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Event Event Archive | Shared Resources (General)   Topic: Self-Determination: What does this mean? How do I balance my life's dreams with realistic and achievable goals? (In English) Date:    Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Time:    5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time Speaker: Jessica Jonikas, M.A., National Research and Training Center (NRTC), Managing Director Jessica Jonikas is the Managing Director of the University of Illinois at Chicago, National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability, and holds a Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Chicago. For over two decades, she has presented the Center’s work to clinicians, researchers, and policy makers at national conferences and trainings. In addition, she has co-authored journal articles, book chapters, and training guides on community-based models of care. An expert on person-centered planning and shared decision-making, she was chosen by the federal Center for Mental Health Services to prepare a national briefing and sit on committees regarding those topics. She has also organized 3 highly successful and pioneering national conferences on self-determination and self-directed care in mental health. She is Co-Investigator on a project to implement and evaluate self-directed care for people receiving public mental health services in Texas. Audio Outline 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: Express Yourself! Assessing Self-Determination in your Life This is Your Life! Creating Your Self-Directed Life Plan Raising Difficult Issues With Your Service Provider Seeking Supported Employment: What You Need to Know Research on Self-Directed Care Fact Sheet       If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.		Find resources by community: General African American Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders Native Americans Alaskan Natives Latino Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning & Intersex Coming soon: Youth and Students Veterans Older Americans Links to resources in languages other than English. What is Cultural Competence? Sign up to receive the STAR Center's quarterly newsletter, Recovering Together, via email. Or read the newsletter online in the Recovering Together archive. Visit our event archive for audio files, transcripts, and reports on previous STAR Center events.
With grateful acknowledgment to the federal Center for Mental Health Services (CHMS). CMHS was established under the 1992 ADAMHA Reorganization Act, Public Law 102-321, which mandates CMHS' leadership role in delivering mental health services, generating and applying new knowledge, and establishing national mental health policy. CMHS is a component of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (opens in new window), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (opens in new window).
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Topic: Self-Determination: What does this mean? How do I balance my life's dreams with realistic and achievable goals? (In English)

Date:    Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Time:    5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time

Speaker:
Jessica Jonikas, M.A., National Research and Training Center (NRTC), Managing Director

Jessica Jonikas is the Managing Director of the University of Illinois at Chicago, National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability, and holds a Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Chicago. For over two decades, she has presented the Center’s work to clinicians, researchers, and policy makers at national conferences and trainings. In addition, she has co-authored journal articles, book chapters, and training guides on community-based models of care. An expert on person-centered planning and shared decision-making, she was chosen by the federal Center for Mental Health Services to prepare a national briefing and sit on committees regarding those topics. She has also organized 3 highly successful and pioneering national conferences on self-determination and self-directed care in mental health. She is Co-Investigator on a project to implement and evaluate self-directed care for people receiving public mental health services in Texas.

Audio

Outline

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:

• Express Yourself! Assessing Self-Determination in your Life
• This is Your Life! Creating Your Self-Directed Life Plan
• Raising Difficult Issues With Your Service Provider
• Seeking Supported Employment: What You Need to Know
• Research on Self-Directed Care Fact Sheet

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Find resources by community:

General

African American

Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders

Native Americans Alaskan Natives

Latino

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning & Intersex

Coming soon:

Youth and Students

Veterans

Older Americans

Links to resources in languages other than English.

What is Cultural Competence?

Sign up to receive the STAR Center's quarterly newsletter, Recovering Together, via email. Or read the newsletter online in the Recovering Together archive.

Visit our event archive for audio files, transcripts, and reports on previous STAR Center events.

With grateful acknowledgment to the federal Center for Mental Health Services (CHMS).
CMHS was established under the 1992 ADAMHA Reorganization Act, Public Law 102-321, which mandates CMHS' leadership role in delivering mental health services, generating and applying new knowledge, and establishing national mental health policy. CMHS is a component of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (opens in new window), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (opens in new window).

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