Stakeholder Involvement

Getting consumers to serve on your board can be difficult. Getting consumers who are knowledgeable about serving on boards can be even more difficult. However, including at the table those who are most impacted by your services and decisions is a great opportunity with valuable benefits.This article appeared in an issue brief from the Center for Medicare Education.

Medstat identified common factors of system change in a six-page brief, based on a review of organization transformation literature and, more importantly, the experiences of eight state long-term support systems that were the subject of a series of case studies on comprehensive system reform.

The Centers on Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded a three year contract to the Topeka Independent Living Resource Center (TILRC) to provide technical assistance to the Consumer Task Forces Real Choice system change grant projects. In doing this, CMS highlighted the contributions that consumers can and must make to the success of the grants and to increasing access to community living services more generally. This website offers a list of grant projects, tip sheets and survey tools.

Service providers, schools, parks departments, public health agencies and other organizations make decisions and policies that profoundly affect the health, employment, income and well-being of people with disabilities. This capacity carries the obligation to involve the people most affected by including individuals with disabilities in the decision-making process. This Practice Guideline offers suggestions on how to involve people with disabilities as active members and advisors of your group.

New York Office of Mental Health website on evidence-based practices. Description of wellness self management for individuals experiencing recovery from a mental illness. Users will also find resources on Medicare D, RFPs, Provider Guidance documents, resources and webcasts

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.

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.

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.

This brief examines the efforts of a local area systems collaboration. In order to better understand partnership and collaboration at a local level, the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on State Systems and Employment at the Institute for Community Inclusion facilitated a collaboration to assist state systems in a local area to address employment services for people with disabilities.