The Mental Health Association / Maryland Coalition on Mental Health and Aging has a Director of Older Adult Programs, Kim Burton, who is happy to help with supportive education and referral information.

You may contact Kim at 410-235-1178 x 210 during business hours or email kburton@mhamd.org.

There are multiple sources of education, services and support for the needs of older adults available through State agencies and community providers for both aging services and mental and allied health services.

Our resource guide is designed to give you beginning steps to find what you need. There is plenty more to be found but we have restricted our offerings to keep our listings manageable. Please contact us if you have suggestions for additional categories of help or particular resources of need.

Helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries, the National Institute of Health makes important medical discoveries that improve health and save lives.

Recent scientific advances have revolutionized our understanding of drug abuse and addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

The Mental Health Association of Maryland serves as the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Outreach Partner in Maryland to deliver the most current and accurate information about mental health and mental illness to the public.

The Center for Mental Health Services seeks to improve prevention and mental health treatment services by helping states improve and increase the quality and range of treatment, rehabilitation and support services for people with mental illness, their families and communities.