Sample Job Description
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BRSS TACS – SAMHSA
Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) advances effective recovery supports and services for people with mental or substance use disorders and their families.
Look Up Indiana – Healing our community with Hope
Good for articles on MH diagnosis as well as chat line and crisis line
Mental Health Front Door
Copeland Center
What is WRAP?
Family and Social Services Administration
Financial assistance such as TANF and SNAP.
Next Level Recovery
United Way Allen County 211
Referral assistance for housing, shelter, food, legal aid, clothing, education, counseling, utility assistance, health care, and transportation.
Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale
Good resources for peer support specialists
In Mood Rings
Online support community for mood disorders & substance abuse – a virtual peer support!
LGBT National Help Center
Organization that provides vital peer-support, community connections and resource information to people with questions regarding sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
Connections
A resource which connects suicidal individuals with recovery specialists who have undergone similar feelings and situations.
Doors to Wellbeing
A group focused on helping youth find the resources necessary for recovery and forge new paths for themselves and others in the community.
Talking to Your Kids About Drug and Alcohol Abuse
A useful guide on how parents and guardians can discuss the dangers of substance abuse with their children without alienating them.
Intervention eBook
A comprehensive booklet which discusses how parents and guardians can talk to their children about drinking or doing drugs and find them help.
Returning to Work After Substance Abuse: What Employers Can Do for Their Employees
An article on how employers can best make their employees returning from rehab more comfortable in the work environment.
Start Your Recovery
A website that educates friends and families how they can help people dealing with substance abuse. Also shows available resources in a given area.
Principles of Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Research-Based Guide
INDY REC
Indy REC will be a safe space for anyone who is looking for, or in recovery. We will offer individual recovery coaching sessions, group recovery sessions, activities, sober social activities, or just come and hang out.
For more information about Indy REC please see the flyer below, or contact Rebekah Gorrell (rgorrell@mhai.net) or Heather Rodriguez (hrodriguez@mhai.net).
IRN App
RehabCenters.org
Rehab-Centers.org is an organization that provides an invaluable service to addicts and their families. We believe that every person deserves to have a drug-free and alcohol-free future.
Look Up Indiana – Healing our community with Hope
Good for articles on MH diagnosis as well as chat line and crisis line
Peer Support Developing & Facilitating Self-Help Groups
Helpful article for developing and facilitating support groups.
Peer Support and Social Inclusion – SAMHSA
Recovery and Recovery Support – SAMHSA
Good article from SAMHSA defining recovery.
What is a Peer – Mental Health America
Peer Support – Get the Facts – Mental Health America
Know The Warning Signs
10 common warning signs of mental health conditions in teens and young adults
Recovery Month
Every September, SAMHSA sponsors Recovery Month to increase awareness and understanding of mental and substance use disorders and celebrate the people who recover.
LGBTQ Nation
LGBTQ Nation is an online news magazine, reporting on issues relevant to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community.
Mad in America
Blog about a woman, Sara Yelich-Koth, who overcame schizophrenia. Sara Yelich-Koth is a writer, speaker, social worker and mental illness advocate. She created Schizophrenia Deconstructed as a presentation in 2014. She also wrote an autobiography about schizophrenia. Sara has a degree in philosophy and studied master’s level counseling psychology.
NAMI
Blogs on different mental health issues.
