SELF-DETERMINATION TOOLS
The Center provides a series of tools to advance self-determination and person-driven services for use by people with psychiatric disabilities.
The National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability (NRTC) promotes access to effective consumer-driven and community-based services for adults with serious mental illness. The Center is located at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Psychiatry.
To enhance use of evidence-based practice in mental health and rehabilitation, a program of rigorous research examines the outcomes of recovery self-management models, consumer-to-consumer education, self-directed healthcare financing mechanisms, Medicaid-funded peer services, consumer-operated programs, and return-to-work services.
The Center provides data-driven information, technical assistance, and training that foster evidence translation, systems transformation, and workforce development. Training and education include projects on consumer leadership development, client self-advocacy, peer provider certification, financial asset development, preparing for research careers, and inpatient seclusion and restraint reduction.
An innovative academic curricular transformation effort incorporates principles of recovery and evidence-based practice into university instruction in the medical, social, and behavioral sciences. Also offered are online workshops, web casts, web-based continuing education courses, and a state of the science national summit held in April 2009.
