Consumer Advocacy Resources and Links
Resources - English
- Client Rights in Community Services
- Community Client Rights Advocates
- Crisis Hotlines
- Ohio Department of Mental Health State Hospital Clients Rights Book
- Ohio Department of Mental Health State Hospital Clients Rights Book (Large print)
- Regional Psychiatric Hospital Recovery and Rights Advocates
- Patient Medication Assistance Guide
- Advocacy Curriculum for Everyone: An Overview of Ohio's Mental Health System
- Advocacy Curriculum for Everyone: The Grievance Process in Ohio's Public Mental Health System
- ODMH Office of Community Supports and Clients Rights list of resource organizations
- OhioCARES list of key contacts for veterans
- Network of Care (Mental Health and Other Useful Information Available in Multiple Languages Including ASL)
Resources - Culturally diverse
- Client Rights in Community Services (Spanish)
- Ohio Department of Mental Health State Hospital Clients Rights Book (Spanish)
- Mental Health Guide (Spanish)
- Advocacy Curriculum for Everyone: The Grievance Process In Ohio's Public Mental Health System (Spanish)
- "How to Navigate Social Services in Ohio" Bi-lingual Guide for Somali Community (Somali)
- Mental Health Guide (Somali)
- Ohio Department of Mental Health State Hospital Clients Rights Book (Somali)
- Advocacy Curriculum for Everyone: The Grievance Process In Ohio's Public Mental Health System (Somali)
- Network of Care (Mental Health and Other Useful Information Available in Multiple Languages Including ASL)
- It's Your Right: Rights in the Mental Health System for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (ASL): CSD of Ohio – Available for loan on VHS through the Ohio Department of Mental Health: Kathryn Remer (614)-644-5297
Links
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) - Ohio
- Local NAMI Chapters in Ohio
- Mental Health America of Franklin County
- Ohio Legal Rights Service
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- Advocacy Unlimited
- Capital Law School Center for Dispute Resolution
- Mental Health Matters
- Your Mental Health Advocacy
- Stamp Out Stigma
- Self Advocates Becoming Empowered
- HIPAA Basics Fact Sheet
- National Disability Rights Network
- National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy
