Resources
The Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities has developed a wide-ranging collection of resources for the field. Our knowledge translation activities include peer reviewed publications in national journals, nearly one hundred toolkits, monographs, and guidebooks designed to provide policy and practical guidance to consumers and providers working to expand community participation, and a catalogue of exemplary programs. All of these can be accessed here, at no cost. You can scroll down through these resources generally, or you can click on:
Peer Reviewed Publications – for a complete and current listing of journal articles from faculty, staff, and consultants to the Temple University Collaborative.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks – for a complete and current listing of varied resources from the Temple University Collaborative, or search by specific topics by clicking on:
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Innovative Programs – for a growing list of exemplary policies, programs and practices that can serve as models for local activity.
If you have additional questions about any of these resources or wish to follow-up with us with particular questions, we would welcome your feedback. You can email us Katy.Kaplan@temple .edu, or telephone Ms. Kaplan, the Assistant Director of the Temple University Collaborative, at 215.204.6779.
Peer Reviewed Publications
- Kaplan, K., Salzer, M., & Brusilovsky, E. (2012). "Community Participation as a Predictor of Recovery-Oreineted Outcomes Among Emerging and Mature Adults with Mental Illness." Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 35(3), 219-229.
- Matejkowski, J., Draine, J., Solomon, P., & Salzer, M. (2012) "Mental Illness, Criminal Risk Factors and Parole Release Decisions." Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 29, 528-553.
- Metraux, S., Brusilovsky, E., Prvu-Bettger, J., Wong, Y.-L. I., & Salzer, M.(2012) "Geographic access to and availability of community resources for persons diagnosed with severe mental illness in Philadelphia, USA." Health & Place, 18, 621-629.
- Salzer, M., & Brusilovskiy, E. (2012) "A study of environmental influences on the well being of individuals with psych disabilities in Philadelphia, PA." Social Science & Medicine, 74, 1591-1601.
- Salzer, M. (2012)"A Comparative Study of Campus Experiences of College Students with Mental Illnesses Versus a General College Sample." Journal of American College Health, 60, 1-7.
- Draine, J., Blank Wilson, A., Marcus S.C., Metraux, S., Hadley, T., & Evans, A.C. (2010). “The Impact of Mental Illness Status on the Length of Jail Detention and the Legal Mechanism of Jail Release.” Psychiatric Services, 61(5), 458-462.
- Matejkowski, J., Caplan, J. M., & Cullen, S. W. (2010). "The impact of severe mental illness on parole decisions: Social integration within a prison setting." Criminal Justice and Behavior, 37(9), 1005-1029.
- Metraux, S., Byrne, T. & Culhane, D.P. (2010). “Institutional Discharges and Subsequent Shelter Use Among Unaccompanied Adults in New York City.” Journal of Community Psychology, 38(1), 28-38.
- Park, J., Metraux, S. & Culhane, D. (2010). “Behavioral Health Services Use among Heads of Homeless and Housed Poor Families.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 21(2), 582-590.
- Roberts, M.M., Murphy, A., Dolce, J., Spagnolo, A., Gill, K., Lu, W. & Librera, L.A. (2010). “A study of the impact of social support development on job acquisition and retention among people with psychiatric abilities.” Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 33, 203-207.
- Salzer, M.S., & Kundra, L.B. (2010). “Liability Issues Associated With Referrals to Self-Help Groups.” Psychiatric Services, 61, 6-8.
- Salzer, M.S., Schwenk, E., & Brusilovskiy, E. (2010). “Certified Peer Specialist Roles and Activities: Results from a National Survey.” Psychiatric Services, 61, 520-523.
- Wong, Y.-L. I., Sands, R. G., & Solomon, P. L. (2010). “Conceptualizing community: The experience of mental health consumers.” Qualitative Health Research, 20(5), 654-667.
- Friesen, B., Nicholson, J., Kaplan, K. & Solomon, P. (2009). “Parents with a mental illness and implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, Monograph on ASFA.” Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Social Policy and The Urban Institute.
- Kaplan, K., Kottsieper, P., Scott, J., Salzer, M., & Solomon, P. (2009). “Adoption and Safe Families Act State Statutes Regarding Parents with Mental Illnesses: A Review and Targeted Intervention.” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 33(2), 91-94.
- Salzer, M.S., Katz, J., Kidwell, B., Federici, M., & Ward-Colasante, C. (2009). “Pennsylvania Certified Peer Specialist Initiative: Training, Employment, and Work Satisfaction Outcomes.” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 32, 293-297.
- Wong, Y.-L. I. & Stanhope, V. (2009). “Conceptualizing community: A
comparison of neighborhood characteristics of supportive housing for
persons with psychiatric and developmental disabilities.” Social Science
and Medicine, 68(8), 1376-1387. - Salzer, M.S., Wick, L.C., Rogers & J.C. (2008). “Familiarity With and Use of Accommodations and Supports Among Postsecondary Students with Mental Illness.” Psychiatric Services, 59 (4).
- Metraux, S., Caplan, J.M., Klugman, D. & Hadley, T.R. (2007). “Assessing Residential Segregation Among Medicaid Recipients With Psychiatric Disability In Philadelphia.” Journal of Community Psychology, 35(2).
