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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.
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.
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
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).
SAMHSA's Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity and
Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health
(ADS Center)
"The Power of the Media and Its Impact on Mental Health Recovery"
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern Time
March 26, 2010
The teleconference will provide education and awareness strategies for individuals and organizations to use with the media to promote accurate depictions of people with mental health problems.
Registration closes at 5 p.m. on Friday, March 19th
The 2010 American College of Mental Health Administration Summit
A New Era in Behavioral Health: Charting the Course
March 24 - 26, 2010
Santa Fe, NM
The 2010 Summit emphasizes engagement, participation, and cultivation of ideas from ACMHA members and other behavioral health leaders in attendance. Essential information presented by informed, recognized speakers will be balanced with group dialogue, spirited discussions, and “course-charting” activities.
SAMHSA 10x10 Wellness Campaign Training Teleconference:
Focus on Wellness to Increase Life Expectancy and Healthy
Living of Individuals with Mental Health Problems
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Time:
3:00 - 4:30 pm Eastern Time
What are the implications of the findings of higher rates of illness and shorter life spans among people with mental health problems than among the general public, and how can the mental health community promote wellness?
Registration will close at 5:00 p.m., ET, on Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Addressing Imbalances: Promoting Equity in Mental Health
November 17 - 19, 2010
Washington, DC
Recent News:
Healing Our Hearts: Honoring our Black Ancestors and Ourselves
During the month of February, we acknowledge and honor Black History Month!
Black History Month shares the same timeframe with Valentine’s Day which can, perhaps, be seen to invite us to revisit, review, and appreciate our lives and valued relationships with a genuine kind of love for ourselves and others.
Please join us as we explore ways of creating a wellness toolbox that includes approaches from multiple cultures, with information and discussion that recognizes some time-honored practices and traditions. You are invited to take part in sharing, discussing, and learning together as we search for strategies to develop a personal wellness toolbox to identify what can work for us right now.
Health and Wellness Screening Report
Final report from the two-day Health & Wellness Fair, Alternatives 2009, Omaha, Nebraska
Free podcasts and slides available from the UIC Self-Determination Summit
STAR Center creates Technical Assistance Request Form
STAR Center Newsletter
What's inside:
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When Things Get Darker: Winter Light and the Holiday Season
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Upcoming Events
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Talk Back to the News
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Multicultural/Diversity Calendar
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Recovery and Wellness Toolbox: Self-Determination Tools at the National Research and Training Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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Communities Corner: National Resources and Information
Sign up to receive the STAR Center's
quarterly newsletter, Recovering Together, via email. Or read
the newsletter online in the Recovering
Together archive.
Find resources by community:
Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders
Native Americans Alaskan Natives
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning & Intersex
Coming soon:
Youth and Students
Veterans
Older Americans
Links to resources in languages
other than English.
STAR Center Teleconferences
Multicultural Wellness, the Holidays, and You: Creating New Meaning and Ways to Celebrate
This session will provide an opportunity to discuss and share about cultural celebrations, attitudes, and rituals that can help to lessen distress that can arise, and will invite participants to claim new meaning and adopt new ways of celebrating that tap into creative, affirming, and recovery/wellness-oriented thinking.
Date: December 16, 2009, 5:00 pm ET
Focus Now! Life is Worth Living: How You Can Change Your View And Change Your Life
This session will provide information on the theory behind what “Salutogenesis” is. We will discuss practical strategies using Salutogenesis to bring about mental health, wellness and resiliency and how the Prosumer Program puts the theory into practice for recovery and wellness
Date: September 22, 2009, 5:00 pm ET
Visit our event archive for audio
files, transcripts, and reports on previous STAR Center events.
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