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Jan. 31 Is the Extended Deadline to Comment on the SSA’s Latest in a “Long List of Harmful Disability Measures”!
It’s not too late to submit your comment on the Social Security Administration’s proposed plan that “caps off a long list of harmful disability measures that have fallen below the radar of the public and the media,” The New York Times reports. The deadline for comments has been extended to January 31, 2020! According to the SSA’s description of its “Rules Regarding the Frequency and Notice of Continuing Disability Reviews,” “We propose to revise our regulations regarding when and how often we conduct continuing disability reviews (CDR), which are periodic reviews of eligibility required for benefit continuation…” The SSA’s proposal, announced on November 18, 2019, involves conducting “roughly 2.6 million additional eligibility reviews of adults and children currently receiving Social Security disability benefits in the next decade,” the Times reports. “If undertaken, the change would be likely to result in the loss of benefits for many thousands of disabled citizens of all ages.” For the New York Times article, click here. To submit a comment by January 31, click here.
Peerpocalypse 2020 (Which Will Incorporate Elements of the Alternatives Conference) Announces Exciting Workshops!
The organizers of Peerpocalypse 2020, to be held in Seaside, Oregon, April 20-23, 2020, have announced the conference’s great workshop schedule! It includes such inspiring and informative topics as “Nothing About Us Without Us: Peer Collaboration in Research”; “Punk Rock Recovery: Trauma, Addiction, Psychosis and Raw Power”; “Let’s Empower and Disrupt,” “Zip Zap Zop! Active Mindfulness Through Theater Games”; “Peer Specialists in the Mental Health Workforce: A Critical Reassessment,” and dozens more! (Peerpocalypse will incorporate elements of the Alternatives conference.) For the complete workshop schedule, scroll down at this link (click here). For information about the spellbinding keynote speakers, click here. To register, click here.
Raising the Minimum Wage by $1 May Prevent Thousands of Suicides, Researchers Say
“A new study suggests that raising the minimum wage might lower the suicide rate—especially when unemployment is high—and that doing so might have saved tens of thousands of people from dying by suicide in the last quarter century,” NPR reports. “The minimum federal minimum wage is $7.25, though many states have set it higher. Between 1990 and 2015, raising the minimum wage by $1 in each state might have saved more than 27,000 lives, according to a [recent] report published…in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. An increase of $2 in each state's minimum wage could have prevented more than 57,000 suicides,” NPR reports. “The study is the third in less than a year to show that raising the minimum wage may lower suicide rates…” For the article, click here. For more about the social determinants of mental health, click here.
Courtesy of Jacek Haciak
“Crisis Engagement Strategies” Is the Next Webinar to Be Hosted by Doors to Wellbeing
On January 28, 2020, at 2 p.m. ET, Doors to Wellbeing will host a free one-hour webinar on “Crisis Engagement Strategies.” “In acute and crisis situations, peer support specialists can become an essential part of the recovery process for individuals under duress,” Doors to Wellbeing writes. “Peer support specialists engage, empower, and advocate for people in acute and crisis settings.” The learning objectives are “List at least three ways to engage with peers in crisis that align with the Ten Essential Values of Responding to Mental Health Crises,” “List the Six Principles of the trauma-informed approach,” and “Describe at least three strategies to maintain your own wellness when working with people in crisis.” To register, click here.
NCMHR Seeks Responses to Its Surveys on Seclusion and Restraint
“In its most recent legislative priorities, the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR) aims to reduce restraint and seclusion practices in a variety of institutional settings in the United States,” the NCMHR writes. “Many efforts have been made in this area for the past several decades, and some of them have led to significant changes in regulations and practice. These surveys are an effort to glean information about where we stand today, and how far we still have to go…Your input is very important to us, and will help shape future discussions about this topic. The examples you give in the comment boxes will be especially important in this process of understanding current practices in these settings…If you have experienced restraint or seclusion, click here. If you have worked for an organization that utilizes restraint or seclusion practices, click here. If both apply, please feel free to fill out both surveys. Please pass this on to anyone else in your network with one or both of these experiences.” Although your responses will be anonymous, if you would like to be added to the NCMHR email list, you may include your email at the end of the survey.
