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Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters separated from Alcoholics Anonymous in 1954. Al-Anon is a self-help fellowship of men, women and children affected by the compulsive drinking of a family member or friend. Alateen, a part of Al-Anon Family Groups, helps teenage sons and daughters of alcoholics to cope with problems in their homes. These groups provide direct services to individuals by giving comfort, hope, and friendship to the family and friends of alcoholics, by providing information on alcoholism and sharing experience in coping with the disease, and by providing the opportunity to learn to grow spiritually.

Al-Anon publishes booklets and pamphlets, produces public service announcements for radio and television, cooperates with alcoholism treatment programs in supporting patients' families and friends and provides the public and professionals with information about their services.

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Al Noor Hospital is a Medical-Surgical facility created in 1985. The hospital is one of the divisions of Al Noor Medical Company whose main business is to promote health awareness and to provide health care services to the multicultural enviroment of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and surrounding countries.

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The Alabama Alliance for the Mentally Ill [AMI] is affiliated with the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill [NAMI].

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The Alabama Psychological Association [aPA] is affiliated with the American Psychological Association [APA].

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The Alabama Psychiatry Society is a district branch of the American Psychiatric Association.

The Alaska Alliance for the Mentally Ill [AMI] is affiliated with the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill [NAMI].

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The Alaska Psychological Association [AK-PA], established in 1963, is affiliated with the American Psychological Association.

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The Alaska Psychiatric Association [AkPA] is a district branch of the American Psychiatric Association.

The Alaska Telemedicine Project [ATP] is a consortium of Alaska health care providers, telecommunications carriers, the University of Alaska Anchorage, and the State of Alaska.  The project is recognized for its leadership in the future of telemedicine and telehealth in the state.

The Web site includes "Stat Grand Central" with abundant links and resources.

Alateen, a part of Al-Anon Family Groups, is a fellowship of young Al-Anon members, usually teenagers, whose lives have been affected by someone's else's drinking.

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The Alberta Association of Social Workers [AASW] was incorporated in 1961. In 1995 it changed its name to Alberta Association of Registered Social Workers [AARSW]. The name changed again to Alberta College of Social Workers [ACSW] in 2003.

ACSW serves as the regulatory body for the profession of social work in Alberta.

Objectives:

• Serve and protect the public interest
• Provide direction and to regulate the profession
• Establish, maintain and enforce standards for registration, continuing competence and standards of practice
• Establish, maintain and enforce a code of ethics
• Approve educational programs for registration purposes

The ACSW is a member of the Canadian Association of Social Workers and the Association of Social Work Boards.

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The Alberta Society for the Promotion of Sexual Health [ASPSH] (www.aspsh.ca) promotes optimal sexual and reproductive health and well-being throughout the lifespan for all through

• Comprehensive sexuality education
• Public education
• Advocacy
• Acquisition, utilization and distribution of information and resources
• Networking and support

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Alcohol and Drug Foundation - Queensland, established in 1974, provides treatment and rehabilitation for those with drug dependency and mental illness.

Objectives:

• Develop, foster and maintain services for persons with drug related problems, those at risk and their families
• Facilitate the acquisition and exchange of knowledge concerning education, research and treatment in relation to the understanding and control of alcohol and other drug problems
• Encourage innovative approaches to the understanding of the role played by alcohol and other drugs in our society
• Promote legislation and community and professional attitudes that will contribute to the alleviation of alcohol and other drug problems in our society

The Alcohol and Drug Problems Association of North America [ADPA] is the oldest trade association in the alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment fields. ADPA was founded in 1949 to represent professionals in the alcohol and drug abuse prevention, intervention and treatment field.

The mission of ADPA is to advocate for alcohol and other drug abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment services with appropriate quality and quantity to serve those requiring them.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a non-profit voluntary fellowship of people with alcoholism. It pioneered the "12-step" approach to achieving and maintaining sobriety through abstinence. Chapters in all cities are listed in local phonebooks, but the National Office can also provide referrals. There are nearly 53,000 autonomous groups in the US alone.

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Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Providers of New York State [ASAP] is a non-profit membership association for advocating for and promoting the highest quality treatment, prevention, research and training.

The membership of ASAP includes coalitions, programs and agencies throughout New York State which provide alcoholism and substance abuse prevention, treatment, research and evaluation and concerned individuals and corporations who wish to support the mission of ASAP.

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Alderman and Marshall is a private firm that organizes mental health continuing education courses, particularly in the areas of self-injury and dissociation.

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In the mid-1970s St Alexius Medical Center was one of the first facilities in the nation to establish remote cardiac monitoring capabilities. The Center began its TeleCare Network in 1995. Health care providers and their patients can consult face-to-face with distant specialists via two-way "live" television. Specialists are able to consult with attending physicians, examine patients, check an ear canal, examine a wound, view a chest x-ray during a cardiac surgery consult or instruct a speech therapy patient.

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Aligned Management Associates [AMA] is a biomedical communications company that has provided start-up and management services for non-profit organizations since 1979 and that organizes conferences.

The Allegheny University of the Health Sciences was dissolved in a bankruptcy action in 1998. Its schools eventually were taken up by Drexel University. It was originally formed by merging the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University.

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The Alliance for Aging Research is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting healthcare discoveries that will improve the experience of aging.

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The Alliance for Children and Families formed in 1998 when Family Service America (established 1911) and the National Association of Homes and Services for Children (established 1973) merged.

The Alliance for Children and Families is an international nonprofit association, representing more than 450 child- and family-serving organizations. Alliance members serve more than 5 million individuals annually in more than 2,000 communities, providing services ranging from residential care to domestic abuse prevention and intervention.

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Founded in 1991, the Alliance for Health Reform is a non-profit, non-partisan group that provides information to influential individuals and organizations in the United States healthcare policy field. It sponsors meetings and produces briefings, videos and white papers, but does not press for any particular legislation.

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The Alliance of Information and Referral Services [AIRS] is the professional association for over 1,000 programs throughout North America that provide information and referral [I&R] on human services in their respective communities.

AIRS was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1973 to improve access to services for all people through the mechanism of information and referral. AIRS meets this goal through its publications, international training conferences, and I&R clearinghouse. AIRS offers a professional umbrella for all I&R providers in both public and private organizations.

Through its publications and national networking, AIRS promotes the image of I&R and conveys new developments in the field.

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The Alliance of Medical Internet Professionals [AMIP] is a not for profit Internet-based organization formed to:

• Connect Medical Internet Professionals world-wide
• Improve the quality of healthcare to people around the globe
• Discover innovative methods for employing Internet technology in the practice of medicine

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AMI/FAMI is one of the largest chapters of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill [NAMI] and the New York State Alliance for the Mentally Ill.

Founded in 1979, AMI/FAMI is a non-profit, self-help, volunteer organization comprised of over 1,200 family members and friends of people with such neurobiological disorders as schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder (manic depression) and major depression, as well as people who themselves suffer from mental illness.

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The 120 members of the Alliance for the Mentally Ill (Madras) are relatives of people with mental illness.

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The Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Maryland (AMI of MD) is an advocacy organization for family and friends of people with serious mental illness, and people who have a mental illness. It is affiliated with the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill [NAMI].

AMI of Maryland has 1,700 members in 18 local chapters serving Maryland's 23 counties and Baltimore City. With its statewide toll-free Helpline, it provids information and referrals to appropriate services such as family self-help support groups and mental health services for persons with serious mental illness and their family members.

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The Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Nevada is a non-profit state chartered organization. Its objectives are to::

• Remove the social stigma from mental illness
• Solicit funds for programs that aid and educate
• Lobby government for new laws to protect people with mentally illness

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