Monday, September 29, 2003

Measuring the Effectiveness of Community-Based Mental Health Programs (Canada)
The fall issue of Network Magazine, published by CMHA-Ontario. Articles include "The Role of Community-Based Mental Health Services," "Intensive Case Management" and "Consumer/Survivor Initiatives." The introductory editorial notes, "The Community Mental Health Evaluation Initiative (CMHEI) described in this issue of Network was designed to research a number of community mental health programs across the province to see if they produce positive outcomes for people. Given that we already believed that our services work, we are not surprised that preliminary research findings show that people do better on a variety of scientific measures when they receive community mental health services than when they do not. The surprise is how very much better they do..."