UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration

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UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration

• Mark Salzer, Ph.D., Director
• UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration
  www.upennrrtc.org
• pennrrtc_at_mail.med.upenn.edu

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UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration
Mission

• Lead the field in the development of the core
  concepts and practical technologies of community
  integration
• Advance the centrality of community integration
  in the future development of policies and
  supports for people with serious psychiatric
  disabilities.

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Community Integration Is a Right Olmstead
Decision and ADA

• Supreme Court Olmstead decision (1999)
  unnecessary institutionalization is a form of
  discrimination prohibited by the ADA Title II
• Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
• Title II Requires governments to give people
  with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit
  from all programs, services, and activities
  (e.g., education, employment, voting,
  transportation, recreation, etc.)

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Community Integration Definition

• The opportunity to live in the community and be
  valued for abilities and unique qualities like
  everyone else

• Housing
• Employment
• Education
• Health Status
• Leisure/Recreation
• Spirituality

• Citizenship and civic engagement
• Valued Social Roles (e.g., marriage, parenting)
• PEER SUPPORT
• Self-Determination

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Community Integration Provides the Roadmap to the
Road to Recovery
Community Integration Outcomes
Community Presence and Participation
Community Integration (Opportunity and Valued)
Well-Being and Recovery