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Rethink (National Schizophrenia Fellowship) St Albans City and District

Rethink (NSF) is a voluntary organisation that helps people with severe mental illness, their families and carers.

Their aims are to:

* Influence decision makers to provide balanced hospital and community care resources;

* Spread understanding of the problems arising from severe mental illness;

* Encourage people with severe mental illness and their families and carers to help each other and themselves;

* Secure improvement of treatment and care and adequate financial security for people with severe mental illness;

* Provide and influence others to provide services in housing, education and training, rehabilitation and employment, recreation, information, advice and advocacy;

* Press for and so far as resources allow, sponsor research into the causes, consequences and management of severe mental illness.

Parent organisation: National Schizophrenia Fellowship.

Registered charity number 271028