SoPSS: Social Policy and Behavioral Health Administration

Strives to be the go-to organization for licensed clinical mental health counselors for advocacy, education, leadership, and collaboration.

Provides access to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations for businesses and State and local governments, technical assistance materials, and more.

Founded in 1972 by a group of committed lawyers and professionals in mental health and mental disabilities. Leads the way in efforts to define and advance the rights of people with mental disabilities in many aspects of their lives.

Policy brief provides an update to a previously published brief on Mental Health Parity, now with a focus on enforcement.

Promotes the understanding, use and development of online communication, information and technology for the international mental health community.

Provides one-stop access to U.S. government mental health and mental health problems information.

Nation's leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of those living with mental illness and to promoting the overall mental health of all Americans.

There are numerous aspects of mental health and substance abuse that garner attention from state policymakers. Resources include reports and articles related to these subjects.

Provided by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

Federal law that generally prevents group health plans and health insurance issuers that provide mental health or substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits from imposing less favorable benefit limitations on those benefits than on medical/surgical benefits.

“Think-Tank” founded in 2011 to provide unbiased and easy-to-access information to the media and policy-makers about care and treatment of people with serious and persistent mental illness.

Nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

Provides support, policy development, knowledge products, and technical assistance to the nation’s State-based mental health planning and advisory councils.

Nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization with a goal to develop and promote private, free-market alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector.

Part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services dedicated to transforming the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.

Agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation.

Contains a collection of scientifically-based resources for a broad range of audiences, including Treatment Improvement Protocols, toolkits, resource guides, clinical practice guidelines, and other science-based resources.

The U.S. government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.

Resources include the WHO QualityRights tool kit which provides countries with practical information and tools for assessing and improving quality and human rights standards in mental health and social care facilities.

Envisions a world in which mental health is a priority for all people. Public policies and programs reflect the crucial importance of mental health in the lives of individuals.

Part of the United Nations, WHO is a leading international authority on health issues in the developed and developing world. Find publications, programs, data and statistics for international health topics and emerging health care issues.