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Practical Strategies for Building Active Community Lives
Community Integration StrategiesFor Continuous Quality Improvement Forum
Montgomery County, PennsylvaniaTuesday, April 27, 2010
Richard C. Baron, MACo-Director, Knowledge Translation Activities
Jonathan C. David, Ph.D.UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration
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UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration for People with Psychiatric
Disabilities
University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA
www.upennrrtc.org215.746.6713
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Practical StrategiesAgenda
Community Integration Fundamentals• Definitions• Justifications• Principles• Domains
An Action Plan• Assess Priorities• Explore Resources• Identify Barriers• Offer Support• Update Plan
Examples
Questions & Answers
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Community Integration: Definition
The opportunity to live in the community, and be valued for one’s uniqueness and abilities, like everyone else (Salzer, 2006)
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Community Integration: Alternative Definitions
“It’s what recovery is for.”
“It means weaving into the whole even that parts that are uncomfortable and don’t seem to fit, even the parts that are complicated and painful.” (Lisa Koon)
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Community Integration: Why?• Housing – segregated into impoverished
communities
• Employment – 85% unemployment rate
• Social Networks – 50% of non-disabled contacts
• Parenting – 2.8 times more likely to lose custody
• Civic Life – 37 states restrict the right to vote
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Community Integration: Why Not?
Would participate
Should participate
Could participate
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Community Integration Principles I: Recognizing Rights, Roles, and
Responsibilities
Community Integration…
1. …is a right.
2. …offers opportunities in varied roles.
3. …promotes a sense of responsibility.
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Community Integration Principles II: Promoting Opportunities
Community Integration offers opportunities…4. …to move from institutional services to
community care.
5. …to move from staff-directed activities to self-directed activities.
6. …to move from the psychiatric milieu to engagement in the community.
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Community Integration Principles III: Implementing Effective Strategies
Community Integration…7. …is founded on consumer choice
8. …utilizes natural supports and community resources
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Community Integration Principles III: Implementing Effective Strategies
Community Integration…9. …identifies environmental barriers
• Discrimination• Disempowerment• Poverty• Transportation• Staff attitudes
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Community Integration Principles III: Implementing Effective Strategies
Community Integration…10. …offers individual supports
• Encouraging new goals• Accessing community resources• Skills training• Personal assistance• Financial assistance
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Domains of Community Integration
• Housing • Employment• Friendships• Family• Peer Support• Religion/Spirituality
• Leisure & Recreation• Civic Life• Intimate Relationships• Health & Wellness• Education• Finances
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Three Evidence-Based Strategies to Avoid Change
We already do this
We have no resources to do this
This will never work
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Practical Strategies
Assess Needs & Priorities
Explore Community Resources
Identify Environmental Barriers
Offer Individualized Supports
Update the Plan
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Practical Strategies: Assess Needs & Priorities
• Counselor/client assessment of current levels of community integration
• Expression of interest in progress in varied domains
• Setting priorities: feasibility, importance, opportunity
• Overcoming counselor/client anxiety
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Practical Strategies: Explore Community Resources
• What already exists for non-disabled citizens
• What entry requirements are there
• What demands does participation make
• Sharing information gathering responsibility
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Practical Strategies: Identify Environmental Barriers
• Consumer/staff/community attitudes
• Regulations and legislation
• Financial resources
• Community discrimination
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Practical Strategies: Offer Individualized Supports
• Staff training
• Accompaniment
• Community mentors
• Financial assistance
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Practical Strategies: Update the Plan
An initial plan who, what, where, when, how
A plan to review
A plan to revise
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For More Information
University of Pennsylvania Collaborative on Community Integration
www.upennrrtc.org
Regional Mental Health Services Coordination Office
www.fivecountymh.org