- Wong, Y.-L.I., Nath, S.B & Solomon, Phyllis L. (2007). “Group and Organizational Involvement Among Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities in Supported Housing.” Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 34(2).
- DiFranco, E., Bressi, S.K. & Salzer, M.S. (2006). “Understanding Consumer Preferences for Communication Channels to Create Consumer-Directed Health Promotion Efforts in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Settings.” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 29 (4).
- Park, M.J., Solomon, P. & Mandell, D.S. (2006). “Involvement in the Child Welfare System Among Mothers With Serious Mental Illness.” Psychiatric Services, 57 (4).
- Salzer, M.S. Evans & Arthur C. (2006). “CATIE and the Value of Atypical Antipsychotics in the Context of Creating a Recovery-Oriented Behavioral Health System.” Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 33, 536–540.
- Salzer, M.S., Kaplan, K. & Atay, J. (2006). “State Psychiatric Hospital Census After the 1999 Olmstead Decision: Evidence of Decelerating Deinstitutionalization.” Psychiatric Services, 57 (10).
- Zubrinsky, C. & Mullahy, M. (2006). “The State of the Olmstead Decision and the Impact on Consumer Participation in Planning.” American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 9, 131-143.
- Draine, J., Blank, A., Kottsieper, P. & Solomon, P. (2005). “Contrasting jail diversion and in-jail services for mental illness and substance abuse: Do they serve the same clients?” Behavioral Science and the Law, 23, 171-181.
- Murphy, A.A., Mullen, M.G. & Spagnolo A.B. (2005). “Enhancing Individual Placement and Support: Promoting Job Tenure by Integrating Natural Supports and Supported Education.” American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 8, 37-61.
- Solomon, P., Cavanaugh, M. & Gelles, R. (2005). “Family violence among adults with severe mental illness: a neglected area of research.” Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 6, 40-54.
- Stanhope, V., Solomon, P., Pernell-Arnold, A., Sands, R. & Bourjolly, J. (2005). “Evaluating cultural competence among behavioral health professionals.” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 28, 225-233.
- Corrigan, P.W., Salzer, M., Ralph, R.O., Sangster, Y., & Keck, L. (2004). “Examining the Factor Structure of the Recovery Assessment Scale.” Schizophrenia Bulletin, 30(4), 1035-1041.
- Marshall, T. & Solomon, P. (2004). “Confidentiality intervention: Effects on provider-Consumer-Family Collaboration.” Research on Social Work Practice, 14, 3-13.
- Marshall, T. & Solomon, P. (2004). “Provider contact with families of adults with severe mental illness: Taking a closer look.” Family Process, 43, 209-216.
- Rogers, S. (Nov./Dec, 2004). “Plotting a Road Map to Recovery.” Behavioral Health Management, 24(6), 44-46.
- Salzer, M.S., Tunner, T. & Charney, N.J. (2004). “A Low-Cost, Telephone Intervention to Enhance Schizophrenia Treatment: A Demonstration Study.” Schizophrenia Research, 66, 75-76.
- Solomon, P. (2004). “Peer support/peer provider services: Underlying processes, benefits, and critical ingredients.” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 27, 392-401.
- Marshall, T. & Solomon, P. (2003). “Professionals’ responsibilities in releasing information to families of adults with mental illness.” Psychiatric Services, 54, 1622-1628.
Toolkits/ Monographs/Guidebooks from the Temple University Collaborative
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Salzer, M.S., Tunner, T. & Charney, N.J. (2004). “A Low-Cost, Telephone Intervention to Enhance Schizophrenia Treatment: A Demonstration Study.” Schizophrenia Research, 66, 75-76.
- Salzer, M.S., Kaplan, K. & Atay, J. (2006). “State Psychiatric Hospital Census After the 1999 Olmstead Decision: Evidence of Decelerating Deinstitutionalization.” Psychiatric Services, 57 (10).
- Salzer, M.S. Evans & Arthur C. (2006). “CATIE and the Value of Atypical Antipsychotics in the Context of Creating a Recovery-Oriented Behavioral Health System.” Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 33, 536–540.
- Stanhope, V., Solomon, P., Pernell-Arnold, A., Sands, R. & Bourjolly, J. (2005). “Evaluating cultural competence among behavioral health professionals.” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 28, 225-233.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Serving Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities In Centers For Independent Living
This revised publication from the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities provides Center for Independent Living staff with clear and current information to help them better respond to the needs of people in recovery from mental illnesses. Developed in conjunction with CIL staff and mental health consumers from around the country, the revised Fact Sheet – first issued last year - provides brief responses to twelve frequently asked questions as well as online linkages to websites with more detailed information and instruction for each topic. The publication is designed both for individual CIL staff and for use in CIL staff training programs focusing on this growing portion of the CIL consumer base. - Funding the Future: Managing Your Money and Building Your Assets
This toolkit addresses one of the most important components of community inclusion, managing your money. Based on information gathered from a national survey of rehabilitation programs and consumer-run services, this new publication not only addresses the fundamentals of financial literacy but also offers three asset building strategies. Such strategies include getting a job, beginning a savings program and starting your own business. Additionally, Funding Your Future provides various resources and program models from around the nation for consumers to learn more about this area of community living.
