Mental Health &
Rehabilitation eCast
January 2007
The Mental Health &
Rehabilitation eCast is a monthly emailed newsletter with the purpose
of informing mental health and rehabilitation networks worldwide about
the activities and resources produced by the Center for Psychiatric
Rehabilitation as well as for disseminating general mental health and
rehabilitation news.
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Guide to Creating a Statewide
Anti-Stigma Campaign Available
Developing a Stigma Reduction
Initiative is designed to support the activities of those who plan and
implement a statewide, regional, or local effort to address and
counter stigma and discrimination. This free kit offers guidance on
how to implement an initiative, sample materials and templates to use
in developing communication materials, tactics to enhance outreach
efforts, and directories of resources for creating public education
materials. A schools training package and business materials to create
mental health-friendly environments are also provided. http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/sma06-4176/
Manual Describes Community
Integration Supports Development
Are you an agency or organization
working to assist people in their recovery and promote community
integration? If so, this manual addresses that need. Community Links
is a voluntary program that matches peers or community members with
people who:
(a) have court orders of non-hospitalization or involuntary
commitment;
(b) are dependent on the mental health system for assistance and
support; and/or
(c) feel isolated from their community due to mental health
difficulties.
This program is based on the
findings of the Moving Ahead Research Project (Shery Mead and Mary
Ellen Copeland, co-principal investigators, Vermont Real Choices
Grant, 2004). The manual includes complete instructions for developing
and administering a Community Links Program including a three-day
training for links, and a CD with the slides and handouts for the
training. Community Links: Pathways to Reconnection and Recovery is
available through the mental health recovery website at www.mentalhealthrecovery.com; by phone 802-425-3660 or fax: 802-425-5580;
or by email at [log in to unmask]. The cost is $70 for the manual and
CD.
Empowerment Scale Goes
Multilingual
The Empowerment Scale, a 28-item
instrument designed to measure subjective feelings of empowerment, is
being translated into numerous languages for use in a Pan-European
study involving 20 countries across Europe. The study being conducted
by the Institute of Psychiatry at Kingís College in London is the
latest among many organizations and settings within the United States
and other countries to adopt the use of the instrument. The
Empowerment Scale was developed at the Center for Psychiatric
Rehabilitation at Boston University with the assistance of a
consumer advisory board (Rogers, Chamberlin, Ellison and Crean, 1997).
The scale is best used in studies where the focus is on adults
receiving services for mental health issues and when administered more
than once to determine change over time. For additional
information, email E. Sally Rogers at [log in to unmask].
National Institute of Mental
Health
Requests Input on Research Questions
The National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH) is seeking input from the clinical research community,
mental health professionals, patient advocates and individuals living
with mental illnesses, private and public mental health service
systems and providers, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry,
and other interested groups about important public mental health
research questions that could be addressed using the infrastructure
provided by three NIMH clinical research networks - the Bipolar Trials
Network (BTN), the Depression Trials Network (DTN), and the
Schizophrenia Trials Network (STN). For more information, go to
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MH-06-128.html
Funding Opportunities for
Researchers
from National Institute of Health
Behavioral & Integrative
Treatment Development Program
Building Translational Research in
Integrative Behavioral Science
Clinical Research on Mental
Illnesses in Older Adults
Community-Based Participatory
Research at NIMH
Co-Occurring Mental Illness, Alcohol
and/or Drug Abuse & Medical Conditions
Effectiveness, Practice, And
Implementation In CMHSí Comprehensive Community Mental Health
Services Program for Children and their Families Service
Sites
Methodology and Measurement in the
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Reducing Mental Illness Stigma And
Discrimination
Refining and Testing Mental Health
Interventions and Services for Youth with Mental Illness who are
Transitioning to Adulthood
Research on Mind-Body Interactions
and Health
Research Project Grant
Research On Adherence To
Interventions For Mental Disorders
Research On The Reduction And
Prevention Of Suicidality
Research on Rural Mental Health and
Drug Abuse Disorders
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This eCast is jointly supported by
the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration and the National Institute on
Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), Department of
Education.
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Bryan Dague, Ed.D.
University of Vermont
Center on Disability & Community Inclusion
Mann Hall, 3rd Floor
208 Colchester Ave.
Burlington, VT 05405-1757
Email:
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Phone: (802) 656-1345
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