2. COMMUNITY INTEGRATION PAPERS & REPORTS

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New! If I Have a Psychiatric Disability, Will Health Reform Help Me? Congress has been debating legislation that could make major changes in health insurance and the health care system. Many parts of this law would improve access to mental health services.

Download Will Health Reform Help People with Mental Illnesses? Will Health Reform Help People with Mental Illnesses? created by Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and the UPenn Collaborative to learn more about the bills passed in Congress in 2009 and how their enactment could affect adults with psychiatric disabilities.

This paper examines the health reform bills and their impact on opportunities for community integration for people with psychiatric disabilities. Click here to view

Now Available! How Health Care Reform will Affect Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities. Download this document created by Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and the UPenn Collaborative to learn more about the bills passed in Congress in 2009 and how their enactment could affect adults with psychiatric disabilities.

The bills addressed include: The House bill, Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R.
3962) and The Senate bill, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (S.
3590).

Also see the fact sheet, If I Have a Psychiatric Disability, Will Health Reform Help Me? for a description of some changes the law could make in care and treatment for people with psychiatric disabilities. Click here to view

NEW REPORT! Five Years of Innovative Research on Community Participation: 2003-2008 In October 2003, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) awarded a five-year Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) to create the University of Pennsylvania Collaborative on Community Integration of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities, providing support for a broad range of innovative research activities and targeted training projects to assist in the development and the delivery of community integration services and supports for individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

This report provides an overview of each of the nine research projects completed by the UPenn Collaborative in its first five years of activity. The research undertaken in the 2003 – 2008 period has made major contributions to the field’s understanding of community participation, and paved the way for further study as part of the UPenn Collaborative’s current NIDRR/RRTC research activities (2008 – 2013). Click here to view

NEW! Recommendations on Issues of Access to and Inclusion in Behavioral Health Services for GLBTQI Consumers The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) and its Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) have recently acted to address the disparities in the delivery of behavioral health services between the GLBTQI population and the larger population served by the Commonwealth’s service network. With facilitation and consultation provided through a contract to the UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration, the Deputy Secretary of OMHSAS invited representatives of the GLBTQI consumer communities and their advocates to form a workgroup that would make recommendations to DPW/OMHSAS on how to ensure that OMHSAS, county mental health programs, behavioral health managed care organizations, and mental health provider agencies reduce disparities in outcomes between GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness and the general population.

The Workgroup published this document calling on (OMHSAS) to pursue three goals :

1. Protect GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness from mistreatment;
2. Ensure that OMHSAS and contracted providers offer welcoming environments for GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness; and
3. Ensure clinically competent behavioral health care for GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness. Click here to view

New Resource! Learn About Special Needs Trusts A Special Needs Trusts is a specific type of trust that can be created by a parent of guardian to benefit a person with a disability. When drafted correctly, a special needs trust allows a person with a disability to benefit from funds placed in the trust while receiving public benefits. Download this document created by Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and the UPenn Collaborative to learn more about Special Needs Trusts and maintaining SSI and Medicaid benefits. Click here to view

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New! If I Have a Psychiatric Disability, Will Health Reform Help Me?	Congress has been debating legislation that could make major changes in health insurance and the health care system. Many parts of this law would improve access to mental health services. Download Will Health Reform Help People with Mental Illnesses? Will Health Reform Help People with Mental Illnesses? created by Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and the UPenn Collaborative to learn more about the bills passed in Congress in 2009 and how their enactment could affect adults with psychiatric disabilities. This paper examines the health reform bills and their impact on opportunities for community integration for people with psychiatric disabilities.	Click here to view
Now Available! How Health Care Reform will Affect Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities.	Download this document created by Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and the UPenn Collaborative to learn more about the bills passed in Congress in 2009 and how their enactment could affect adults with psychiatric disabilities. The bills addressed include: The House bill, Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) and The Senate bill, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (S. 3590). Also see the fact sheet, If I Have a Psychiatric Disability, Will Health Reform Help Me? for a description of some changes the law could make in care and treatment for people with psychiatric disabilities.	Click here to view
NEW REPORT! Five Years of Innovative Research on Community Participation: 2003-2008	In October 2003, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) awarded a five-year Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) to create the University of Pennsylvania Collaborative on Community Integration of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities, providing support for a broad range of innovative research activities and targeted training projects to assist in the development and the delivery of community integration services and supports for individuals with psychiatric disabilities. This report provides an overview of each of the nine research projects completed by the UPenn Collaborative in its first five years of activity. The research undertaken in the 2003 – 2008 period has made major contributions to the field’s understanding of community participation, and paved the way for further study as part of the UPenn Collaborative’s current NIDRR/RRTC research activities (2008 – 2013).	Click here to view
NEW! Recommendations on Issues of Access to and Inclusion in Behavioral Health Services for GLBTQI Consumers	The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) and its Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) have recently acted to address the disparities in the delivery of behavioral health services between the GLBTQI population and the larger population served by the Commonwealth’s service network. With facilitation and consultation provided through a contract to the UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration, the Deputy Secretary of OMHSAS invited representatives of the GLBTQI consumer communities and their advocates to form a workgroup that would make recommendations to DPW/OMHSAS on how to ensure that OMHSAS, county mental health programs, behavioral health managed care organizations, and mental health provider agencies reduce disparities in outcomes between GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness and the general population. The Workgroup published this document calling on (OMHSAS) to pursue three goals : 1. Protect GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness from mistreatment; 2. Ensure that OMHSAS and contracted providers offer welcoming environments for GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness; and 3. Ensure clinically competent behavioral health care for GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness.	Click here to view
New Resource! Learn About Special Needs Trusts	A Special Needs Trusts is a specific type of trust that can be created by a parent of guardian to benefit a person with a disability. When drafted correctly, a special needs trust allows a person with a disability to benefit from funds placed in the trust while receiving public benefits. Download this document created by Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and the UPenn Collaborative to learn more about Special Needs Trusts and maintaining SSI and Medicaid benefits.	Click here to view