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.
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.
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.
This document includes information about resources people can use on digital devices in order to support increased community participation.
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.
This document provides first-person accounts from people with lived experience of mental illness regarding what characteristics turn a community space into a meaningful place, and steps we can take to make all places in our communities more welcoming.
This guide, informed by a survey that gathered information from more than 300 self-identified faculty with mental-health histories, focuses on ways to make college and university campuses more accessible for faculty with mental disabilities.
This product amplifies the voices of people in the Latino/a/x community by sharing their experiences around mental health. It shares programs around the country that are designed to enhance independent living and participation of people in the Latino/a/x community.
Community parks and recreation facilities are valuable for promoting health and wellness. This training provides advice for connecting with individuals with mental health conditions and service providers, as well as creating welcoming environments for those experiencing mental illness.
Community parks and recreation facilities are valuable for promoting health and wellness. This training provides advice for connecting with individuals with mental health conditions and service providers, as well as creating welcoming environments for those experiencing mental illness.
This manual, intended for both consumers and providers, is designed to encourage the sharing of real stories of community participation and includes suggestions for organizing storytelling events and activities to help people develop stories based on their experiences.