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Consumer/Survivor & Resource Websites Links |
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http://www.corrinawest.com Offering compelling spoken word poetry and motivational speaking to revolutionize mental health outcomes so people recover from lifelong diagnoses. Recruiting and nurturing volunteers for innovative programs that crowd-source community approaches to wellness so people can use connections with friends and their own personal strengths to overcome adversity. www.segalstudios.com Online gallery of Ken Segal, that has offered gallery space to other artists, particularly those with mood disorders.
www.jeromelawrence.net Jerome believes that beauty is to be found everywhere and beautiful art should be available to everyone.
www.meghancaughey.com Meghan is an extremely talented artist who is a consumer/survivor. To quote her “It is the Life Force in me that calls out to be expressed.“
www.mskinnermusic.com/ Mike is a consumer/survivor and a prolific writer/composer who has performed throughout the country. His recordings are available on his web site. Mike beautifully writes about the tragedy of trauma and childhood abuse. Listen to clips of music from his newest album “Waitin’ for a Train” as well as music from his other CD’s.
www.wambui-bahati.com Wambui is a creative and powerful inspirational speaker and entertainer. Her performances focus on her recovery and domestic violence. She has written several books and published a CD that can be obtained through her website. Her latest book “You Don’t Know Crazy” has just been released and is now available at her website above.
Coalition Ingenu works with mental health centers and support systems, homeless shelters, and rehabilitation programs to promote and encourage creativity as a means to psychological and emotional well-being; and to create a complete system for the recognition of creative achievement by self-taught artists marginalized by extraordinary circumstances. www.artheals.org/start.html Arts and Healing Network is an on-line resource celebrating the connection between art and healing. Contains numerous links to Arts Sites across the world.
www.michaelmacklive.com/ Michael Mack was a little boy when his mother suffered her first psychotic break. Michael has performed "Hearing Voices (Speaking in Tongues)" for audiences of all ages portraying his experiences through his mother’s illness.
www.creativeartsconsortium.org The Creative Arts Consortium is a group of San Diego County consumer artists, writers and performers dedicated to recover through the arts.
www.sallyclay.net Zangmo Blue Thundercloud. Sally Clay writes about her journey through mental illness and how spirituality led her on a path to recovery. |
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www.mhabroward.org/9MusesArtCenter.html 9Muses Arts Center. A Drop-In Art Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL. using all art forms as a tool for recovery.
www.artawakenings.org Art Awakenings celebrates the purposeful process of self discovery through creative experience for adults with mental illness.
www.theicarusproject.net The Icarus Project is creating a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of madness and “mental illness” rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework.
www.projectreturn.org Drop-in Center in Tampa, Florida oriented toward the arts. Links to art exhibits, including their own at the Florida Mental Health Institute.
www.intervoiceonline.org/ (This site is submitted from a friend in Britain, Louise Pembroke) If you hear voices (aka auditory hallucinations); if you know someone who does; if you work with people who hear voices; if you want to know about more about this experience. Then this site is for you. Many voices can be unthreatening and even positive. “It’s wrong to turn this into a shameful problem that people either feel they have to deny or to take medication to suppress.”
www.jtpfriends.org/artworks.html Art Works uses the creative arts to encourage wellness and recovery for its participants. An innovative project, it combines four elements - creative arts therapies, vocational training, peer-driven wellness and recovery, and anti-stigma outreach - to improve the lives of the people it serves.
www.oilsbyobletz.com Patricia, a native of Buffalo, NY has in recent years achieved wide media recognition for both her art and her mental health advocacy.
www.artreachheals.org This is probably the oldest consumer arts projects in the country and home to the “Second Step Players” in Norwich, CT
http://www.tunefoolery.org Tunefoolery from Boston, Massachusetts is a unique and courageous group of over 50 musicians with psychiatric disabilities who play and perform music as a way towards healing and recovery. We perform in ensembles and solo acts (folk, classical, blues, rock, showtunes, etc.) mostly for other consumers of mental health services and social agency clients, but also for the general public, bringing hope and inspiration to thousands of other consumers every year. We also visit schools and other institutions where we educate children and adults about the talents and vast capabilities of people with psychiatric disabilities.
www.jtpfriends.org The mission of Art Works at Jefferson Transitional Programs is to educate and to empower individuals with chronic mental illness to use creative arts for wellness and recovery.
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