Vermont Peer Services
Another Way
Another Way is a community center at 125 Barre Street in Montpelier, Vermont, providing voluntary alternatives to conventional mental health services. Another Way offers a variety of supports and provides resources for people to lead vibrant lives as valued members of an encouraging, inspiring community.
802-229-0920
[email protected]
www.anotherwayvt.org
Mad Freedom Advocates
MadFreedom Advocates is a grassroots, non-profit organization run by and for psychiatric survivors, mad folks, and others marginalized by the mental health system.
https://madfreedomadvocates.org/
NAMI Vermont
NAMI Vermont is the independent state chapter of NAMI, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization, dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness.
Pathways Vermont
Pathways Vermont is a non-profit organization that offers housing, community, and mental health support to people who are homeless or have mental health challenges
https://www.pathwaysvermont.org/
Vermont Support Line
The Pathways Vermont Support Line provides free, confidential support and connection for all Vermonters via phone and text 24/7. The line is staffed by local peers who have been through challenging situations themselves and are available to listen and provide non-judgmental insight. Offering support for a wide range of reasons, from anger over a frustrating day, to feeling alone, to wanting support for substance use or processing medical concerns, or just wanting to chat.
(833) VT – TALKS / (833) 888-2557
Vermont Legal Aid
Vermont Legal Aid provides free legal services for civil matters like eviction, foreclosure, health care, discrimination, and more.
SafeArt
SafeArt is an organization of trauma-informed practitioners who engage creative expression, mindfulness, movement, social action, and connection to the natural world. We promote community wellness, healing and social change in Central Vermont, the Upper Valley and beyond.
National Peer Resources
The National Empowerment Center
A non-profit organization focused on the message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people with lived experience with mental health issues, trauma, and extreme states.
https://www.power2u.org/links.html
National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse
The National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse is a peer-run national technical assistance and resource center that fosters recovery, self-determination, and community inclusion. www.mhselfhelp.org
The Copeland Center
The Copeland Center is recognized as the world’s preeminent organization advancing the knowledge, skills, and values of evidence-based peer recovery practices.
Freedom Center
The Freedom Center is a support and activism community run by and for people labeled with severe ‘mental disorders.’
Fireweed Collective
Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a healing justice and disability justice lens.
https://fireweedcollective.org/
Intervoice
Intervoice (International Hearing Voices Projects) is a UK charity that aims to support the International Hearing Voices Movement by connecting people, sharing ideas, distributing information, highlighting innovative initiatives, encouraging high quality respectful research and promoting its values across the world.
Mad in America
A social justice informed mental health non-profit, focused on media and continuing education related to psychiatric alternatives.
MindFreedom International
MindFreedom International is a nonprofit organization focused on advocacy, public education, mutual support, peaceful protests, lobbying, and organizing for the rights of voluntary mental health service consumers and psychiatric survivors alike.
SAMHSA
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Intentional Peer Support
https://intentionalpeersupport.org/
IPS is a peer support framework created by Sherry Mead, emphasizing lived experience as a means to foster connections, understanding, and positive change within mental health and other support systems.
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
“The mission of the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is to protect and advance the civil rights of adults and children with mental illnesses or developmental disabilities.”
National Association for Rights, Protection & Advocacy
NARPA’s mission is to support people with psychiatric diagnoses to exercise their legal and human rights, with the goals of abolishing forced treatment and ensuring autonomy, dignity and choice.”
PsychRights
The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) is a non-profit public interest law firm whose mission is to mount a strategic litigation campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock in the United States.
Mental health resources for students
http://www.onlinecolleges.net/for-students/mental-health-resources
A resource page focused on supporting college students, with links to designated agencies in various states.
Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline is a trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive.
1 (877) 565-8860
Helpful Definitions and Info
An explanation of mental health Peer Support
https://mhepinc.org/defining-peer-support/
Nothing About Us Without Us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_about_us_without_us
Robert Whitaker’s Books
http://www.robertwhitaker.org/robertwhitaker.org/Home.html
“Robert Whitaker is an American author and journalist who has become known for his extensive research and critical analysis of the modern psychiatric industry.”