Greetings - the following are a couple of sites that may be of interest -

Canadian Mental Health Association - http://www.cmha.ca
    The CMHA has been promoting their integrated system called ACCESS - you can
find information on this on their site. The last national conference discussed
this issue last Sept.

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - http://www.nami.org
    This organization has been involved with the PACT (Program for Assertive
Community Treatment) program.

France Kittel wrote:

>          Brussels January 25, 1999
>
> To whom it may  concern,
>
> A team of researchers of two Belgian universities ( Université Libre de
> Bruxelles and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ) are presently  performing a
> study in Belgium in the field of mental  health related to 'the integrated
> service networks or organised delivery systems' ( in french the so-called
> 'circuits de soins en santé mentale).
>
> We would be very interested  and grateful to get information from other
> European countries in relation to this topic : references of articles, books
> or resource persons (*) concerning :
> 1) Recent material related to changes in  mental health policy.
> 2) Written documents relative to experiences of mental health care in the
> community ( facilitating factors,  obstacles)
> 3) Data and figures concerning  the population, beds, psychiatrists,
> psychiatric hospitals,
> public and private mental health instances…..
> 4) Reported experiences with integrated service network or other innovative
> initiatives in
> the mental health sector.
>
> (*) e-mails and internet adressess are most welcome
>
> Many thank in advance to those who could help us.
>
>
> France Kittel, PHD
> ESP ULB Campus Erasme
> CP 596
> route de lennik, 808
> 1070 Bruxelles
> Belgium
> T: +32.2.555.4082
> F: +32.2.555.4049


Peter Jones
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Family Caregiver Network
North Victoria Healthy Communities Coalition
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