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PUBLICATIONS & FACT SHEETS

Helping Yourself Through Family Court Proceedings: A Guide For Parents With Psychiatric Disabilities - Updated in the fall of 2001, this guide contains suggestions from parents with psychiatric disabilities, service providers, and representatives of Family Courts on how you can help yourself and your children during any Family Court proceedings involving custody. The print version is also available by request.

Working with Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities and Their Children: A Family-Centered Approach - The purpose of this manual is to help providers understand the needs of parents with psychiatric disabilities and to give them an educational tool to use in engaging others and in planning enhancement of services to meeting the needs of parents with psychiatric disabilities.

Children's Annotated Bibliography - Resources for children and young teens living
with people with psychiatric disorders, compiled by Joanne Riebschleger, Ph.D., MSW and updated in June 2002.

MHANYS Fact Sheets

• Postpartum Depression
• When You Need to File a Complaint Against a Mental Health Care Provider or Facility

Strengthening Families Fact Sheets from the National Mental Health Assocation
When a Parent Has a Mental Illness:

• Issues And Challenges (PDF format)
• Child Custody Issues (PDF format)
• From Risk To Resiliency: Protective Factors For Children (PDF format)
• Serious Mental Illness And Parenting (PDF format)
• Interventions And Services For Families (PDF format)
• The Invisible Children's Project: An Example Of A Promising Program (PDF format)

Community Connections - the tri-annual newsletter of MHANYS' Anti-Discrimination Initiative

Mental Health Update - MHANYS's initiatives, public policy statements, news, and announcements (weekly while NYS Legislature is in session, biweekly otherwise)

For further information, contact Lorraine McMullin at MHANYS at (518) 434-0439 ext. 211, or e-mail pwpd@mhanys.org.