Apply by Feb. 3, 2020, for “Capacity Building Opportunity” for Peer-Run and Other Organizations
SAMHSA’s 2020 Capacity Building Opportunity will offer intensive individualized consultation, training, and peer-to-peer support for up to 25 peer-run, recovery community, family-run, collegiate recovery, recovery high schools, or youth and young adult-run organizations in one of the five designated focus areas: Partnering With State Systems to Advance Recovery, Developing an Integrated Workforce, Building Infrastructure and Organizational Capacity, Sustaining Access to Treatment and Recovery in Educational Settings, and Supporting Reintegration. (Previous recipients ARE eligible to apply.) The BRSS TACS team will provide intensive technical assistance to successful applicants from March to August 2020. For more information and to apply, click here.
Participants Needed for Research Study of Client Engagement in Therapy
“If you are 18 years or older, have been diagnosed with a serious mental health condition that results in significant impairment in at least one life area—social relationships, ability to work, completing daily living activities, or meeting basic needs—and currently receive outpatient therapy, you are eligible to participate in an IRB-approved study of the interactions between clients and therapists and how they impact engagement in therapy,” writes Jason Mallonee, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. “The study’s goal is to demonstrate the importance of recovery-oriented practices—including therapist empathy and a collaborative working alliance—and avoiding coercive practices on engagement in outpatient therapy. The online survey should take 20 to 30 minutes to complete. The first 100 participants who complete the survey and provide their name, phone number, and email address will receive a $10 Amazon gift card. (Your personal information will not be connected to your survey responses.)” If you are interested in participating, please contact Jason Mallonee (co-Investigator) at 808-639-3369 or mallonee@upenn.edu.
$8 Billion Verdict in Psychiatric Drug Lawsuit Is Reduced to $6.8 Million
“A Philadelphia judge lowered the damages in a case that claimed Johnson & Johnson played down the risks of an antipsychotic drug,” The New York Times reported on January 17, 2020. The judge “slashed an $8 billion jury verdict in a lawsuit over the marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, reducing the punitive damages to $6.8 million. The verdict, in October, was the first to award punitive damages against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary. It found that the company had played down the drug’s risks, which could lead to breast growth in boys…The lawsuit accused Janssen of failing to warn doctors about Risperdal’s risks while improperly marketing it as a treatment for certain mental health disorders in children. Compensatory damages of $680,000 were already awarded in the case in March 2016.” A Janssen spokesman applauded the reduced damages but said the company would still appeal the verdict because “[t]he company was precluded from presenting a meaningful defense due to the court’s exclusion of key evidence.” But a lawyer for the plaintiffs, including more than 10,000 in similar lawsuits, said the ruling would be appealed. “He said the reduced verdict ‘provides essentially no punishment for the worst of the worst of corporate misconduct.’” For the New York Times article, click here.
To Support iNAPS’s “One Classification Counts” Campaign, Take Its Survey
The International Association of Peer Supporters (iNAPS) is calling on all peer workers—regardless of job title, population served, or workplace setting—to complete a one-minute survey indicating their job title (and providing a little more information), to help with its “One Classification Counts” campaign. iNAPS writes: “What is this campaign and why is one classification important to peer support specialists? Currently, the Department of Labor (DOL) does not recognize peer support work as a unique occupation. Because there are hundreds of different job titles, peer support ends up classified under a number of different helping professions, many of which do not require (and sometimes actively prohibit) having and sharing lived experience as a defining feature.” For more about the background and goal of the campaign, click here. To take the survey, click here.
Free Webinar on Innovative Approaches to Housing for People with Opioid Use Disorder
On January 30, 2020, at 12 p.m. ET, Abt Associates will host a one-hour webinar on “Innovative Approaches to Housing for People with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).” “Housing is critical to health and well-being, which makes addressing the link between substance use disorders and housing instability all the more important as communities seek to address the opioid epidemic,” Abt writes. The webinar will cover two “housing models that support recovery from opioid use disorder”: HousingNow and HomeSafe. “Join Abt experts and representatives of these two programs during this free webinar to learn about challenges and solutions to providing housing for individuals with OUD, including how these models can be replicated in other communities.” For more information and to register, click here.
