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The STAR Center provides Support, Technical Assistance and Resources to assist consumer-operated and consumer-helper programs in meeting the needs of under-served populations.

According to the U.S. Surgeon General's report, Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity 2001, mental health service disparities exist within the Hispanic American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, African American, Native American and Alaskan Native communities.

The STAR Center recognizes that these same disparities, within the communities identified by the report, also exist amongst consumer-operated and consumer-helper programs. The STAR Center works to eliminate these disparities so that the under-served communities receive equal access, support to recovery oriented services and self-help that are culturally competent, thus promoting wellness and inspiring hope.

In pursuit of this mission we offer a broad array of technical assistance to consumer operated and peer run programs, leadership trainings, national teleconferences, consumer scholarships-for attendance to the annual Alternatives Conference, national identification of culturally competent consumer operated programs-as part of our Consumer Operated Service Identifier or COSI Project, and an online Cultural Resource Directory.

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.

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meet the staff

Jim McNulty is Director of the STAR Center.

Most of Jim's early life was spent in Central and South America, later in Europe, which is where he first began to experience symptoms of mental illness. The experience of living as a person who is a cultural and linguistic minority, as well as the beginnings of mental illness convinced him of the need for majority culture to become far more aware of the needs of minorities.  For the last 20 years Jim has been a leader in the Recovery movement, as well as in NAMI.  He is committed to the STAR Center’s mission of embedding cultural competence and fluency into both the mental health treatment system, and the Advocacy and Recovery movements.




Carmen Argueta
is Project Coordinator of the STAR Center

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We want to hear from you! Your questions, comments and concerns are important to us and we will do our best to address them in a timely fashion.

STAR Center
Colonial Place Three
2107 Wilson Blvd., Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22201-3042
star@nami.org
Toll-Free: (866) 537-STAR (7827)
Fax: (703) 600-1112

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