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Welcoming Communities

These documents aim to explore and enhance environments, both physical and social, for individuals with mental illnesses. They offer insights from lived experiences, guidance for creating welcoming spaces in communities, and resources to promote supportive academic and recreational environments.

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Developing Community Participation Stories

This document is designed to support individuals to develop and share stories of community participation. It can be used by individuals to create their own story or used to support others to develop stories.  This document is designed to support individuals to develop and share stories of community participation. It can be used by individuals to create their own story or used to support others to develop stories.  

Creating Welcoming Environments for Worker with Disabilities: Managing Cognitive Demand

This comic is a collaboration between Center on Knowledge Translation for Employment Research (CeKTER) and the Temple University Collaborative (ACL grant #’s 90RTCP0001 & # 90RT5021). It is based on work by Gretchen Snethen, PhD, CTRS, and colleagues. The comic shows an example of how workers with disabilities can be supported at work.

What are Environments?

We sat down with Eugene Brusilovskiy to talk about a concept known as environments in research. In part 1, Eugene will introduce himself and then talk about what environments are. In part 2, Eugene discusses the built and social environment of individuals with psychiatric disabilities. The first study compared neighborhoods of adults with serious mental illnesses to those of the general population. The second study looked at access and availability of community resources.