Paxton house: integrating mental health and diabetes care for people with serious mental illnesses in a residential setting.

Objective: This report provides a program description of a supported housing residence for individuals with co-occurring diabetes and serious mental illnesses and preliminary health outcome data.

Methods: Weight, blood glucose levels and satisfaction survey data were collected retrospectively on 13 individuals referred to the program.

Results: Results indicate that individuals lost weight and fasting glucose readings fell into the ADA recommended range in the first six months of participation.

Trial of an electronic decision support system to facilitate shared decision making in community mental health.

Objectives: Involvement of community mental health consumers in mental health decision making has been consistently associated with improvements in health outcomes. Electronic decision support systems (EDSSs) that support both consumer and provider decision making may be a sustainable way to improve dyadic communication in a field with approximately 50% workforce turnover per year. This study examined the feasibility of such a system and investigated proximal outcomes of the system's performance.

Criminal justice involvement of individuals with severe mental illness and supported employment outcomes.

This study examined the impact of criminal justice involvement on competitive employment outcomes for clients with severe mental illness enrolled in supported employment. Based on chart reviews of 154 clients enrolled in supported employment, the CJI and no CJI groups differed on several clinical and demographic variables, but did not differ on competitive employment outcomes. This study suggests that clients with criminal justice involvement do benefit from supported employment.

Access to supported employment for consumers with criminal justice involvement.

Objective: This paper aims to provide further understanding of the influence of severe mental illness (SMI) and criminal justice involvement (CJI) on access to Supported Employment (SE) services. The authors investigate differences between consumers with and without CJI regarding access to SE and explore reasons for group differences.

Method: This study employs a mixed-methods design.