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Using Social Media to Enhance Community Participation
This guide explores how those with mental illnesses can use social media to increase community involvement. It covers popular platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, MeetUp, and Yelp, and analyzes their features, as well as potential risks and considerations associated with social media use.
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County Mental Health Administrators Toolkit for Promoting Community Inclusion
This 27-page document addresses the roles that mental health administrators at the county level can play in promoting community inclusion, with an emphasis on policy development, establishing funding priorities, encouraging system-wide and staff training, and evaluating outcomes.
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Tackling Mental Health Prejudice and Discrimination
This document provides guidance on anti-prejudice and anti-discrimination initiatives for individuals with mental health conditions, particularly those involved in peer-run programs, to promote genuine community inclusion.
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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.
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Serving Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities in Centers for Independent Living
This revised publication from the Temple University Collaborative provides Centers for Independent Living (CIL) staff with clear and current information to help them better respond to the needs of people in recovery from mental illnesses and provides brief responses to twelve frequently asked questions.
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Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination
This document discusses discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, class, and religion, with suggestions on how providers can incorporate cultural competency standards into their daily practice.
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Pioneer Center Report
In the Summer of 2015, the Pioneer Center asked Temple University Collaborative to conduct an evaluation of their community inclusion policies, programs, and practices, which resulted in this formative evaluation report detailing their progress thus far.
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Philadelphia DBH/MRS Tools for Transformation: Community Integration
Produced by the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health, this resource packet offers a comprehensive understanding of key recovery concepts for persons in recovery, their families, service providers, and City staff. It serves as a valuable training tool, introducing the importance of recovery in program design.
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Managing Risk in Community Inclusion: Promoting the Dignity of Risk and Personal Choice
This 52 page document details the concepts of community inclusion, the types of risk that are of concern to different parties, and 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.
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Into the Thick of Things: Connecting Consumers to Community Life
The document highlights three dozen community inclusion initiatives provided by consumer-run programs for people with psychiatric disabilities, serving as a resource for other agencies looking to transform their programs. Contact information for each agency is included.
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Helping People with Mental Health Conditions Prepare for Disasters
This document focuses on the vulnerability of individuals with mental health conditions to disasters and how being prepared can minimize the impact. It suggests ways to plan ahead and highlights the role of peer specialists in helping them do so.
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Hard To Be Out There If We Are Focused on Here
This document provides ideas, co-created with Center staff and allies, for Peer/Recovery/Wellness/Drop-in Centers to enhance their role in promoting community inclusion and participation within the mental health system.
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Funding the Future: Managing your Money and Building Your Assets
This toolkit, based on information gathered from a national survey of rehabilitation programs and consumer-run services, addresses managing money in regards to community participation and addresses the fundamentals of financial literacy as well as three asset building strategies.
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Community Participation and Inclusion: Shifting Perspectives on Quality Measures
The Temple University Collaborative provides recommendations to assess community participation needs of mental health service recipients and agency success. This monograph reviews their guidelines for the behavioral managed care industry and administrators at all levels.
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Centers for Independent Living Fact Sheets
This document highlights Centers for Independent Living (CILs), which provide skills training, peer support, advocacy, and services to people with disabilities. The document focuses on how individuals with psychiatric disabilities can benefit from utilizing services at CILs.
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Building An Online Presence: Using Online Media to Promote Community Inclusion
This toolkit suggests using social media and web-based communication to promote community living for individuals with mental health conditions. It explores connecting individuals to mainstream community resources, showcasing community participation, and generating community inclusion content.
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Behavioral Health Managed Care Entities: Important Partnerships in Promoting Community Inclusion
This toolkit suggests a dozen practical strategies that behavioral managed care companies (BHMC) can use to facilitate service participation in their communities, and provides readings and key resources for the BHMCs to use in these initiatives.
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