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Jump-Starting Community Inclusion
A Toolkit for Promoting Participation in Community Life
Overview
This toolkit contains sixty-six practical first steps that community mental health providers can take to more effectively support their service recipients’ participation in everyday community life.
This compendium of simple strategies – drawn from fifteen years of research and training activities at the NIDILRR-funded Temple University RRTC on Community Living and Participation – focuses on policy changes, programming shifts, and practice innovations that can quickly give new life and relevance to your agency’s operations. The Toolkit offers a set of do-able strategies, along with links to over 100 publications and products to support your work.
Information Topics:
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- Overview
- What is Community Inclusion?
- The role of County Mental Health Administration
- Organization and Development of the Toolkit
- Why Create a Toolkit for Promoting Community Inclusion?
- Community Inclusion Action Items for County Mental Health Administrators
- Promoting Community Inclusion
- Planning Community Inclusion
- Implementing Community Inclusion
- Learning Community Inclusion
- Evaluating Community Inclusion
- Overcoming Barriers Community Inclusion
- Appendices and Endnotes
- Overview
This resource created by Temple Collaborative on Community Inclusion