- Community Integration: Supporting People in Getting What They Want
This online course – six half-hour segments on the definition, principles and major program models of community integration – and featuring presentations by Temple University Collaborative staff and consultants, powerpoint presentations, homework assignments and reading lists – is available from http://www.cmhsrp.uic.edu/nrtc/upenn.course.asp. - Managing Risk In Community Inclusion: Promoting the Dignity of Risk & Personal Choice
This 52 page document provides an introduction to the concepts of community inclusion, the types of risk – to consumers, agencies, and communities – that are of concern, and effective strategies to anticipate, minimize, and grapple with risk in ways that continue to promote personal dignity and choice – with a series of useful instruments to plan ahead. - An Introduction to the Principles of Community Integration
In 2009, the Temple University Collaborative led a two-part webcast, sponsored by the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA), on the principles and practices of community inclusion. The first 90-minute session – reviewing key principles and their research base – can be accessed at http://commpart.vo.llnwd.net/o28/USPRA/091118/index.html or by contacting USPRA directly. - Bringing Community Integration to Life
This is the second part of the 2009 USPRA-sponsoring two-part webcast on community inclusion. The 90-minute session focuses on innovative practices in the domains of employment, housing, religion, social life, and consumer-run programming, among other areas. The session can be accessed at http://commpart.vo.llnwd.net/o28/USPRA/091209/index.html or by contacting USPRA directly. - NYAPRS 5th Annual Executive Seminar on Systems Transformation: Presentation Summaries
The New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (www.nyaprs.org) held its 5th annual executive seminar on service transformation policies, integrated care programs and practices, and community inclusion strategies in April 2009. Proceeding of the two-day event – in the form of PowerPoint presentations and handouts – are provided in this compendium. - Cultural Competence in Mental Health
This brief document discusses discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, class, and religion, with suggestions on how service provides can incorporate cultural competency standards into their daily practice, with an emphasis on how culture plays an important role in how people with mental illnesses express themselves, cope with stress, and meet life’s challenges. - Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination
This brief ‘community inclusion toolkit’ provides an overview of the current research into the prejudice and discrimination faced by people with psychiatric disabilities in community settings, and offers recommendations for effective strategies – for consumes and staff – in building more supportive communities. - What Is Community Integration?
This brief document provides an overview of the emerging fields of community integration and community inclusion: it discusses the basic principles of community inclusion, it’s importance to the recovery process for people with psychiatric disabilities, and the strategies consumers and staff can use – with help from the Temple Collaborative – in promoting inclusion strategies. - Philadelphia DBH/MRS Tools for Transformation: Community Integration
This document is one of a series of resource packets produced by the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health to provide a greater understanding of key recovery concepts for persons in recovery, their family members, service providers, and City staff – a useful training tool as an introduction to recovery and its importance in program design. - The Careers of the Direct Support Workforce in the MH, DD, and SA Service Delivery Systems.
Focusing on the entry-level workforce in mental health systems, this report provides a portrait of the demographic characteristics, job roles and responsibilities, compensations, tenure and job satisfaction of the behavioral health frontline workforce, with recommendations that address training opportunities and varied career development challenges. - Increasing the Community Presence and Participation of People with MH and DD Disabilities.
This fourteen-page document provides a series of strategies for promoting community inclusion and addressing the barriers to greater participation in multiple aspects – domains – of community life, based on a two-day seminar on community integration at a community mental health center in Des Moine, IOWA in 2006. - Specific Strategies to Help Make Community Integration a Reality.
This compendium of twenty-one specific community integration strategies, across several core life domains, provides guidance to consumers, family members, and public and private agencies in generating new program directions: each of the twenty-one strategies has half-a-dozen implementation steps to provide a starting point for program transformation. - Into the Thick of Things: Connecting Consumers to Community Life
This 50-page compendium of three-dozen community inclusion initiatives currently provided by a national sample of consumer-run programs for people with psychiatric disabilities provides an inspiring set of alternatives that consumer-run agencies can use as a resource for transforming their own programs – with very helpful contact information for each spotlighted agency. - Collaborative’s First Five-Year Retrospective Report
This 20-page report provides an overview of the research topics, methodologies and major findings from nine quantitative and qualitative research studies completed during first five years (2003 - 2008) of the Collaborative on Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities, with projects covering: consumer definitions of community integration, the development of community integration measurement instruments, a GIS study of residential segregation, documentation of mothers' custody rights, an examination of the impacts of the Olmstead decision, the effectiveness of 'Circles of Support' technologies, the use of a Social Enhancement Workbook, and results from both an Internet-based peer support network and an Internet survey of students with psychiatric disabilities in secondary educational programs.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Mental Disability and Voting Access
Dr. Mark Salzer, Ph.D., Director of the Temple University Collaborative, was interviewed on November 4, 2008 on public radio (WHYY/Philadelphia) for a discussion of voting access for those with psychiatric disabilities and strategies to assure greater voter participation. To listen to the interview, go to: http://whyy.org/blogs/healthscience/2008/11/04/mental-disability-and-voting-access/. - A Guide to the Voting Rights of People with Disabilities
For information on how best to address the barriers that still exist to the voting rights of individuals with psychiatric disabilities, download this Guide, developed collaboratively by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and the national Disability Rights Network, with financial support from the Temple University Collaborative. - Voting: Exercising the Right to Vote
This document is designed to answer the most frequently asked questions about voters’ rights for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, but includes additional information about how both individuals and groups can challenge discriminatory voting rights laws and practices through concerted advocacy that promotes broader civic engagement by those with psychiatric disabilities. - Civic Engagement: How to Get Involved in Your Community
This resource from the Temple University Collaborative discusses the benefits of getting involved in community activities, and offers many suggestions and strategies to promote active participation in the local social, political, religious, and mental health advocacy activities that can foster both empowerment and a sense of personal purpose.
