PAPRS: Practitioner Resources

Resources for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioners

Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Updates

Alert:  The newly revised Telehealth Bulletin has been issued.  OMHSAS-21-09. Guidelines for the Delivery of Behavioral Health Services Through Telehealth -  Issued August 26, 2021; effective Sept 30,2021.  Please follow this link to see the bulletin.

Bulletin OMHSAS-21-09 Guidelines for the Delivery of Behavioral Health Services through Telehealth

From the Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

          PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION REGULATIONS

• PA Code 5230
• Chapter 5230: Question and Answer Document

          Forms

• PRS Program Information
• PRS Service Description Checklist
• PRS On-Site Survey Report Checklist
• PRS Statement of Rights – Form MH 819

From the Pennsylvania Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services

• Sample Forms from Documentation Course
  • Strengths Based Assessment​​
  • Strengths Based Assessment (2)
  • ​Individual Rehabilitation Plan
  • Daily Entry
  • Daily Entry (2)
  • ​Individual Rehabilitation Plan Update

From the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, PRA (formally USPRA)

• PRA Language Guidelines
• Principles of Multicultural Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services
• Practitioner Code of Ethics
• CPRP Certification Information
• Core Principles and Values

ADVOCACY

• National Alliance for Mental Illness of PA (NAMI PA) www.nami-pa.org
• Mental Health America- www.mentalhealthamerica.net
• PA Mental Health Consumers Association- www.pmhca.org
• PA Disability Rights Network- www.drnpa.org
• Mental Health Advocacy Coalition- www.mentalhealthadvocacy.org
• National Mental Health Self Help Clearinghouse/MHA- Southeastern PA-www.mhselfhelp.org
• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill- www.nami.org

ANTI-STIGMA

• Bring Change 2 Mind- www.bringchange2mind.org

CLUBHOUSE

• Pennsylvania Clubhouse Coalition- www.paclubhouse.org
• Fountain House- www.fountainhouse.org
• Clubhouse International- www.clubhouse-intl.org

COMMUNITY INTEGRATION

• Temple University Collaborative on Community Integration- www.tucollaborative.org

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

• Community Care Recovery Learning- www.recoverylearning.com
• Resiliency and Recovery E-Learning Center- www.magellanhealth.com/training

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES

• Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration –EBP KITS- http://store.samhsa.gov/list/series?name=Evidence-Based-Practices-KITs

​FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS

• HeadsUp - https://www.headsup-pa.org/

GENERAL INFORMATION (BEHAVIORAL HEALTH)

• The National Council for Community Behavioral Health Care- www.thenationalcouncil.org
• University of IL-Chicago Center on MH Service Research and Policy- Judith Cook, Ph.D, Dir. http://www.psych.uic.edu/mhsrp
• National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors- www.nasmhpd.org
• The Village (Dr. Mark Ragins)- www.mhavillage.org
• Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law- www.bazelon.org
• The Coalition for Community Living (Fairweather Lodges)- www.theccl.org

HEARING VOICES

• Intervoice- www.intervoiceonline.org
• Working to Recovery- www.workingtorecovery.co.uk
• Hearing Voices Network USA- www.hearingvoicesusa.org

PEER SUPPORT

• International Association of Peer Supports- http://www.naops.org
• PA Peer Support Coalition- www.papeersupportcoalition.org

PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION

• Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation- www.bu.edu/cpr
• Pennsylvania Chapter of the U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association-www.paprs.org
• Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association & Certification Commission (CPRP)  www.psychrehabassociation.org

RECOVERY

• Recovery to Practice Resource Center- http://dsgdev2.dsgonline.com/rtp
• National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery- http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/ken/pdf/SMA05-4129/trifold.pdf
• University of Illinois Chicago Mental Health Services Research Program (MHSRP)-www.psych.uic.edu/mhsrp
• Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America SAMHSA- www.samhsa.gov
• Faces and Voices of Recovery- www.facesandvoicesofrecovery
• Pennsylvania Recovery and Resiliency- www.parecovery.org
• National Empowerment Center- www.power2u.org
• Recovery to Practice Resource Center- http://dsgdev2.dsgonline.com/rtp
• Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)- www.copelandcenter.com
• Mental Health Recovery and WRAP- Mary Ellen Copeland- www.mentalhealthrecovery.com
• Start Your Recovery - www.startyourrecovery.org

SUPPORT GROUPS AND INFORMATION

• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance- www.dbsalliance.org

TRAUMA

• National Center for Trauma Informed Care- www.samhsa.gov/nctic
• Sanctuary Institute- www.thesanctuaryinstitute.org

WORK/VOCATIONAL

• Works for Me- www.worksforme-pa.org

OTHERS

• Tobacco and Mental Health- QuitDay https://quitday.org/support/mental-health/  or visit https://quiday.org
• American Lung Association-http://lung.org/  
• ​DrugRehab- www.DrugRehab.com