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Use these stories
for the following:

• Classroom discussions
• Team meetings
• New-staff orientation
• Continuing education
• Professional development
• Advocacy & community planning

October 20, 2008

THE POWER OF HEARING A GOOD STORY

—by Matthew K. Weiland and Paul M. Kubek

The Center for Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) at Case is collecting audio recordings of service providers, consumers, and others telling stories of their experiences with evidence-based practices like Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) and Supported Employment (SE), as well as other practices such as the Tobacco and Recovery (TR) model (see samples below).

- Inspire others to make the most of evidence-based practices and other services.
- Use this free audio in your organization and community.

SHARE YOUR STORY

We'll have our recording equipment set up at different events. We invite you to stop by and contribute to the project (look for the "Audio Project" banner, microphone, and guy with headphones).

- Take 10 minutes
- Answer 3 questions:

Think of someone you know—a consumer, a family member, a friend—who has received IDDT services: How has his or her life been positively changed by the IDDT/SE/TR approach?

How has IDDT/SE/TR changed the way you do your work?

What has been your biggest challenge with using IDDT/SE/TR: How have you met that challenge?

AUDIO SAMPLE 1: INTEGRATED DUAL DISORDER TREATMENT (IDDT)

Ohio SAMI CCOE Director of Consultation and Training Ric Kruszynski, MSSA, LISW, LICDC, tells a story that illustrates how 20 minutes of clinical supervision in the community with immediate feedback helped one team member refine her approach and find the tools she needed to help one woman’s journey toward health, wellness, stable housing, and recovery.

| listen & learn more |

AUDIO SAMPLE 2: SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT (SE)

Every Journey Has a Story (CD, free downloads):
- 15 original audio interviews
- A focus on consumers and direct-service providers
- Featuring Nicole Clevenger, Patrick Boyle, Mary Ann Hastings, Leslie Alloway, and Steve Shober
- Back-to-work success stories
- Take-home tips for SE teams

| listen & learn more |

AUDIO SAMPLE 3: TOBACCO AND RECOVERY (TR)

The Shawnee Mental Health Center not only serves three of the poorest, most rural regions in Ohio—Lawrence, Scioto, and Adams counties—with mental health and tobacco recovery services, but it also lies in the heart of tobacco country, making the notion of kicking the habit seem less doable than flicking a cigarette butt across the Ohio River.

Program Supervisor (and Inspector Gadget) Flash Phipps has some useful tips for helping consumers and service providers kick the tobacco habit.

| listen & learn more |

AUDIO SAMPLE 4: MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING (MI)

This audio CD provides an introduction to the spirit of Motivational Interviewing (MI), an evidence-based treatment designed for behavioral healthcare professionals to help people resolve their ambivalence about making meaningful personal changes in their lives.

This CD features staff members of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) telling stories about MI from their experiences as direct-service providers, consultants, and trainers

| listen & learn more |

AUDIO SAMPLE 5: CENTER FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES (EBPs)

The Podacst Archives is a collection of conversations with people involved in the implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) and other services designed to improve quality-of-life for people diagnosed with severe mental illness and co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use disorders.

| listen & learn more |

Matthew K. Weiland, MA, is senior writer, producer, and new-media specialist and Paul M. Kubek, MA, is director of communications at the Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University.