Education / Supported Education
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Salzer, M.S., Wick, L.C., Rogers & J.C. (2008). “Familiarity With and Use of Accommodations and Supports Among Postsecondary Students with Mental Illness.” Psychiatric Services, 59 (4).
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- A Practical Guide for People with Disabilities Who Want to Go to College.
This document provides a practical guide to help people with disabilities who want to pursue their education goals at a community college, career institutes, four-year college or university or graduate school. The guide provides an overview of the challenges and supports needed to help achieve this goal, including finding the right school, locating supports at your school, managing your disability and your education, and using your new educational qualifications in the search for a better job. Other areas addressed include assessing your own interests and skills, funding your education, disclosing your disability, and locating supports and services to succeed at school. This versatile guide can be used by consumers, rehabilitation and/or case management personnel, and family members/friends or individuals with disabilities.
- The Barriers Faced by College Students with Psychiatric Disabilities
Dr. Mark Salzer, Ph.D. Director of the Temple University Collaborative, was interviewed by Larry Abramson from NPR’s All Things Considered on December 2, 2008, along with Karen Bower, Esq from the Bazelon Center on Metal Health Law on the barriers college students with psychiatric disabilities face. To listen: http:www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97713906. - The College Experience
This document provides students in college settings – along with their parents and instructors – tips for reducing the stresses that commonly impact college students, in addition to providing guidance on the type of ‘reasonable accommodations’ students with psychiatric disabilities can request to help them meet the demands of college. - Supporting Students: A Model Policy for Colleges and Universities
This 2007 monograph from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law provides a set of model policies for colleges and universities to use in responding to the complex issues raised by college students in crisis. It suggests guiding principles and specific activities related to offering appropriate counseling and referral, assuring confidentiality, providing reasonable accommodations, making and ending leaves of absence, utilizing disciplinary procedures in a nondiscriminatory way, and educating and training university personnel.
Employment / Circles of Support
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Murphy, A.A., Mullen, M.G. & Spagnolo A.B. (2005). “Enhancing Individual Placement and Support: Promoting Job Tenure by Integrating Natural Supports and Supported Education.” American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 8, 37-61.
- Roberts, M.M., Murphy, A., Dolce, J., Spagnolo, A., Gill, K., Lu, W. & Librera, L.A. (2010). “ A study of the impact of social support development on job acquisition and retention among people with psychiatric abilities.” Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 33, 203-207.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- A Practical Guide for People With Mental Health Conditions Who Want to Work
Although a staggering number of individuals with mental health conditions do not work, competitive employment remains a vibrant goal for most, and the truth is that most people with mental health conditions are able to work successfully if they receive the supports they need. The Temple University Collaborative is proud to present "A Practical Guide for People With Mental Health Conditions Who Want to Work," designed for people with mental health conditions who want to return to successful careers. In fifteen brief and beautifully illustrated chapters, the Guide offers encouragement and vital information on the importance of work, the availability of rehabilitation programs, the ins and outs of the Social Security Administration's work incentives, the challenges of starting a new job and grappling with disclosure, and strategies for long-term success at work - and more. Designed for those with mental health conditions to use on their own or as part of a return-to-work group in community mental health centers, psychiatric rehabilitation programs, or peer-run agencies, the Guide focuses on helping people to achieve economic self-sufficiency. - Faciliator's Manual: A Practical Guide for People with Mental Health Conditions Who Want to Work
The "Facilitator's Manual" is designed to be used in conjunction with the Practical Guide to Employment to help counselor's in community mental health centers, consumer self-help programs or psychiatric rehabilitation services (among other settings) who want to develop structured ways to use the Guide with groups of people with a mental health condition who are considering work. The Manual provides an overview of the demands of operating a 'work-focused group' and then provides a chapter-by-chapter set of exercises, suggestions, discussion questions and additional sources of information which group leaders will find helpful in structuring group activities around each of the Guide's important topics. - The Roles of Peer Specialists in Promoting Competitive Employment
The roles that peer specialists can play in promoting competitive employment with the people they serve are delineated in this 'Policy Guidance' from the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (P/OMHSAS) to county mental health offices and community based programs. Because Pennsylvania's peer specialist programs are Medicaid-funded, the Policy Guidance focuses on what types of employment-related services are and are not reimbursable under existing Medicaid guidelines, as well as approaches to documentation that can insure the delivery of appropriate services and supports in the vocational arena. The Policy Guidance can serve as a useful tool in other Medicaid-funded state settings - Facilitating Circles of Support for People with Mental Illnesses in Employment Settings
This Instruction Manual is designed as a training tool to assist staff in implementing the use of Circles of Support approaches in Supported Employment settings for people with psychiatric disabilities. Developed with support from the Temple University Collaborative by the University of Dentistry of New Jersey, the manual provides step-by-step Circle of Support training. - Circles of Support: Brochure
This brochure provides an overview of the Circle of Support approach, in which consumers’ family members, friends, and service providers regularly meet to assist the consumer in meeting his/her goals. A companion DVD that illustrates a typical Circle of Support meeting can be requested from Lia Lewis at lewisel@umdnj.odu or by calling 908.889.2535. - The Past and Future Career Patterns of People with Serious Mental Illness
This qualitative study, based on interviews with 59 individuals with serious psychiatric disabilities, provides surprising new information on the career patterns of consumers in the years both preceding their contact with mental health rehabilitation providers and following their engagement in community mental health centers, psychiatric rehabilitation programs, and vocational rehabilitation services. - Mainstream Career Training: Accessing Community Resources for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
This qualitative study, based on interviews with MH, VR and Workforce Development providers in urban, suburban, and rural settings, provides an overview of the abundance of non-mental health job training and placement programs serving the general public and the policy and program difficulties faced by people with psychiatric disabilities in accessing these mainstream public resources for work. - Employment Programming: Addressing Prevailing Barriers to Competitive Work
This policy brief – developed for the Center for Behavioral Health Services and Criminal Justice Research – provides an overview of current research into effective strategies for assisting people with psychiatric disabilities who have also had contact with the criminal justice system to return to competitive employment.
