Church Basement Press publishes books that support the work of faith-based and community organizations, and help people make progress in their lives.
Its first title is Defying Mental Illness: Finding Recovery with Community Resources and Family Support, by Paul Komarek and Andrea Schroer, launching in October 2011.
We have seen far too many heroin deaths. It is time to adapt. This book shows the path to safety. SHARP Stop Heroin and Rescue People is a consensus-based approach that makes a complex scary problem easy to understand. Written by a social service expert, this book delivers solutions. It's realistic, specific, hopeful, and positive.
Revised and updated for 2014. Defying Mental Illness is a plain-language guide to recovery from mental illness. Its strengths-based approach makes mental health disorders and treatment understandable. Covers schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, autism, suicide prevention, childhood mental illness and more.
"Provides what's needed most" --NAMI Advocate