The Next Webinar in SAMHSA’s Series Is on February 6, 2020
SAMHSA is offering a free webinar series to introduce participants to “many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery.” The next webinar in the series is “Supported Education: Supporting Individuals to Begin or Return to Higher Education” (February 6, 2020, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.ET). To register, click here. For the rest of the schedule, please scroll down and see the complete schedule under “From Previous Editions of the Key Update but Still Fresh!”
Mad In America Invites You to Submit Your Personal Story (Within Certain Guidelines)
Mad In America writes: “A ‘personal story’ is defined as your story of being in relationship to psychiatry and/or the mental health system, whatever that means to you. It might involve your opinions and analysis of what happened to you, as well. It can be about a specific event, or about your overall journey, provided it fits the length requirements (1,500 to 3,000 words) and has a narrative arc. The piece should be about your personal experiences, not psychiatry or the mental health system in general. Submissions should fall under the theme of rethinking psychiatry and the mental health system, and should be original works not previously published elsewhere. For examples of the types of stories we publish, view our personal stories archive here.” For more information and/or to submit a personal story, click here.
Vera Institute of Justice Research Symposium (April 16-17, 2020, in NYC) Invites Submissions
“The Vera Institute of Justice invites the submission of papers to an interdisciplinary symposium exploring the use of incarceration in the United States. The unprecedented scale of incarceration in the United States has many political, economic, and social effects. We hope that you will join us for a research symposium that explores changes in the carceral landscape and their impacts on American society.” For details about submissions (deadline: February 9, 2020) and more about the conference, click here. (Scroll down for the January 2020 digest of articles about the criminal justice system, in which many people with mental health conditions are incarcerated.)
Philly Police End Practice of Releasing Mental Health Status of Missing Residents
“The Philadelphia Police Department says it has stopped releasing the mental health status of Philadelphia residents reported missing, something the department had been doing routinely for years,” Philadelphia Magazine reports. “The reversal comes less than two weeks after a Philly Mag investigation into the practice. We found hundreds of cases in which police included specific mental illness diagnoses such as depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and schizophrenia in press releases, bulletins and blog postings about missing residents. In the vast majority of these missing persons cases, the people were located quickly, but their diagnoses remained very much public…This all resulted in an ‘assault on privacy.’” The article notes that “police are now going through blog posts to delete sensitive mental health information.” However, as there are thousands of such blog posts, the police can’t “put a timetable on this.” For the article, click here.
Peer Support Conference in Canada to Be Held June 25-26, 2020
A peer support conference will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 25-26, 2020, at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown, 6083 McKay Avenue, Burnaby, BC. For more information, contact Sherry Sim, Event Manager, sherry@innovative4you.com. For this information, click here.
Courtesy of Elizabeth Stone
Memorial Design for Nellie Bly—Muckraking Author of “Ten Days in a Mad-House”—Has Been Revealed
“The design of a new memorial honoring investigative journalist Nellie Bly has been officially unveiled,” 6sqft reports. The memorial “will feature sculptures of Bly and four faces of women and girls who she interviewed.” It will be installed in late 2020 at the tip of Lighthouse Park on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Bly, who was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Pennsylvania in 1864, became well known “after she went undercover at the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum, located on what is now Roosevelt Island. She documented the cruel treatment and conditions of the asylum, later publishing a six-part story ‘Ten Days in a Mad-House.’ Her reporting led to an increase in funding for the asylum and removal of staff members who were abusive.” For the 6sqft article, click here. To read “Ten Days in a Mad-House,” click here.
The January 2020 Digest of Articles about Alternatives to Traditional Mental Health Treatment and Resources, and Healthy Lifestyle Advice
For “How to Feed Your Brain to Combat Stress,” click here. For “Coastal Living Linked with Better Mental Health,” click here. For “Plants can improve your work life: The mere sight of an indoor plant can reduce stress,” click here. For “Want to avoid the holiday blues? New report suggests skipping the sweet treats,” click here. For “Does diet influence mental health? Assessing the evidence: A new review takes a look at the evidence. Overall, the authors conclude that although nutrition certainly does appear to have an impact, there are still many gaps in our knowledge,” click here. For “How playing in a brass band could give your health a boost,” click here. For “Hope, Happiness and Social Connection: Hidden Benefits of Regular Exercise,” click here. For “Yoga, meditation and quiet: Homeless people in the Tenderloin flock to ‘healing’ nonprofit,” click here.