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Draine, J., Blank, A., Kottsieper, P. & Solomon, P. (2005). “Contrasting jail diversion and in-jail services for mental illness and substance abuse: Do they serve the same clients?” Behavioral Science and the Law, 23, 171-181.
- Draine, J., Blank Wilson, A., Marcus S.C., Metraux, S., Hadley, T., & Evans, A.C. (2010). “The Impact of Mental Illness Status on the Length of Jail Detention and the Legal Mechanism of Jail Release.” Psychiatric Services, 61(5), 458-462.
- Matejkowski, J., Caplan, J. M., & Cullen, S. W. (2010). "The impact of severe mental illness on parole decisions : Social integration within a prison setting." Criminal Justice and Behavior, 37(9), 1005-1029.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Forensic Peer Specialists: An Emerging Workforce
Forensic Peer Specialists are part of an emerging workforce comprised of individuals with a history of mental illness and incarceration who have achieved a reasonable degree of stability in their own lives and are now employed by local government and non-profit agencies to provide individualized support to others with both psychiatric disabilities and criminal justice involvements. However since the field is new, qualifications and responsibilities are defined variously from site to site. This Policy Brief, based on an informal national environmental scan with Forensic Peer Specialist programs across the county in 2011, seeks to define what we know at present about this new workforce and to establish a research agenda for the future.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Recovery and Community Integration Guide for GLBTQI Individuals: What You Need to Know.
The Temple University Collaborative and the National Alliance on Mental Illness collaborated on the development of a guidebook providing answers to a series of important questions asked by gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered, and questioning individuals with psychiatric disabilities with regard to finding and/or advocating for quality services that are sensitive and inclusive of their needs. - GLBTQI Mental Health: Recommendations for Policies and Services.
This document – a companion to the Temple/NAMI Guide for GLBTQI Individuals – reviews important considerations for service providers and policy makers in assessing an eliminating the barriers faced by individuals in the GLBTQI community who are seeking accessible, effective, and sensitive mental health care. - Access to and Inclusion in Behavioral Health Services for GLBTQI Consumers
A statewide taskforce of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning individuals in Pennsylvania developed a series of recommendations to address disparities in the delivery and appropriateness of behavioral health services between GLBTQI and other mental health service consumers and to help insure a more welcoming environment for GLBTQI consumers. - Cultural Competence in Mental Health
This brief document discusses discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, class, and religion, with suggestions on how service provides can incorporate cultural competency standards into their daily practice, with an emphasis on how culture plays an important role in how people with mental illnesses express themselves, cope with stress, and meet life’s challenges.
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Metraux, S., Caplan, J.M., Klugman, D. & Hadley, T.R. (2007). “Assessing Residential Segregation Among Medicaid Recipients With Psychiatric Disability In Philadelphia.” Journal of Community Psychology, 35(2).
- Metraux, S., Byrne, T. & Culhane, D.P. (2010). “Institutional Discharges and Subsequent Shelter Use Among Unaccompanied Adults in New York City.” Journal of Community Psychology, 38(1), 28-38.
- Wong, Y.-L.I., Nath, S.B & Solomon, Phyllis L. (2007). “Group and Organizational Involvement Among Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities in Supported Housing.” Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 34(2).
- Wong, Y.-L. I. & Stanhope, V. (2009). “Conceptualizing community: A comparison of neighborhood characteristics of supportive housing for persons with psychiatric and developmental disabilities.” Social Science and Medicine, 68(8), 1376-1387.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- The Collaborative Interim Report: Responses to Presentations and Website Resources
The impact of the presentations and publications of the Temple Collaborative on Community Inclusion are assessed in this report, based on responses to online questionnaires sent to individuals who had either received materials or training from the Collaborative during its first five years of operation. - Community Integration and Measuring Community Participation
This paper identifies specific strategies that you can use to measure consumer participation in community activities, with separate instrumentation for each of eight domains of community life, providing an effective and wide-used vehicle for assessing your program’s achievements in promoting community inclusion.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Recreation and Leisure for Older Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities
This is a brief set of guidelines providing tips to older adults with psychiatric disabilities to assist them in becoming actively involved in recreational and leisure activities in their communities, along with resources from a wide range of recreational and leisure activity programs. - Self- Advocacy for Older Adults: Information and Resources
This brief ‘community inclusion tool’ provides tips and resources for older adults with psychiatric disabilities: it reviews a range of common concerns for older adults, including those with both psychiatric and general health concerns, and makes recommendations for locating the resources older consumers may need.
