families.
 

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Greater Wheeling WV

The families and members of NAMI Greater Wheeling are here to help! We offer understanding to anyone concerned about mental illnesses and the treatment of mental illness.
 

National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives

Psychiatric advance directives are relatively new legal instruments that may be used to document a competent person's specific instructions or preferences regarding future mental health treatment.
 

Quiet Minds

Our goal is to facilitate early identification and treatment of psychosis in a collaborative, recovery-oriented approach involving individuals experiencing first episode psychosis, therefore reduce the disruption to the young person’s functioning and psychosocial development.
 

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight webpage about the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.
 

The Mental Health Provider's Role in a Client's Request for a Reasonable Accommodation at Work 

From the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
 

The Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities

Users will be able to quickly identify the Collaborative?s past and current research activities, ongoing training and related knowledge development activities, and the growing number of journal articles, monographs, toolkits, and exemplary program descriptions that can be helpful to users seeking to expand their understanding and utilization of community integration principles and practices.
 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) homepage.
 

West Virginia Behavioral Health Planning Council

The primary purpose of the WVBHPC is to advocate for and evaluate the provision of community-based behavioral health services.
 

West Virginia Behavioral Health Providers Association

The Association's members are behavioral healthcare provider organizations serving recipients in each of the State's fifty-five counties. We are committed to creating and sustaining healthy and secure communities. Vital to this commitment is a network of organizations and advocates promoting services of unparalleled value.
 

WV Behavioral Health Services Map

To find available behavioral health services in any county in WV, see the comprehensive behavioral health centers' service areas on this map.