The January 2020 Digest of Articles about the Criminal Justice System, in Which Many Individuals with Mental Health Conditions Are Incarcerated (and the Key Update continues after this Digest)
Here is the January wrap-up of stories about the criminal justice system. (Note: Some of the titles and other language are not politically correct but are reproduced as written.) For “When Mental Illness Becomes a Jail Sentence: Arrestees who are mentally incompetent to stand trial are supposed to be sent for treatment. But thousands are being warehoused in jails for months without a conviction,” click here. Also see “When ‘Not Guilty’ Is a Life Sentence: What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity? Often the answer is involuntary confinement in a state psychiatric hospital—with no end in sight” (click here). For “L.A. County can help thousands of mentally ill inmates avoid arrest and homelessness, study finds,” click here. For “Too Sick for Jail But Not for Solitary: Tennessee locks ailing, mentally ill, pregnant and juvenile prisoners in isolation to help jails save money,” click here. For “2020: The Democrats on Criminal Justice,” click here. For “Can You Talk Your Way Out of a Life Sentence? California is giving a second chance to thousands of inmates who had no hope of parole. But first they have to prove to a panel of strangers that they’ve truly changed,” click here. For “What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants,” click here. For “Five States Join Initiative to Make Prisons More Human, Safe,” click here. For “D.C. jail inmates write, take photos and design their own monthly newspaper called Inside Scoop,” click here. For “ ‘Everyone is detained’: How probation detainers can keep people locked up indefinitely—even when they haven’t committed a crime,” click here. “For ‘All hope is not lost': Appalachian Prison Book Project aims to get more prisoners educated,” click here. For “Teen arrests drop steeply in Massachusetts after criminal justice reform,” click here. For “New report, Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2019, breaks down where children and teenagers are locked up in the U.S., where, and why: At a time when cutting the adult prison population by 50% seems radical to many people, states have already cut the number of confined youth by 60% since 2000,” click here. For “How to Fix Our Prisons? Let the Public Inside: We need a broad national effort to recruit and place volunteers to educate and counsel incarcerated people,” click here. For “The Hidden Cost of Incarceration: Prison costs taxpayers $80 billion a year. It costs some families everything they have,” click here. For “Anyone’s Son: Cody Dalton Eyre, a 20-year-old Alaskan Native, was having a mental health crisis on Christmas Eve, 2017 when his mother called 911 for help. So why did police officers end up shooting and killing him?” click here. For “Louisiana tried to help prisoners fight opioid addiction. Here’s why doctors objected,” click here. For “Through the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a small town’s silence—A rural Colorado cop knew Daniel Pierce was in a mental health crisis, but didn’t seek care before killing him. Town leaders tried to kill the story,” click here. For “Prisons neglect pregnant women in their healthcare policies: Our 50-state survey finds that in spite of national standards, most states lack important policies on prenatal care and nutrition for pregnant women,” click here. For “What Shaw Media [Illinois] is doing to help readers with expungement: A new initiative to serve the communities we live in,” click here. “For “Can You Hear Me Now? Prison officials tout video visitation’s convenience. Families say they’re paying high rates for second-rate service,” click here. For “New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy restores voting rights for 80,000 on probation or parole: NJ Gov. Murphy signed two bills on Wednesday morning to create a ‘clean slate,’” click here. For “A Second Chance in Kentucky: On Friday, I registered to vote after more than a decade in limbo,” click here. For “Arrest, Release, Repeat: How police and jails are misused to respond to social problems,” click here. For “California Is Letting Thousands of Prisoners Out Early. Its Housing Crisis Is Keeping Them From Starting Over: Many people end up in 12-step programs even if they don’t have addiction issues, or in other facilities that resemble the prisons they just left,” click here. For “In Indiana Prisons, Solitary Confinement by Another Name Still Feels Like Torture: ‘Restricted Movement Units’ Are Posed as an Alternative to Solitary—but the Isolation and Deprivation Persist,” click here.
