Web Links

www.mhah.org

The Mental Health Association of the Heartland's mission is to promote the mental health of the community and improve the quality of life of persons with mental illness, through advocacy, education, and support. MHAH promotes mental wellness, improves care and treatment of persons with mental illness, and works to eliminate stigma associated with mental illness through grassroots citizen-action efforts and non-clinical support. MHAH's primary service area is the greater Kansas City metropolitan area and surrounding counties, including Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte, and Ray counties in Missouri, and Johnson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.

www.nmha.org

The National Mental Health Association is the country's oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness. With more than 340 affiliates nationwide, NMHA works to improve the mental health of all Americans, especially the 54 million people with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research and service.

www.nami.org

NAMI is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, autism and pervasive developmental disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and other severe and persistent mental illnesses that affect the brain.

www.nimh.nih.gov

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal government's principal biomedical and behavioral research agency. The NIMH mission is to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior.

www.jccombat.org

At the mandate of the voters of Jackson County, COMBAT a one-quarter of one-percent sales tax that supports a broad based attack on drugs and drug related crimes.