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Zubrinsky, C. & Mullahy, M. (2006). “The State of the Olmstead Decision and the Impact on Consumer Participation in Planning.” American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 9, 131-143.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Olmstead: What Is the Olmstead Decision & How Does It Affect Me
The brief brochure provides essential information for mental health consumers on the Supreme Court decision that provides the basis for community based care and community inclusion: targeted to consumers, the document explains the Olmstead decision and the impact the decision has had on the development of community integration initiatives.
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Friesen, B., Nicholson, J., Kaplan, K. &Solomon, P. (2009). “Parents with a mental illness and implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, Monograph on ASFA.” Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Social Policy and The Urban Institute.
- Kaplan, K., Kottsieper, P., Scott, J., Salzer, M., & Solomon, P. (2009). “Adoption and Safe Families Act State Statutes Regarding Parents with Mental Illnesses: A Review and Targeted Intervention.” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 33(2), 91-94.
- Park, M.J., Solomon, P. & Mandell, D.S. (2006). “Involvement in the Child Welfare System Among Mothers With Serious Mental Illness.” Psychiatric Services, 57 (4).
- Park, J., Metraux, S. & Culhane, D. (2010). “Behavioral Health Services Use among Heads of Homeless and Housed Poor Families.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 21(2), 582-590.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Addressing Legislative Barriers to Parenting with a Psychiatric Disability
The Temple University Collaborative has been working, along with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, to address the inequities in the child custody system as it impacts on the rights of parents with psychiatric disabilities and their children. The resources below provide assistance in understanding and responding to these issues. - A Model Reunification Statute
To help inform consumers, lawyers, mental health advocates, and legislators, the Temple University Collaborative and the Bazelon Center have created a model statute for state legislatures in developing more appropriate guidelines that encourage keeping families together rather than permitting the use of mental illness as grounds for denying custody rights to parents with disabilities. - Child Custody Laws
This brief fact sheet provides a national overview of child custody laws as they apply to the use of mental illnesses as grounds for denying custody to parents with psychiatric disabilities, as well as recommendations for challenging current discriminatory laws through education (of lawyers and judges), public awareness, and legislative change. - Myths About Parents with Mental Illnesses
This brief fact sheet looks at the prevailing myths about parents with mental illnesses (e.g., that they are unwilling or unable to care adequately for their own children, etc.) with the evidence-based facts with regard to parenting performance and long-term outcomes – a useful guide to consumers and advocates. - Foster Care and Custody
This brief fact sheet provides an overview of national and state foster care services and the way in which foster care systems interact with children and parents when the parents have been denied custody of their own children due to mental illnesses. Suggestions are provided for parents and others interacting with foster care providers. - Trauma: The Impact of Removing Children from the Home
This brief fact sheet provides an overview of current research that explores the impact of removing children from the home, with an emphasis on the trauma experiences in those instances where children have been removed due to court determination that the parent is unable to care for their children due to mental illness. - Supporting Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities: A Training Program for MH Personnel.
The Temple University Collaborative has developed an intensive training program to assist mental health workers in supporting parents with psychiatric disabilities to be better parents and to avoid the loss of custody of their children. The materials provided here can be used to structure training programs or as individual resources for staff and parents. - Helping Behavioral Health Consumers with Parenting/Child Custody Issues – Training Manual
This in-depth manual provides a detailed guideline for trainers developing programs to assist consumers with psychiatric disabilities in improving their parenting skills, learning more about child custody issues, and either avoiding the loss of custody of their children or regaining custody of their children – with curriculum, PowerPoints, and exercises. - Helping Behavioral Health Consumers with Parenting/Child Custody Issues – PowerPoints
The Temple University Collaborative’s training program PowerPoint presentations and training notes provide a step-by-step guideline to initial training for mental health personnel working to help consumers with psychiatric disabilities improve their parenting and avoid the loss of custody of their children. - Helping Behavioral Health Consumers with Parenting/Child Custody Issues – Group Exercises
The Temple University Collaborative’s training program included a number of large group and small group exercises to assist staff in preparing to work with consumers with psychiatric disabilities who are parents: a number of the exercises are available here, to be used in conjunction with the overall training program and PowerPoint provided above. - Custody Assessment Worksheet
This worksheet allows mental health personnel to make a comprehensive assessment of particular parents’ child custody arrangement, which may be complicated, as an aide to working with parents to improve parenting skills and prevent loss of custody. - Child Welfare and Custody issues
This fact sheet is designed for parents and their supporters and provides tips for navigating the child welfare and legal systems, if the parents’ custody rights are challenged: an important document for parents with psychiatric disabilities in facing system discrimination. - Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect Laws In Pennsylvania – A Training Handout
Dev eloped by a leader in the field of families and couples dealing with mental illnesses and child custody issues, this is a key guide for parents who have lost custody or are facing the possibility of custody loss: it includes a detailed overview of what constitutes child abuse and neglect in Pennsylvania, as well as a discussion of parents’ rights with regard to custody and family reunification. - Positive Parenting and Child Resilience – A Training Handout
This fact sheet provides evidence-based guidance to parents with regard to effective ways to provide ‘positive parenting’ that can increase resiliency in children and also prevent custody loss. - A Parenting Resources Worksheet
This work sheet provides a template for services to generate a list of local resources for parents with psychiatric disabilities, including legal, housing, emergency respite services, and childcare, etc. - Keeping Your Children and Getting Them Back: A Training Program for Parents
- Keeping Your Children and Getting Them Back: Section I – Guidebook
This trainers’ guide provides a comprehensive overview for training mental health personnel to assist consumers with psychiatric disabilities in learning more about child abuse laws and the child custody issues with which they must be aware – developed by consultants to the Temple University Collaborative - Keeping Your Children and Getting Them Back: Section II – Handouts
This addendum to Section I provides access to key handouts for the training program on Keeping Your Children and Getting Them Back, including handouts on: a) Child Welfare and Custody Issues, Positive Parenting and Child Resilience, A Parenting Resources Worksheet, and a listing of Additional Resources for Parents.
