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The Ohio Coordinating Center for Excellence in Dual Diagnosis (MI/MRDD CCOE) is a virtual center organized around a collaborative partnership of expertise which includes the Wright State University Department of Psychiatry, The Ohio State University Nisonger Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Division of Developmental Disabilities, and Case Western Reserve University along with the Cuyahoga County Board of MRDD.
Other Resources
The
Importance of Person Centered Thinking (95KB PDF)
- Michael Smull
Good to Great Presentation
on Person-Centered System Change (481KB PDF)
- Michael Smull
Myths and Realities Co-Occurring
Disorders - Mental Illness/Intellectual Disability (551KB PDF)
- Robert Fletcher, Executive Director, NADD
How
Well Does Your State Serve Individuals with Co-occurring Mental Illness
and Intellectual Disabilities? (84KB PDF)
- Joan B. Beasley, Ph.D.
Children's Services in the Real World (91KB PDF)
- Diane Jacobstein, Ph.D. and Terry McNelis, MPA
Recognizing
Psychosis in Nonverbal Patients With Developmental Disabilities
192KB PDF)
- Ruth Ryan, M.D., Psychiatric Times, December 2001, Vol. XVIII,
Issue 12
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Positive Practices
Symptoms
and Behavioral Manifestations Associated With Trauma (62 KB PDF)
- Lyle S. Cope, Kathy Markovich, and John T. Phillips
Bridging
the Gap - The Philadelphia Behavioral Health Collaborative: Moving from
Programming to Supports (37KB PDF)
- Amy Nemirow, Ph.D.
Learning
From a Person's Biography: An Introduction to the Biographical Timeline
Process (137KB PDF)
- Beth I. Barol, Ph.D.
Reports and Reviews
This report documents the first step in a collaborative dialogue between state mental health and developmental disabilities agencies and multiple stakeholders in the states to assess the successes and failures of current practice in serving people with co-occurring conditions in an effort to develop a productive partnership for systems change. The report identifies barriers to services in existing service systems, describes components of an "ideal" system of care, and makes recommendations for systems change.
A Systematic
Evaluation and Implementation Strategy to Promote Effective Community Service
Systems for Individuals with Coexisting Developmental Disabilities and Mental
Illness: National Service Trends and the "Connecticut Blueprint"
(234KB PDF)
- Joan B. Beasley and Kathryn duPree
This article describes one method to evaluate community- based services that can be used by state and local governments to assess their service delivery system. The process used in the state of Connecticut and the new initiatives now taking place there will also be described as an example of an attempt to overcome obstacles and seek positive, long-term remedies to meet the challenge of providing effective services for people with mental retardation and behavioral health needs.
Evaluation
of Outcomes and Cost Effectiveness of a Community Behavioral Support and
Crisis Response Demonstration Project (824KB PDF) (June 1998)
- Roudolph, C., Lakin, K.C., Oslund, J.M., & Larson, W. Mental Retardation,
Vol. 36, No. 3, 187-197.
An evaluation of a behavioral support and crisis response demonstration project in Minnesota.
Never Give
Up Assets Inc.'s Commitment to Community Life for People Seen as "Difficult
to Serve" (334KB PDF)
- John O'Brien with Kathryn Carssow, Matthew Jones, Maxwell Mercer, Laronsia
Reynolds, and Diana Strzok from Assets, Inc.
An evaluation of programs offered by Assets, Inc. in Anchorage Alaska to support individuals with co-existing conditions.
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