Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness

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.

Discussion of evidence-based practices in the mental health arena from the perspective of consumers, many of whom feel that there is a risk to consumer recovery and empowerment when evidence-based practices are funded and encouraged without equivalent funding to innovations coming from the consumers themselves.

Discussion paper from Psychiatric Services on approaches to having consumers and consumer advocates in recovery be supportive of incorporating evidence-based practices into practice in the mental health field.

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.

Presentation by Jean Campbell at June 20004 conference presented by Real System Change grant in Oregon. Presentation discusses the development and need for evidence-based practices module for community peer support programs.

This document highlights the Village Integrated Service Agency, a program of the Mental Health Association in Los Angeles County. The program provides coordinated, comprehensive services for people with mental illness. Available services are determined by the needs and goals of the participants. This report describes the program and its effectiveness in helping people with mental illness live independently.

The purpose for this request for proposals (RFP) was to solicit proposals from qualified entities to provide under contract with the Department of Human Services a state-wide web-based online consumer information resource, personal assessment, and directory of services for people who are aging and people with disabilities, including developmental disabilities and mental illness.