FROM PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE KEY UPDATE BUT STILL FRESH!
SAMHSA Offers Free Webinar Series: Recovery from Serious Mental Health Conditions and the Practices that Support Recovery
SAMHSA is offering a free webinar series to introduce participants to “many of the evidence-based and promising practices that support recovery.” The schedule includes the following webinars (some of which have already taken place): “Key Elements of Recovery and Recovery Oriented Services” (12/18/19, 1p.m.-2 p.m. ET), Register; “Supported Employment: How to Support Someone with Obtaining and Maintaining Employment” (1/16/20, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET), Register; “Supported Education: Supporting Individuals to Begin or Return to Higher Education” (2/6/20 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.ET), Register; “Permanent Supportive Housing: Practices that Support Independent Community Living” (2/26/20 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET), Register; “Illness Management and Recovery: Self-Management Program Providing Psychoeducation, Relapse Planning, Coping and Social Skills Training, and Approaches for Medication Management” (3/10/20 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.ET), Register; “Peer Services: Peer Providers Offer Understanding, Respect, Mutual Empowerment, and Support to Others Through Use of Their Personal Experiences” (March 2020 TBA), Register: (Link to Follow); “Supervision of Peer Providers: Effective Supervision of Peers by Non-Peer Supervisors” (April 2020 TBA), Register: (Link to Follow); “Role of Health and Wellness in Recovery: Interventions to Reduce the High Rates of Morbidity and Mortality Among People with Serious Mental Illnesses” (4/23/20, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET), Register; “Role of Religion and Spirituality in Recovery: Benefits and Challenges of Religion and Spirituality in Recovery and Strategies for Navigating this Topic” (5/7/20 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET) Register; “Recovery in the Hispanic and Latinx Community: What is the Understanding of Recovery in the Hispanic and Latinx Community and How Can We Support It” (5/21/20 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET) Register. Questions? Contact Katty Rivera, M.Ed. (908.889.2552) katty@shp.shp.rutgers.edu.
Courtesy of NYAPRS E-News
Survey Seeks Respondents Who Are in Administrative/Leadership Positions in the Mental Health Field
If you are in an administrative/leadership position in the mental health arena, “the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) Committee on Psychiatric Administration and Leadership invites you to participate in the International Survey on Administrative Psychiatry. The survey has two purposes: 1. To identify the concerns and needs of mental health professionals/psychiatrists in administrative and leadership positions. 2. To determine training needs in administrative psychiatry. We ask you to complete this brief, [15- to 20-minute] questionnaire to help us in developing recommendations for action. We also want to let you know that, if you fill out this questionnaire, you permit the committee to use your anonymous data for scientific work.” Peer providers are included. For the survey, click here.
Courtesy of Oryx Cohen
Free Resources for Peer Worker Supervisors Are Posted on the iNAPS Website
The International Association of Peer Supporters (iNAPS) has posted an array of resources for supervisors of peer support staff. The sources of the 18 disparate resources include the Transformation Center, the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), the Café TA Center, the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), the Carter Center, the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network, SAMHSA-HRSA and the Center for Integrated Health Solutions, and other organizations and individual experts. For the peer support supervision resources, click here.
If You Have Experienced Psychosis, “Psychosis Beyond the Box” Wants to Hear From You.
“Psychosis Beyond the Box” seeks to gather anonymous descriptions of “aspects of psychosis that are often neglected, such as felt presences, visual or quasi-visual experiences, and alterations of space, time or distance,” as well as strategies to help with any distressing or challenging aspects of the experiences. The narratives will be compiled and shared in early psychosis programs and other service settings across the U.S. A major aim of the project—which is not a research project—is “to validate the diverse range of things people with psychosis experience, and help people, especially young adults experiencing psychosis for the first time, feel less alone and isolated (in these experiences).” For more information about the project, based at the University of South Florida, or to share your story, click here. Questions? Write to Nev Jones (genevra@usf.edu) or ShannonPagdon@gmail.com.
