The National Mental Health Information Center Web site won the World Wide Web Health Award for Fall 2003. The World Wide Web Health Awards is a program that recognizes the best health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals. The program is held twice a year — spring and fall — with the goal of providing a "seal of quality" for electronic health information.
	The Golden Web Award is a FREE service of the International Association of Web Masters and Designers and is presented to those sites whose web design, originality and content have achieved levels of excellence deserving of recognition.
	The National Mental Health Information Center Web site received a Certificate of Merit from the Aesculapius Awards in the area of health communications. The awards are given to producers of health-related video and radio PSAs (public service announcements) and Web sites that Health Improvement Institute judges consider excellent in communicating health information to the public.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center Web site won the Silver Inkwell Award of Excellence in the Electronic, Online, and Interactive Communication, Internet (World Wide Web) Site nonprofit category. This is an annual award given by the International Association of Business Communicators, Washington, DC Chapter. It is a formal recognition from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Washington chapter that your achievement meets the highest of standards.
	Mentalhealth.org was awarded the 2002 Annual ScientificAmerican.com Sci/Tech Web Awards, in the "medical" category. As one of 50 chosen sites picked by their editors, mentalhealth.org is proud to be among this carefully culled list of "worthwhile" sites which run the gamut from the serious and information-packed to the more whimsical, and even playful, sides of science and technology.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center is the Silver Winner for the Spring 2002 World Wide Web Health Award. The Award program recognizes the best health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals. Entries in the Spring 2002 World Wide Web Health Awards Program were evaluated by a distinguished panel of judges. Using a rating scale of 1 to 100, each judge evaluated entries for content, creativity, and an overall assessment.
	Mentalhealth.org has won a 2002 APEX Award for Publication Excellence in the category of "Most Improved Web & Intranet Sites". APEX is an annual competition for writers, editors, publications staff and business and nonprofit communicators. Awards are given in some 100 communications categories, in 11 main categories.
	The Mental Health Services Web site is certified as a legitimate leader in web development excellence using advanced programming concepts in design, coding, or graphics. Site-specific reasons for winning the award: The Web site was created using advanced ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Access XP, & SQL Server 2000 to provide dynamic drop down menus, validate forms, Order System, shopping cart, great search engine, 5 discussion forums, and Web Chat capability.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center received the WEB FEET Award for being "...an outstanding site in its subject area." The Web site was praised as holding a wealth of information about mental health and for providing specific advice and resources for health consumers, children, and medical professionals. Created by librarians and educators, WEB FEET's rigorous site evaluation process and full descriptions make WEB FEET simply the best Internet resource available.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center is the Gold Winner for the Fall 2001 World Wide Web Health Award. The Award program recognizes the best health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals. This program is held twice a year--spring and fall--with the goal of providing a "seal of quality" for electronic health information.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center is a Family Friendly Web Site
	The HONCode The Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct (HONcode) for medical and health Web sites addresses one of Internet's main healthcare issues: the reliability and credibility of information.
	The Critical Mass web award is giving to sites that " is critically important to the World Wide Web and must contain useful content, good design and presentation and are easy to navigate. "
	The Seeds of Knowledge web award is giving to sites that "encourages, informs and provides great content."
	Once again, SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center has been a recipient of the World Wide Web Health Award. The Award program recognizes the best health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals. This program is held twice a year--spring and fall--with the goal of providing a "seal of quality" for electronic health information.
	The LTW Site Sensation Award is given to Websites that show exemplary web site creation and design, upholding good practices in web design, and promoting ethical behaviour in the industry.
	The purpose of Star Site Award is to reward "outstanding pages of general interest." Moreover, content must be interesting and targeted to a broad audience.
	The purpose of Simple Guide® Award Program is to reward the creative & innovative webmasters who have taken their own time, hard work & dedication shown in creating a respectable, well designed, useful, informative, interesting & unique sites.
	Neovision is given out to sites that present a great overall balance of creative design, layout, clear graphics, content, originality, and professional appearance.
	The Weblyte Design Award is given to a site based on over-all design. To receive this award, a site has to have high ratings in content, design and web technologies implemented.
	The WebGuide Awards, created by faculty in the Department of Child Development at Tufts University, is a not-for-profit resource for parents, students and professionals interested in child and family issues. Their goal is to identify, describe and evaluate those Web sites that contain the most credible research-based information about a variety of topics in the field of child development.
