Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

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Basic Information

Address: 730 N. Franklin Street, Suite 501 Chicago, IL 60654-7225 USA
Phone Number: 800-826-3632
Fax Number: 312-642-7243

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Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

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Additional Information

President: Peter Ashenden
Mission Statement:

The mission of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is to provide hope, help, and support to improve the lives of people living with depression or bipolar disorder. DBSA pursues and accomplishes this mission through peer-based, recovery-oriented, empowering services and resources when people want them, where they want them, and how they want them.

Membership Fee: http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=donate_donateonline
Area Served: International
Services Offered:
DBSA reaches nearly five million people through our educational materials and programs, exhibit materials, and media activities.
Conferences/Speakers: http://www.dbsalliance.org/conference2009
Fundraisers: http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=events_eventsmain
Support Groups: http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=support_findsupportlanding
Detailed Organization Information:

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is the leading patient-directed national organization focusing on the most prevalent mental illnesses. The organization fosters an environment of understanding about the impact and management of these life-threatening illnesses by providing up-to-date, scientifically based tools and information written in language the general public can understand. DBSA supports research to promote more timely diagnosis, develop more effective and tolerable treatments, and discover a cure. The organization works to ensure that people living with mood disorders are treated equitably. DBSA was founded in 1985.

Slogan: We've Been There. We Can Help.