Other Parenting Resources
- Parenting with a Mental Illness: Programs and Resources Guide
This guide is a comprehensive resource to help parents, providers, and advocates find information about programs in their area that can assist consumers in becoming better parents, learning more about child neglect and child custody laws, and gaining legal assistance if their custody of their children is being challenged. - Parenting with a Mental Illness: Proceedings of a Teleconference
Sponsored by Mental health America Affiliates, this teleconference for their affiliates – on May 9, 2007 – was designed to increase participants’ knowledge about: custody issues for parents with psychiatric disabilities; strategies to address barriers to custody; and appropriate supports for parents: these PowerPoints provide an overview of the teleconference’s proceedings. - Preventing Custody Loss: Suggestions for Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities
The best way to prevent custody loss is to have a plan that helps consumers improve their parenting skills while managing their disability: this brief tool provides suggestions on how to create a plan to protect the best interests of your child and to demonstrate your maturity as a parent. - Learn About Special Needs Trusts
A Special Needs Trust can be created by a parent or guardian to benefit a person with a disability upon the death of a parent, allowing consumers to benefit from the trust while continuing to receive public benefits. These materials were developed by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law with support from the Temple University Collaborative.
Peer Support/Consumer-Run Services/Peer Specialists
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Salzer, M.S., Katz, J., Kidwell, B., Federici, M., & Ward-Colasante, C. (2009). “Pennsylvania Certified Peer Specialist Initiative: Training, Employment, and Work Satisfaction Outcomes.” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 32, 293-297.
- Salzer, M.S., Schwenk, E., & Brusilovskiy, E. (2010). “Certified Peer Specialist Roles and Activities: Results from a National Survey.” Psychiatric Services, 61, 520-523.
- Salzer, M.S., & Kundra, L.B. (2010). “Liability Issues Associated With Referrals to Self-Help Groups.” Psychiatric Services, 61, 6-8.
- Solomon, P. (2004). “Peer support/peer provider services: Underlying processes, benefits, and critical ingredients.” Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 27, 392-401.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Into the Thick of Things: Connecting Consumers to Community Life
This 50-page compendium of three-dozen community inclusion initiatives currently provided by a national sample of consumer-run programs for people with psychiatric disabilities provides an inspiring set of alternatives that consumer-run agencies can use as a resource for transforming their own programs – with very helpful contact information for each spotlighted agency. - Helping People Connect to the Religious Congregations and Spiritual Groups of Tehir Choice: The Role of Peer Specialists
The Temple Collaborative announces the publication of a new monograph exploring the roles that peer specialists can play in helping the people they serve to connect to the mainstream religion congregations and spiritual groups of their choice. Part of a series of documents that explore the roles that peer specialists play promoting community inclusion of service recipients in a variety of life domains, this monograph explores core issues, describes peer specialist experiences from a national series of interviews, and offers six recommendations - all focused on helping interested consumers to connect or reconnect to the faith-based organizations and congregations of their choice.
This document is also available in 14 point Verdana font here. - Certified Peer Specialist Training Programs
Developed by the Temple University Collaborative for the Peer Specialist Alliance of America, this document provides descriptions of a wide range of Certified Peer Specialist training programs in thirteen states, with an outline of competencies covered, eligibility criteria, and evaluative mechanisms – along with contact information for each training program. - Peer Support: Developing and Facilitating Self-Help Groups
This three-page guide, plus a resource list, contains practical information about planning and facilitating a peer-led self-help group meeting, with basic information on developing effective group meetings, a sample agenda, and facilitation tools that use active listening and conflict resolution to maintain a good meeting. - Results of a National Survey of Certified Peer Specialists: Job Titles and Job Descriptions
The Temple University Collaborative surveyed 275 Certified Peer Specialists in paid CPS positions across the country, and presented here is a discussion of the wide variety of job titles that CPS staff work under and the varied descriptions – in the CPS respondents’ own words – of their job roles and responsibilities. - The 2006 Statewide Survey of Drop-In Centers in Pennsylvania
Drop In Centers for individuals with psychiatric disabilities were surveyed in 2006 for information on their operations and staff, level of consumer involvement, common activities, and operational challenges – providing an overall portrait of drop-in center programming and community inclusion activities in the Pennsylvania mental health system.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- If I Have a Psychiatric Disability, Will Health Reform Help Me?
