Research & Special Projects
Community Mental Health
Community Mental Health Field
Instruction Unit
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Project Directors: Gail
Werrbach, Ph.D. & Nancy Kelly, MSW
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Funded by: Maine Department
of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services
($25,000)
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Project Timeframe: The
project began in 1988 and is funded annually.
The overall purpose of this project is
improve the delivery of community-based mental health services to
children and adults with serious mental illness and their families by:
a) increasing the number of professionally educated BASW and MSW
students successfully completing community mental health field
internships and seeking employment in community mental health. Each
year, two BSW and four MSW students receive stipends and complete
internships in community mental health. This project also provides
funding for the School of Social Work collaboration with the Alliance
for the Mentally Ill, the Student Health Center, and other UM
departments in sponsoring Mental Illness Awareness Week at the
University of Maine.
Maine Housing Alternative Project
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Project Evaluation Coordinators:
Gail Werrbach, Ph.D. & Winston Turner, Ph.D.
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Funded by: US Department of
Health and Human Services, Center for Mental Health Services
Administration & the Maine Department of Mental Health, Mental
Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services ($400,000)
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Project Timeframe: September
1, 1998 to August 31, 2001
The Maine DMHMRSAS was one of ten sites
nationwide to receive funding from CMHS for the Housing Initiatives I
Grant (9-1-97 to 8-31-98). The Phase I study examined Supported Housing
and other community-based housing programs and support services through
a process evaluation. CMHS worked with a coordinating center and a
steering committee representing all ten sites to develop fidelity
measures to define Supported Housing. All ten sites used this process to
examine Supported Housing at their site. In its Phase I study, the Maine
site found high fidelity for all of the required measures in Supported
Housing. The Phase II study examines the effectiveness of Supported
Housing.
