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Indiana Hoosier Assurance Plan Packet
The Hoosier Assurance Plan is a legislative mandate to provide care for adults with serious mental illness, or a chronic addiction, or both; and, children and adolescents with a severe emotional disturbance. The key system features are managed competition among service providers, informed consumer choice supported by a Provider Profile Report Card, an advisory panel (with consumer involvement) to guide system development, and empirical evidence to support Level of Care Determination/Reimbursement. This packet contains … Read More
Author(s): Fredrick L. Newman, Richard Deliberty, Kay Hodges, John McGrew, & Manual J. Tejeda
Evaluating Peer Providers
This working paper discusses issues related to evaluation of mental health services provided by peers also referred to as consumers/survivors/ex-patients. The first section of the paper offers a desired research process, combining participatory approaches to evaluation with traditional evaluation methods. The second section presents a conceptual model of research content for guiding future research on the effectiveness of peer providers. In presenting this model, the authors also discuss the research to date on … Read More
Author(s): H. Stephen Leff, Ph.D., Jean Campbell, Ph.D., Cheryl Gagne, Lawrence Woocher
Evaluating Internet Mental Health Applications: A Roundtable Report
This report describes the Roundtable discussions on evaluating Internet applications available to mental health system stakeholders. The objectives of the Roundtable discussion included: 1) sharing information about what mental health resources there are on the Internet; 2) learning what types of evaluation research have been conducted in this area; 3) considering the possible methods for evaluating on-line resources; and 4) identifying people who might be interested in becoming partners in this area of research. Participants included researchers, recipients of … Read More
Author(s): The Evaluation Center @ HSRI
Community Support Skill Standards: Tools for Managing Change and Achieving Outcomes
The Community Support Skill Standards (CSSS) identify the master level practice standards for direct service workers in progressive, community-based human service work environments. Developed and validated by a national coalition of key stakeholders, the standards represent the core skill and knowledge set applicable to frontline workers in a wide variety of human service program settings regardless of the specific job title or population served. Standards and performance indicators represent the result of a comprehensive, national … Read More
Author(s): Marianne Taylor, Ralph Warren Jr., Valerie J Bradley