mhmrda: Mental Health Consumers as Providers

Montgomery County, PA

P.O. Box 311, Norristown, PA 19404-0311
Courthouse Hours: 8:30a.m. to 4:15p.m.
Phone: 610-278-3000
Website: www.montcopa.org

Consumers as Providers


Campbell, J. and Leaver, J., Emerging New Practices in Organized Peer Support, 2003.  Available through www.nasmhpd.org (The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors).


Jonikas, J. et al., An Inclusion Framework: Preparing Psychosocial Rehabilitation Programs and Staff for the Consumer-Hiring Initiative.  In Mowbray, C. et al, (Editors), Consumers are Providers in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Available through www.iapsrs.org


National Empowerment Center, Crisis Hostel: Alternative to Psychiatric Hospitalization, 2003.  Available through www.power2u.org


Shore, S. et al., Managing Workplace Conflict: A Skills Training Workbook for Mental Health Consumers and Supervisors, 2002. Available through www.psych.uic.edu. (UIC National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability)


Solomon, M et al., Positive Partnerships: How Consumers and Nonconsumers Can Work Together as Service Providers (2nd Ed.). Available through www.psych.uic.edu