	The Eclipse Award is given out to recognize the dedication and hard work of web masters and site owners that have "gone the extra mile" in preparing, presenting and maintaining their online presence. SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center site was credited for being a "wonderful resource for people with mental illness and people just searching for information and answers."
	The World Wide Web Health Awards is a program that recognizes the best health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals. The program is held twice a year--spring and fall--with the goal of providing a "seal of quality" for electronic health information.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center has received a 4 star rating from the editors of the ABC's of Parenting, which is devoted to providing web surfers with reviews and ratings of the absolute best websites of interest to families and parents-to-be. A 4 Star Site has great to excellent content, more advanced graphics, easy loading and navigation.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center is featured by healthAtoZ.com for having met or exceeded their rigorous standards for being featured on the healthAtoZ search engine.
	The World Wide Web Health Awards is a program that recognizes the best health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals. The program is held twice a year--spring and fall--with the goal of providing a "seal of quality" for electronic health information.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center site has recently been awarded a three-star rating on Mental Health Net, the largest catalog of mental health, psychology, and psychiatry resources online today. Mental Health Net is an Ohio not-for-profit organization devoted to information and education resources online.
	Aesculapius Awards of Excellence are given to producers of health-related video and radio PSAs (public service announcements) and Web sites that Health Improvement Institute judges consider excellent in communicating health information to the public.
	med411.com criteria for selection included: Content of interest to healthcare professionals Tone and presentation maintained at a professional level Site structure, navigation and graphic design executed at a professional level.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center has been selected as a recipient of the highly regarded "Editor's Choice Award" from HealingWell.com. This award is reserved for selected health websites that exhibit 1) exceptional web design, 2) reliable and quality health information on disease and disorder topics, and 3) patient accessibility and support. HealingWell.com is a community, information and resource site on diseases, disorders and chronic illness, including medical news, articles and information, community message boards and chat, books, patient stories, and directories to disease-related web sites.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center was listed as a "Featured Site" featured in the June 10th issue of the Psychwatch Newsletter. The Newsletter is read by over 12,000 mental health professionals in at least 75 countries worldwide. Psychwatch.Com - an online resource for professionals and students in psychology, psychiatry, and related healthcare fields. News, links, conferences, jobs, & a free newsletter.
	The editors of Britannica.com selected SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center as one of the best on the Internet when reviewed for quality, accuracy of content, presentation and usability.
	Beagle Web Picks are featured on their home page to provide pointers to quality resources on the World Wide Web; SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center was highlighted on May 11, 2000. HMS Beagle is a biweekly Webzine with articles, debates, reviews, and editorials addressed to biomedical researchers.
	Chosen again in June 2000, SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center is recognized as an award-winning psychiatry and mental health site. The Hardin MD Clean Bill of Health Award is given to the "best of the best" sites, that have connection rates of at least 93%. The rank order of sites is determined both by the connection rate, and by the size of the list (number of links at the site).
	Valuable Resource Award from CiteLine Internet Research Software is given to sites that have been carefully screened for quality of content, overall usability and value to healthcare professionals. Our CiteLine "Valuable Resource" award confirms that SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center is a credible source of healthcare information, and we are displaying it as a mark of excellence.
	The Spider Food Award is meant to recognize those sites and individuals that achieve Top Ten ranking with the major search engines through ethical and professional search engine optimization strategies.
	StudyWeb has selected the National Congress for Hispanic Mental Health section of SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center website, as one of the best educational resources on the Web by their researchers.

Web Indexes

	Linkopedia provides a one-stop resource of pre-selected quality links that appeals to a wide range of people and offers easy access to the latest news, weather, sports and stock market information. They provide selective links to family-oriented sites and all of their listed sites are reviewed before being included in the guide.
	The Healthlinks.net directory is the largest "Free" comprehensive online directory available specifically for the use of healthcare consumers and professionals on the Internet.
	MedExplorer has listed SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center as a top rated Mental Health site.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center has been selected as a quality medical/health Web sites queried by MedHunt, the Health On the Net Foundation medical/health search engine.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center has been approved for listing at Surfers Choice Portal. With high approval standards, SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center is distinguished as one of the best in its category.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center is SafeSurf rated for all ages.
	SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center is listed in Achoo Health Care Online whose purpose is to provide quality health care information at no cost to the user.