“Experiences with Hospitalization” Survey Seeks Participants
“The purpose of this survey is to help us understand people's lived experience with voluntary and involuntary treatment because of suicidal thoughts. It was created by people with lived experience…We are planning to use this information to facilitate discussions with suicidologists and the suicide prevention community about the impact of the use of these interventions, particularly within marginalized populations. We feel the voice of people with lived experience with these interventions has not had adequate opportunity to be heard, and hope that by completing this survey anonymously, people who have been most impacted can find a safe way to share their experiences. Please note that this is not a research project.” For more information and/or to participate, click here.
Thanks, Leah Harris
International Survey on Antipsychotic Medication Withdrawal Seeks Respondents
“Have you taken antipsychotic medication (such as Zyprexa, Seroquel, Abilify, Risperdal, Haldol, Geodon, Stelazine, and others), for any condition or diagnosis, with or without other medications? And did you ever stop taking antipsychotics, or try to stop taking them? Are you 18 years or older? If yes, you can take this survey about antipsychotic withdrawal and attempts to withdraw, including if you stopped taking them completely or if you tried to come off and still take them. The survey aims to improve mental health services by better understanding medication withdrawal. Lead researcher is Will Hall, a therapist and Ph.D. student who has himself taken antipsychotics. Service users/survivors/consumers from around the world also gave input. The study is sponsored by Maastricht University in the Netherlands; co-sponsors include the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal. Questions? Please contact will.hall@maastrichtuniversity.nl.” For more information or to take the survey, click on www.antipsychoticwithdrawalsurvey.com
Virtual Group Is Launched to Advance Peer Research Capacity, Leadership, and Involvement
Nev Jones, Ph.D., and Emily Cutler, a doctoral candidate, have launched a new listserv dedicated to building research capacity, leadership, and involvement among peers, survivors, and service users. Dr. Jones, assistant professor, Department of Mental Health Law & Policy, University of South Florida, was part of the team that developed “User/Survivor Leadership & Capacity Building in Research: White Paper on Promoting Engagement Practices in Peer Evaluation/Research (PEPPER),” published by the Lived Experience Research Network. For the white paper, click here. Anyone interested in joining the virtual group can email Nev at nev.inbox@gmail.com.
Do You Supervise Peer Support Workers? Then Researchers Have Some Questions for You
Researchers in the University of South Florida’s Department of Psychiatry and at Magellan Health are investigating the backgrounds, training, and experiences of individuals who currently supervise at least one peer support worker in a behavioral health setting or agency. “To the best of our knowledge, this will be the first comprehensive research study of the landscape of peer support supervision practices in the United States,” writes Dr. Nev Jones, the primary investigator of the study (Protocol Number 00040223). Participants must be at least 18 years old and work in the United States or U.S. territories. An online survey lasting approximately 10 minutes will ask about respondents’ backgrounds, training and preparation for supervision, perspectives and practices, and views on barriers and facilitators to high-quality supervision. There is no monetary compensation. Questions? Contact Dr. Nev Jones (genevra@health.usf.edu) or the co-primary investigator, Dana Foglesong (dfoglesong@magellanhealth.com). To access the survey, click here.
What Happens to People after Discharge from First Episode Psychosis/Early Intervention Programs? New Study Seeks Answers—and Participants
A study led by Dr. Nev Jones at the University of South Florida seeks current and former clients as well as family members of clients previously enrolled in early intervention in psychosis (EIP)/coordinated specialty care (CSC) services. The study aims to better understand what happens after discharge from EIP/CSC programs, including in the areas of school or work and access to/use of other mental health services. Eligible participants must be at least 18 years old and must be “current clients within one month of discharge from an EIP/CSC program, former clients discharged at least six months (at the time of the scheduled interview), and the family members of former clients.” In exchange for a phone interview of approximately 1.5 hours, each participant in the study (Protocol Number 00035193) will receive a $75 money order. Questions? Contact Dr. Jones at 813.415.5532 or by email at genevra@health.usf.edu.
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The National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse is now affiliated with the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion!
The Key Update is the free monthly e-newsletter of the National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse. Volume 16, No. 7, January 2020. For content, reproduction or publication information, please contact Susan Rogers at selfhelpclearinghouse@gmail.com. Follow Susan on Twitter at @SusanRogersMH