COMMUNITY INTEGRATION
HOW POSITIVE RESET SERVICES CAN PROMOTE MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY INTEGRATION?
- Identify barriers to community integration and target obstacles that prevent people from being full members of their communities
- Provide supports which bring about meaningful changes in the lives of people with psychiatric disabilities (i.e. – Supported Education, Supported Employment, Self-Help Groups, Parenting Classes, etc.)
- Expand the range of opportunities for people who have mental illnesses to participate in their communities as active, equal members
OUR RESEARCH ON HUMAN INTEGRATION
Community integration is integral to recovery for individuals with severe mental illness. We explored the integration of individuals with severe mental illness into mental health and non–mental health communities and associations with mental health service intensity.
EXPERIENCE OF OUR PARTNERS
We are working with our partners to survey mental health clinics to better understand their experience of integrating behavioral health care lines with physical care. In our practice, we use survey results and highlight three trends emerging in the mental health industry.
THREE OBSERVABLE TRENDS EMERGING ACROSS THE INDUSTRY:
1. EHR optimization is needed for successful integration
2. Patient experience and care coordination drive improvements
3. Full integration is deemed desirable and attainable
COMMUNITY INTEGRATION IS THE KEY TO RECOVERY?
Mental health treatments have become patient-clinic. Evaluating recovery in people with mental health difficulties living in the community can help to develop better patient-clinic services. Community integration is critical to recovery in patients with mental health difficulties.
COMMUNITY INTEGRATION IS THE KEY TO RECOVERY.
Participating in mental health clinic programs promoted mental health recovery in people with mental health difficulties living in the community. Independence/self-actualization, psychological integration and social support improved mental health recovery in people with mental health difficulties living in the community.
COMMUNITY INTEGRATION IS THE KEY TO RECOVERY!
There is a need to develop and actively promote programs that attract people with mental health difficulties living in the community so that they will actively use mental health clinic services. Offering systematic social skills training and occupational rehabilitation therapy to people with mental health difficulties living in the community may help them function independently.
