http://whydisabilitymatters.org/disability-and-healing/
Donna Fado Ivery presented at the joint DMC/AMD meeting in Dallas in 2015. Her new CD, Dancing Through the Pain, will be available on Sept. 1.
http://adventuresinhealing.com/store/#dvd
What do clergy need for positive mental health?
https://carducc.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/what-do-clergy-need-for-positive-mental-health/
Newsletter from Mental Health Ministries
http://www.mentalhealthministries.net/spotlights/index.html
Mental health and poverty
http://www.newsweek.com/what-governments-can-do-help-mental-health-487144
UMCom: Breaking the taboo
http://www.umcom.org/learn/breaking-the-taboo-how-the-church-can-help-people-with-mental-illness
Pew Trust report: care for lifetime
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2016/08/10/what-happens-to-developmentally-disabled-as-parents-age-die
Understanding and support for trauma victims
http://network.crcna.org/safe-church/understanding-and-supporting-survivors-trauma
Advocacy Alerts
DREDF on ADA Education and Reform bill
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=d8372142072c8ce7f2e90e349&id=70afd44c28
Disability advocacy: NAMI presents the platforms of the two major parties on mental health matters.
http://www.nami.org/About-NAMI/NAMI-News/2016-Election-Platforms
Disability advocacy: MHA presents "vote with mental health in mind"
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/vote16
Group calls for universal health care. "The United Methodist Church therefore affirms in our Social Principles (¶ 162V) health care as a basic human right and affirms the duty of government to assure health care for all."
http://www.occupy.com/article/us-doctors-call-universal-healthcare-abolish-insurance-companies#sthash.nXn64lAk.dpbs
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