National Research and Training Center (NRTC)

SDC ON THE GROUND
Check out these websites and presentations on SDC programs now in operation

• Texas Self-Directed Care Program
• FloridaSDC
  • Florida SDC Jacksonville
  • Florida SDC Ft. Meyers
• Delaware County (Pennsylvania) SDC
• Cumbria (UK) Self-Directed Support in Mental Health
  • Participant Zone
  • Provider Zone

EVIDENCE BASE
Latest findings from evaluations of mental health SDC programs

• Participatory Action Research
• SDC Participant Outcomes
• SDC Implementation Barriers
• Texas Self-Directed Care RCT Participant Outcomes and Service Costs
• SDC Career Accounts

REPORTS AND POLICY SCANS
Using SDC to transform service delivery systems

• Mental Health America Position Statement 36: In Support of Self-Determination Initiatives
• HHS Review of Mental Health SDC
• Cash-Out Funding Sources for SDC
• MH Self-Directed Care: Learnings from the Cash & Counseling Demonstration
• Free to Choose: Transforming Behavioral Health Care to Self-Direction
  
• Feasibility of Expanding Self-Directed Services to People with Serious Mental Illness
  
• Self-Directed Mental health Service Delivery
  
• On Our Own of Maryland: Task Force on Self-Directed Mental Health Care Final Report
  

SDC PROGRAM CREATION TOOLS
Use these resources to plan and implement your own SDC program

• Coming Soon! Two New SDC Program Implementation Manuals from the UIC National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability and the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion
• Mental Health Self-Directed Care Program Fidelity Assessment
• SDC Research Fact Sheet
• Person-Centered Planning
• A Voice and a Choice

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: SDC PARTICIPANTS SPEAK OUT

• Chelsia’s Story
• Cleveland’s Story
• Genoveva’s Story
• Guiseppe's Story
• Self-Direction as a Route to Recovery
• Integrating Mental Health Personal Budgets
• National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services

GLOBAL SDC

• Self-Directed Support is a Scottish Innovation
• SDC: A National Strategy for Scotland
• International Developments in Self-Directed Care
• Individualized Funding in Canada
• Personal Budgets in the Netherlands
• Mental Health SDC in Cambridgeshire