Human Services

Draft version of paper created by the grantees of SAMHSA/RWJ Evidence-based Preactices Project. This paper answers questions about supported employment for persons in recovery from a mental illness. This version is directed to consumers as an audience.

Draft version of paper created by the grantees of SAMHSA/RWJ Evidence-based Preactices Project. This paper answers questions about supported employment for persons in recovery from a mental illness. This version is directed to program leaders as an audience.

DRAFT version of paper on integrating treatment for co-occurring disorders for individuals with both a mental illness and a substatnce abuse disorder. Paper focus is on information for consumers' families and other supporters. Part of the toolkit in the RWJ/SAMHSA evidence-based practices project.

DRAFT document of the SAMHSA/RWJ project on evidence-based practices addressing the issues surrounding the importance of evidence-based practices for persons with both a mental health and substance abuse diagnosis.

This website offers a summary of the RWJ/SAMHSA evidence-based practices project, including descriptions of the EBP programs chosen for inclusion in the project. This is a good introduction to the evidence-based practices work in mental health.

Executive Summary of the 1999 Summit of Mental Health Consumers in which they developed consensus around the issues of greatest concern to consumers and survivors and created action a platform for future work.

SAMHSA newsletter article describing briefly six evidence-based practices that are effective for persons who experience mental illness and which are the focus of SAMHSA's national project on evidence-based practices. Components of the six Evidence-Based Practices toolkits are similar, but the practices themselves are diverse, and they may be unfamiliar to some practitioners and supervisors in the field today.

SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is currently sponsoring a national project to promote the widespread adoption of six evidence-based practices (EBPs)—treatments that have consistently proven to generate positive outcomes for adults with serious mental illness. Specifically, project teams are working to develop, test, revise, and disseminate comprehensive resource toolkits that will enable practitioners to replicate EBPs successfully and reap the benefits in community settings.

This report addresses the liability issues that may arise in government-sponsored consumer-directed personal assistance programs. The report focuses on Cash & Counseling Demonstration programs in AR, FL & NJ, In-Home Supportive Services Program in CA & Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Program in NY. The reports purpose: first, identify circumstances where negligence could result in liability and what persons are likely to be liable; second, identify steps to reduce exposure to liability.

This document focuses on Sunrise Towers, a public housing complex for older people in Laconia, New Hampshire. This form of public housing is modeled after assisted living and provides meals and personal assistance to keep residents in the community. The document describes the program, the services the program offers, and funding sources.