Developed by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, with support from the Temple University Collaborative, this fact sheet from 2009 discusses the proposed health reform legislation and its likely impacts on adults with psychiatric disabilities and potential improvements to mental health services across the country. - Will Health Care Reform Affect Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities?
Developed by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, with support from the Temple University Collaborative, this document discusses the health reform bills passed by Congress in late 2009 – and their impact on individuals with psychiatric disabilities and the delivery of mental health services.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Recreation and Leisure for Older Adults with Psychiatric Disabilities
This is a brief set of guidelines providing tips to older adults with psychiatric disabilities to assist them in becoming actively involved in recreational and leisure activities in their communities, along with resources from a wide range of recreational and leisure activity programs. - Promoting Community Inclusion Through Leisure and Recreation
Research indicates that recreational activities of all kinds can play an essential part in the building of social networks for people with psychiatric disabilities: this document provides an overview of reliable strategies for finding, linking to, and enjoying recreational activities in community settings. - The Social Enhancement Workbook
The Social Enhancement Workbook provides a step-by-step guide to consumers , case managers and other support personnel with regard to increasing the consumer’s participation in a wide range of social activities in community settings: tested in a variety of community mental health and psychosocial programs, the ‘workbook’ is a useful guide to groups and individuals.
Relationships – Family, Friends, Intimacy
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Marshall, T. & Solomon, P. (2003). “Professionals’ responsibilities in releasing information to families of adults with mental illness.” Psychiatric Services, 54, 1622-1628.
- Marshall, T. & Solomon, P. (2004). “Confidentiality intervention: Effects on provider-Consumer-Family Collaboration.” Research on Social Work Practice, 14, 3-13.
- Marshall, T. & Solomon, P. (2004). “Provider contact with families of adults with severe mental illness: Taking a closer look.” Family Process, 43, 209-216.
- Solomon, P., Cavanaugh, M. & Gelles, R. (2005). “Family violence among adults with severe mental illness: a neglected area of research.” Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 6, 40-54.
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Addressing The Intimacy Interests of People with Mental Health Conditions: Acknowledging Consumer Desires, Provider Discomforts, and System Denial
The Temple University Collaborative announces the availability of a new monograph focusing upon the intimacy concerns of individuals with mental health conditions. Acknowledging that sexual intimacy is a lifelong priority for all men and women, the monograph reviews current mental health research on the topic, the issues raised by men and women with mental health conditions with regard to the barriers they face in developing satisfactory intimate lives, and the uneasiness of most community mental health practitioners in discussing intimacy and sexuality with the people they serve. The monograph, which offers initial recommendations for the mental health community, seeks to initiate a national dialogue on these issues. - For Family Members and Supporters
Family members and other supporters of people with mental illnesses can play a key role in the treatment and recovery process for people with psychiatric disabilities: this Temple University Collaborative tool provides suggestions for family members and friends about the ways they can provide encouragement, foster hope and support self-determination. - Intimate Relationships
This brief document provides consumers and staff with a framework in which to begin talking together about the issue of intimate relationships and the importance of managing romantic involvements and the development of long-term partnerships with significant others in a responsible and productive fashion. - Natural Supports: Developing a Personal Support System
Natural supports – the relationships with family, friends, colleagues at work, and the casual contacts everyone makes in attending a gym or going to school or going to church services, etc. – are all part of everyday natural supports: this brief documents provides guidelines to help consumers build their own network of natural supports in the community.
Self-Determination/Psychiatric Advanced Directives/Self-Directed Care
Toolkits/Monographs/Guidebooks
- Psychiatric Advance Directives: Pros, Cons, and Next Steps
Psychiatric Advance Directives are documents that provide an individual with psychiatric disabilities with the opportunity, when well, to express their treatment preferences with they are not well. These materials discuss the pros and cons associated with the use of PADs, and offers tips and additional resources for those who use PADS or implement PADs for others. - In the Driver’s Seat: A Guide to Self-Directed Mental Health Care
Self-directed care programs in the mental health field allow consumers to better control the use of public dollars on the psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation services they receive: this brief document answers key questions about self-directed care, providing definitions, models, and programmatic guidelines. - Advanced Self Advocacy Plan – A Planning Document
The Advance Self-Advocacy Plan (ASAP) is an easy-to-use customizable plan for people who want to create a Psychiatric Advanced Directive or Mental Health Crisis Plan: it is a practical and use-friendly tool that can be used by people with mental illnesses to keep them ‘in the driver’s seat’ with regard to their own psychiatric care and personal life – even in times of psychiatric crises. - Advanced Self Advocacy Plan – A Guidebook
The ASAP Guidebook is a companion to the Advanced Self Advocacy Plan, which addresses mental health planning needs in a simple, inviting, and easy-to-use format: it discusses inpatient treatment options, and contains information about keeping personal responsibilities – finances, employment, education, mail, the care of children, etc. - on track during periods of crisis or hospitalization.