Advisory Board Meeting: Third Quarter, 2006

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Advisory Board MeetingThird Quarter, 2006

• Dr. David V. Perkins and Josh Raines
• Ball State University

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The Agenda

• Outcome analyses
• Number of consumers enrolled/served
• Number of consumers employed, and employment
  cluster summary
• Number of consumers closed
• VR vs. MRO
• Does work de-stigmatize mental illness?
• GIS (spatial) View of Marion County Consumers,
  Jobs, and Crime Rates

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Number of consumers enrolled/served
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Employment trends

• Consumer employment cluster indicates that things
  are progressing as expected, where

The greatest number of consumers are employed in
the food service cluster, followed by retail
work, and then professional/technical employment.
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Closure rates by funding source
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Positive effects of work de-stigmatizing the
individual

• Stigma and social rejection affect people with
  mental illness, people with criminal histories,
  and certainly people who have both mental illness
  and a prior criminal offense history

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4 different vignettes were created, all included
this description

• Joe is a 25 year old man living in the town of
  Watsonville. Everything was going fine for Joe
  until about two years ago. Joe started becoming
  suspicious that people were talking about him
  when he was not around. As time passed, Joe
  became progressively convinced that people were
  constantly lying to him and plotting against him.
  Because of these beliefs, Joe began to lose
  motivation for activities that he had once
  enjoyed. Joe became increasingly obsessed with
  these thoughts to the point of losing sleep at
  night. During the night, Joe began to hear
  voices that told him to do things to the people
  who were plotting against him. After several
  months, with the help of an old friend, Joe
  reluctantly made his way to the local mental
  health center in Watsonville.

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Participants went on to read that

• During the mental health evaluation, the
  psychologists learned that Joe was convicted of a
  minor alcohol offense five years earlier. When
  asked about it, Joe reported that he was arrested
  for alcohol possession while at a house party.
  Additionally, Joe reported he paid a small fine,
  completed community service and was placed on
  probation for six months.
• OR
• During the mental health evaluation, the
  psychologists learned that Joe was convicted of
  arson five years earlier. When asked about it,
  Joe reported that he was arrested for setting his
  ex-girlfriends apartment building on fire after
  a long argument. Additionally, Joe reported he
  spent three years in the state penitentiary and
  was released on parole.

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Each half of the sample also read that

• Upon finishing the meeting with the
  psychologists, Joe was diagnosed with
  schizophrenia. Since his diagnosis, Joe has
  attended weekly group sessions at the local
  mental health center. Joe successfully
  transitioned from a group home to an apartment
  that he shares with a fellow coworker. Joe has
  also obtained a job at the local warehouse where
  he works on a crew unloading trucks 20 hours per
  week. Recently, Joe received a promotion and
  plans on saving for his own apartment with the
  extra money.
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  OR
• Upon finishing the meeting with the
  psychologists, Joe was diagnosed with
  schizophrenia. Since his diagnosis, Joe has
  attended weekly group sessions at the local
  mental health center. Currently, Joe is
  unemployed and often times goes to the
  Watsonville Community Library and checks out
  video tapes to watch at his home with a friend
  from the Watsonville mental health center. Joe
  frequently takes long walks around his
  neighborhood by himself.

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Participants completed a "social distance" scale,
indicating if they would be definitely willing,
probably willing, probably unwilling, or
definitely unwilling...

• To move next door to Joe?
• To spend an evening socializing with Joe?
• To make friends with Joe?
• To have Joe start working closely with you on a
  job?
• To have Joe marry into your family?

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• Working de-stigmatizes persons with schizophrenia
  who also have criminal histories, including a
  violent felony

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Geospatial data and consumer recovery

• The use of geospatial data and the tables and
  maps generated by using GIS software and tools is
  a possible opportunity to enlarge what we learn
  from this evaluation effort.
• One advantage to examining GIS outcomes is that
  they promote a focus on how the individual with a
  disability is similar to non-disabled people,
  rather than measuring how the person with a
  disability is different.
• Spatial analysis of residences, job sites, and
  community resources may identify barriers to the
  maintenance of stable, long-term employment

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Center Township, Marion County
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Consumer Residences
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Consumer Residences and Crimes per 1000 Residents
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Job Locations
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Job Locations and Crime Rates
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Residence, Job, and Crime Rate