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The STAR Center provides Support, Technical Assistance and Resources to assist consumer-operated and consumer-supporter programs in meeting the needs of
under-served populations. Specifically, the STAR Center’s focus areas are cultural competence and diversity in the context of mental health
recovery and consumer self-help and self-empowerment. Although we are a national technical assistance center, the following regions have been designated
as STAR Center focus regions/states: Washington, DC, Rhode Island, and New Mexico.
In pursuit of this mission we offer a broad array of technical assistance to consumer operated and peer run programs, including technical assistance materials
and tools, informative newsletters and listservs, national teleconferences, consumer networking and resource sharing opportunities, and support in the form of
mini-grant awards for creative recovery-based activities, scholarships for Alternatives conferences.
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The STAR Center is funded by a grant from the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
Please visit our partner TA Centers:
- National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center at Mental Health America
- National Empowerment Center
- National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
- The Family Café
With grateful acknowledgment to the federal Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS).
CMHS was established under the 1992 ADAMHA Reorganization Act, Public Law 102-321, which mandates CMHS' leadership role in delivering mental
health services, generating and applying new knowledge, and establishing national mental health policy. CMHS is a component of the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (opens in new window),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (opens in new window).
NEW RECOVERY & WELLNESS RESOURCES FOR MILITARY VETERANS
NATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Recovery Resources
Self Help Affirming Quotes
Integrated Wellness Blog
The STAR Center is very pleased and enthused to invite you to discover and learn from a new and
original short film by Juan Gabriel Vélez Court, a mental health consumer advocate from Puerto Rico,
titled Pensar Eterno (Eternal Thought).
The Consumer Operated Service - Side by Side video is up on SAMHSA’s YouTube Channel. The video discusses the origins and evolution of the evidence based practice of Consumer Operated Services, the proven positive outcomes, and the overall benefits to consumers, supporters, and the overall mental health community.
ALSO ON FACEBOOK:
The STAR Center is committed to providing a space where consumers can share their
personal recovery stories,
recovery-inspired affirmations, messages of self-empowerment and overall encouragement and support.
A fundamental principle of peer support recovery is the mutual sharing, respect, and understanding of diverse personal recovery journeys as well as
the sharing of information, education, and wellness practices and resources.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SHARING YOUR RECOVERY-INSPIRED STORY, AFFIRMING MESSAGE, OR POEM ON OUR WEBSITE PLEASE CONTACT
star@nami.org
NEW PERSONAL RECOVERY STORY!!!
Moving Forward in Recovery - Kyle D. Lloyd
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES KITS SERIES
OTHER EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE KITS:
Treatment of Depression in Older Adults
Permanent Supportive Housing
Illness Management and Recovery
Supported Employment
Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders
AND MORE ...
PERSONAL SPIRITUAL AND RECOVERY WELLNESS JOURNEYS AND PRACTICES FROM STAR SPIRITUALITY WORKSHOP
COMING SOON TO THE STAR CENTER:
Peer Support Skill Training Curriculum and Leader’s Guide:
Responding to Urgent Situations
A tool developed by STAR Center in collaboration with the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation that will help students
and peers develop more effective assessment and safety-action skills for urgent mental health-related situations.
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Find resources by community:
Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders
Native Americans Alaskan Natives
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning & Intersex
Links to resources
in languages other than English.
To hear recordings of past/recent STAR Center Teleconference calls, please visit our Past Events page. In Honor of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month (July)STAR Center Hosted the Following Teleconferences:
Beyond Model Minority: Asian Americans & Mental Health
PRESENTERS:
Trang Eleanor Mac, B.A.
Consumer Advocate & M.S.W. candidate
Marissa Minna Lee, B.A.
Consumer Advocate & M.S.W. candidate
DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this training is to expand cultural competency and social inclusion of Asian American consumers in
mental health, peer support and recovery services. This presentation provides an overview of Asian American history in
mental health models, representations, experiences - both shared and personal, and the power of hope in recovery.
The webinar also explores how in-group and out-of-group Asian American stereotypes, attitudes, and stigmas can
impact self-identity and mental health. Beyond model minority and cultural stereotypes, what other barriers deter Asian
Americans from seeking help? What can we do to empower Asian American consumers as they deal with their own recovery
challenges? Please refer to the audio and presentation slides below and explore these questions and more!
AUDIO
(PLEASE NOTE: echo static in the first few minutes of the recording is resolved before the featured presentation)
SLIDES
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Multicultural Competence, Intense Spiritual Experience, and Mental Health: An Introductory Session on the STAR Center TOOL and REPORT
PRESENTERS:
Rev. Laura L. Mancuso, MS, CRC/CPRP
Interfaith Chaplain
Tool and Report Author
Stephen Kiosk, M.Div., LPC
Ordained Minister
NAMI STAR Center Director
DESCRIPTION:
Based on the STAR Center resource, Multicultural Competence, Intense Spiritual Experience, and Mental Health Tool & Full Length Report, this
session is an introductory session to a series of trainings for individuals, peers, consumers and providers on effectively integrating multicultural
competence, intense spiritual experiences and recovery principles and practices with self-help care, peer support activities and provider program and
services. The tool and full length report can be downloaded for FREE below under "NEW STAR CENTER RESOURCE". Please review the tool and report
before listening to the audio recording. We encourage you to keep an open mind and heart when experiencing this session to explore how spirituality
can play a role in your own mental health recovery as well as those of peers and loved ones.
AUDIO
New STAR CENTER RESOURCE:
CLICK HERE FOR FULL LENGTH REPORT
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New Cultural Competency
Guidebook and Tool
The NAMI STAR Center and the UIC National Research and Training Center
partnered to create a user-friendly guide and tool
to help mental health peer-run programs and self-help groups assess and cultivate their cultural competency.
The tool guides users through a step-by-step process to identify strengths and limitations in meeting the needs of diverse program members.
It overviews how to create action plans to enhance cultural competency in five key organizational areas. The NAMI STAR Center is supported by
CMHS. The UIC NRTC is supported by NIDRR and CMHS.
STAR Center Newsletter
What's inside:
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New Peer Support Resource For United States Military Veterans
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Talk Back to the News
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Recovery and Wellness Toolbox
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Communities Corner: National Resources and Information
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Multicultural/Diversity Calendar
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