The Maven Project aims to leverage the strength of medical alumni associations to provide health care services where they are needed—but all physicians are welcome to volunteer. 

Geared up in a hurry, a program to send psychiatrists to the Gulf after Katrina mostly worked well but imparted some lessons. This is the second of a two-part series marking the 10th anniversary of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 

Psychiatrists tell their own stories after December’s tragedy at an elementary school in their state. Connecticut psychiatrists who volunteered after the December shootings.in Newtown tell their personal stories. 

Psychiatrist Scott Shapiro, M.D., launched a program to provide free mental health care to New York’s uninsured individuals. Psychiatrists and mental health professionals are volunteering to provide free care in a New York program. 

People with serious mental illness who volunteer at New Orleans' Audubon Zoo help themselves and also lots of visitors who come to see the animals. 

This article is part of a continuing series on the manual's development. The series will continue until the release of DSM-5 in May 2013.