Joyful Noise Community -- Advocacy

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• Websites

  • The Alliance For Childhood promotes policies and practices that support children's healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living.  Our public education campaigns bring to light both the promise and the vulnerability of childhood.  They act for the sake of the children themselves and for a more just, democratic, and ecologically responsible future.

  • The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) is a national network of lay people and professionals dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical research practices, to ensure that the human rights, dignity and welfare of human subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks associated with such endeavors.

  • The Bonkers Institue for Nearly Genuine Research has been advancing in the general direction of bona fide science since last Tuesday afternoon.   Battling pseudoscience with pseudoscience, Dr. M.I. Bonkers' latest research findings and recommendations can all be found here.

  • The International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry is dedicated to the critical study of mental health.   This group of professionals and laypeople are determined to find the truth about this confusing and elusive field and take no study or platitude at face value.   In these times where the drug companies control so much of the medical field it's a breath of fresh air to find this group that's based on true integrity.

  • The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, a non-profit, tax exempt organization, has a mission to bring fairness and reason into the administration of legal aspects of the mental health system, particularly unwarranted court ordered psychiatric drugging.

  • MindFreedom International, a non-profit organization, unites 100 grassroots groups and thousands of members to win campaigns for human rights of people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities.  MindFreedom International is where mutual support meets human rights activism... and where democracy meets the mental health system.

  • The Parent Advocate is a small website aimed at helping parents navigate through problems with Child Protective Services.   These people are in California, so I'm not sure how much help they can be for parents in other states, but if you're having trouble with your rights being violated, here's a good place to start.

  • Redleaf Press publishes business resources and other materials for child care professionals.   If you have anything to do with child care, either as a provider or a consumer, these links are vital to your understanding of a complicated and serious business.