How Can Consumer Direction Really Be Right For Everyone? - Technical Assistance Presentation

Article Publication Date:

1/13/2010

Summary:

What are the goals of consumer direction? Does mental illness affect consumer direction of community-based care? This presentation addresses these and other tough questions faced in planning and implementing participant-directed programs. Information on consumer assessments, representatives, and common sense approaches and intervention are discussed, as well as additional tools and resources.

Article Author:

Crisp, Suzanne; Simon-Rusinowitz, Lori; Loughlin, Dawn; Barrett, Sandy

Topics:

Consumer/Participant Direction

Types/Tools:

Archived conference materials / Presentations; Training materials

Populations:

Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness

Sources:

NRCPDS

Programs/Initiatives:

Cash and Counseling