This weekly calendar and journal celebrate the stories of individuals with serious mental illness who have made a difference in their communities. These stories highlight the power of community participation to foster connection and a feeling of mattering. We’re inviting you to explore these stories and reflect on what inspires to make a difference in your own community.
This document discusses how you can reduce your stress by taking care of your mental and emotional health. Working at staying healthy emotionally will reduce your stress; it might improve your mental health so you have fewer symptoms or less of a need for emergency interventions.
An important part of parenting is knowing what to expect from your child at any given age. As they grow, children change and acquire skills, and they require different things from you. This document highlights some of the things you might expect to see in your young child.
This document is designed to support individuals to develop and share stories of community participation. It can be used by individuals to create their own story or used to support others to develop stories. This document is designed to support individuals to develop and share stories of community participation. It can be used by individuals to create their own story or used to support others to develop stories.
This comic is a collaboration between Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research (CeKTER) and the Temple University Collaborative (ACL grant #’s 90RTCP0001 & # 90RT5021). It is based on work by Gretchen Snethen, PhD, CTRS, and colleagues. The comic shows an example of how workers with disabilities can be supported at work.
This two-part non-partisan document series focuses on why voting is important and how practitioners can support individuals experiencing mental health challenges to vote.
Visual abstract for the article entitled Child Protective Service Disparities and Serious Mental Illnesses: Results From a National Survey. Article written by Katy Kaplan et al. Psychiatric Services, 2019.
Following more than six years of participatory action activities at peer support workforce conferences, three researchers and practitioners with lived experience, Jeremy Reuling, Rita Cronise, and Jessica Wolf, have developed this agenda identifying ten peer support workforce priorities with recommendations for action based on what they heard from members of the workforce. The Action Agenda can be used both to improve stakeholders’ understanding of challenges faced by the peer workforce, and as a guide to specific strategies to address them effectively at all stakeholder levels.
This document has been endorsed by the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion, Alliance for Rights and Recovery, Pat Deegan, Ph.D. & Associates, and the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association.
Visual abstract for the article entitled Participation in Arts and Culture Among Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses and It’s Relationship to Quality of Life and Recovery. Article written by Crystal M Slanzi et al. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, December 2022.
This document serves as an informational primer for the growing subfield of peer support services for deaf individuals experiencing mental health challenges. Along with providing information about the topic, it also outlines the various benefits afforded to deaf clients by having access to deaf peers and includes links to additional resources for those seeking to learn more