Mental Illness, Commission on
Mission Statement
- To educate the clergy and laity that the mentally ill are in our pews. They are our children, our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles.
- To advocate for justice in the courts, to support community based mental health facilities and the national anti-stigma program sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services, utilizing all the programs available on the world wide web.
Christ healed everyone without discrimination. We have an opportunity to offer healing to the lepers of the twenty-first century in the name of Christ. Now is the time to offer freedom "to the least of these." Mental illness is a disease just like any other disease that can be treated. Recovery is a real possiblity with today's medications. Faith plays a huge role in the recovery process and acceptance in the faith community is crucial to the process.
Links
We collaborate with all mental health organizations and we offer to you these links on the web, available 24/7.
United States Department of Health and Human Service
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
www.samhsa.gov
Mental Health America
www.mentalhealthamerica.net
National Alliance on Mental Illness
www.nami.org
Faithnet is NAMI's outreach to all faith communities
www.faithnet.nami.org
Episcopal Mental Illness Network
www.eminnews.org
Suicide Prevention Action Network (SPAN)
www.spanusa.org
For your reading:
Darkness is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness by Kathryn Green-McCreight
A new book written by an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Connecticut that lives with mental illness
Available at the publisher, www.brazospress.com