Reports

National Wellness Action Plan Report Now Available: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announces the availability of its 10 x 10 Wellness Campaign's report, The 10 By 10 Campaign: A National Wellness Action Plan to Improve Life Expectancy by 10 Years in 10 Years for People with Mental Illness. This ground-breaking report from the 2007 National Wellness Summit for People with Mental Illness describes the "shockingly unacceptable" increased mortality and epidemic of health disparities for people with behavioral health problems and recommends essential steps to meet the Campaign's goal to improve their life expectancy by 10 years in 10 years. The National Wellness Action Plan details key elements and barriers to wellness and highlights innovative programs that successfully promoted wellness and reduced early mortality in a variety of populations. You may order the report for free at http://store.samhsa.gov/product/SMA10-4476.

Prevention Researcher releases Social Media & Youth digital issue: This Prevention Researcher Social Media & Youth issue examines how youth access health information, including suicide prevention, using social networking venues as well as ways to engage youth through social networking. This is the first digital issue Prevention Researcher has published. The issue was released in print as the 2010 Resource Issue. For more information, visit http://blog.tpronline.org/?p=1054 .

New Publication! Serving People with Psychiatric Disabilities in Centers for Independent Living: A Fact Sheet

The national network of Centers for Independent Living increasingly serves individuals with mental health challenges or a combination of mental health and physical/sensory disabilities. This new 20-page publication from the Temple University Collaborative provides CIL staff with clear and current information to help them better respond to the needs of people in recovery from mental illnesses.

Developed in conjunction with CIL staff and mental health consumers from around the country, the fact sheet provides brief responses to twelve frequently asked questions (e.g., what is mental illness? where can people with psychiatric disabilities turn for clinical care and rehabilitation services? what impact is the mental health consumer movement having on MH system services? how can CIL staff respond to the needs of mental health consumers?) as well as online linkages to websites with more detailed information and instruction for each topic. The publication is designed both for individual CIL staff and use in CIL staff training programs focusing on this growing portion of the CIL consumer base.

Serving People with Psychiatric Disabilities in Centers for Independent Living: A Fact Sheet can be downloaded at no cost form the Temple University Collaborative's new website at:

http://tucollaborative.org/pdfs/Toolkits_Monographs_Guidebooks/community_inclusion/CIL_Fact_Sheet.pdf and is available in a variety of accessible formats by contacting us at rcbaron@temple.edu.