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General Resources
StrengthofUs.org: Live a Better Life through Community
StrengthofUs Reaches More Than 1,300 Community Members and Continues to Grow!
StrengthofUs.org is NAMI’s online resource center and social networking website for young adults (ages 18-30) living with mental health conditions. It exists to empower young adults to live out their dreams and goals through peer support and resource sharing. We believe every young adult deserves to feel hopeful, supported and encouraged to love who they are.
We are excited to announce that StrengthofUs.org has empowered more than 1,300 young adult community members since launching in March. The site continues to grow rapidly with inspiring young adults, guest blogs, positive discussions, resources and much more! This is a tribute to all of the thoughtful young adults on the site who have created a welcoming community where users can share their challenges, successes and strategies of living with a mental health condition and, most of all, draw strength from each other.
Please pass the word along and see the attached ad to promote StrengthofUs.org. Join this supportive community today at StrengthofUs.org.
Also, check out our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/StrengthofUs to keep up with the latest happenings on StrengthofUs.org and the latest news about young adults and mental health.
Do you want to help StrengthofUs.org achieve its mission? Email Dana Markey, Program Manager, at danac@nami.org to learn about opportunities to get involved!
Suicide Prevention Resource Directory
The Statewide Office of Suicide Prevention maintains a Florida suicide prevention resource directory on our website. This directory includes Crisis Centers, Suicide Loss Support Groups, and other Mental Health Organizations, Programs, or Coalitions. You can view the directory here.
Trauma-Informed Care Seminar Presentations
Many people have contacted me requesting the PowerPoint presentations that were used at the Building Capacity for Trauma-Informed Care regional seminars.
Thanks to the National Center for Trauma-Informed Care (NCTIC), all of these presentations are available free for download on their site.
There are additional materials on that page as well.
The Advocacy Center Recovery Project
The Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc. and the Research Library at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida have joined together to create a collection of materials available to individuals with psychiatric disabilities and their supporters within the state of Florida. The material in the collection was selected with the assistance of the Florida Peer Network. The core collection, funded by money from the Advocacy Center’s Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illnesses (PAIMI) grant from SAMHSA, has a variety of first-person accounts, handbooks, reference works, in print and media formats. The Advocacy Center and the Institute Research Library are also working together to get information out to the larger mental health community via peer listservs, distribution lists, and websites.
Campaign for Mental Health Recovery:
“What a Difference a Friend Makes”
One of the most important things to remember about mental illness is this: people can and do recover. If you have a friend with mental illness, or if you have a mental illness yourself, remember that recovery is possible. Reach out to those around you with compassion, empathy, and understanding.
Advance Directives
Florida law supports the right of any person to decide what medical and mental health treatment he or she will receive, unless the person is determined by a judge or doctor to lack the competence to make those decisions.
Voting is one of our most important privileges!!
Are you registered? Click Here!
A Free Place to List & Find Affordable Housing in Florida
Florida Housing Search currently provides detailed information on affordable rental housing that has been financed by Florida Housing Finance Corporation and/or counties choosing to participate in the service. Visit their site for more information.
Need Help Accessing your Medication through Medicaid and Medicare? Read these documents! Help is available!
- Medicaid Drug Access Helpline - English (PDF, 685k) and Spanish (PDF, 186k)
- Medicare Part D Prescription Helpline - English (PDF, 433k) and Spanish (PDF, 135k)
- Prescription Q & A - English (PDF, 138k) and Spanish (PDF, 92k)
Order Meds at a Discount with the
Florida Discount Drug Card
The Florida Discount Drug Card Program is available for people at 300% of Federal Poverty Level or lower. It is especially helpful for people in the Medicare Part D donut hole.
This website is funded in part by the Disability Rights Florida,
through the PAIMI grant from SAMHSA.
| Florida Peer Network, Inc. Office: 850-922-0090 Email: info@floridapeernetwork.org |
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