About the Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy.

The Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy (MHSRP) engages in research, training, and technical assistance resulting in enhanced service delivery and increased knowledge about psychiatric disorders and mental health services.  The MHSRP fully involves people with psychiatric disabilities, their families and friends, advocates, service providers, and other stakeholders in its research program, whereby they help to design, implement, and evaluate projects, as well as disseminate findings. These individuals also serve as designers and educators in the MHSRP's training program. The Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy promotes concepts of recovery, self-determination, and full community participation for individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

The MHSRP's projects addressing psychiatric disabilities and rehabilitation focus on such areas as vocational, residential, and educational rehabilitation services; crisis management and prevention of hospitalization; the needs of women and people from diverse cultural backgrounds; and systems integration.  The MHSRP also emphasizes the needs and experiences of individuals living with HIV/AIDS, including those who also have a mental illness.  In addition, individual projects address treatment for homeless individuals with psychiatric disabilities, as well as the experiences of family members and friends of people living with these disabilities.

There are nine major areas in the UIC MHSRP Web site.  Seven of these are topical areas under which each of our research and training projects can be found.

1. UIC NRTC - Here, you will find information on our Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Psychiatric Disability and Self-Determination, as well as news from our previous RRTC on Peer Support and Self-Help.
2. EIDP - This section contains a detailed description of the Employment Intervention Demonstration Program, a multi-site study of vocational rehabilitation
3. HIV/AIDS - In this area of the UIC MHSRP Web site you will find information about projects that address the ongoing needs of people with psychiatric disabilities and service providers with regard to HIV/AIDS.
4. ACT - The Assertive Community Treatment Training Institute is described in this section of our Web site, along with its curricula and manuals.
5. Family - Here you will find information on studies that address how education and support programs help families and friends of persons with psychiatric disabilities.
6. Children/Youth - Visit this area to obtain information on initiatives at the UIC MHSRP that are designed to evaluate services provided to children and adolescents with severe emotional disorders.
7. Homelessness - The goals of the projects detailed in this section of our Web site are to examine the types of services homeless persons with psychiatric disabilities need to help them attain and maintain community living, and to understand how systems can work together to better serve this group of individuals.

The UIC MHSRP has an extensive list of publications, which is outlined in the eighth area of our Web site.  You will find a printable order form here, which can be faxed or mailed directly to the Dissemination Coordinator at the UIC MHSRP.   

And finally, the ninth area of this site provides contact information for each of the staff employed here at MHSRP.

Staff of the UIC MHSRP present at various international, national, and local conferences on psychiatric disabilities and mental health services.  Many of these presentations have handouts available by request.  Relevant presentations can be found in the Products sections of many of our individual project pages.  You can also visit a newly created Presentations page on which we'll be adding new information on presentations as it becomes available.

The UIC MHSRP is part of the ongoing Education and Research efforts of the
UIC Department of Psychiatry

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