An analysis of employment data from23 behavioral healthcare organizations in Ohio shows that 36 percent of people with serious mental illness who received evidence-based Supported Employment/Individual Placement and Support (SE/IPS) services were competitively employed in full-time or part-time jobs in September 2011. The number is significant, because the national average was 37 percent in that same month for similar services delivered at multiple organizations in 12 states as part of the Johnson & Johnson-Dartmouth Community Mental Health Program.

Shawnee Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, Ohio has teamed up with the Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University to develop one of the first planning and evaluation instruments in the United States that helps organizations integrate primary and behavioral healthcare for people with severe mental illness. Shawnee is using the new Integrated Treatment Tool to develop and improve primary care facilities and services in its three-county service area. This initiative is funded by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

A research team headed by Amy Blank Wilson of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences examined recidivism rates for 20,112 inmates admitted to the Philadelphia jail system in 2003. After four years, Wilson's team found different rates of recidivism among four different groups of these inmates: 54 percent recidivism for those with severe mental illness; 60 percent for people with no diagnosis; 66 percent for those with substance abuse problems; 68 percent for those with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse.

The North Dakota Department of Human Services has been calling upon Ohio's expertise in the implementation of evidence-based practices for people with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders since 2006. Today, outcomes from the department's data analyses show that the use of Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment has been significantly reducing crisis services, psychiatric hospitalizations, incarcerations, and more.

Part 1 of a series on mental health and addiction-services research and training initiatives at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Discover how the Center for Evidence-Based Practices transfers new treatment technologies to service organizations and hospitals in Ohio, 23 other states, and overseas.

Part 2 of a series on mental health and addiction-services research and training initiatives at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Discover what researchers at the Center on Substance Abuse and Mental Illness have been learning about prenatal exposure to cocaine, social networks of incarcerated women, and the Clubhouse model for adults with schizophrenia.

Part 3 of a series on mental health and addiction-services research and training initiatives at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Two faculty researchers team up with policymakers and service organizations to develop and test a research-informed intervention, called "Project RESTORE," for people with severe mental illness and addiction in the criminal justice system.

Part 4 of a series on mental health and addiction-services research and training initiatives at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. This research project examines the experiences of people with severe mental illness. It explores how their transitioning on and off Medicaid insurance might impact their access to the community-based services that are so essential for health, well-being, and recovery.

Part 6 of a series on mental health and addiction-services research and training initiatives at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Discover what researchers at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education have been learning about incidents of violence that occur every day in homes and neighborhoods: the impacts are just as staggering as news-making incidents like school shootings and armed standoffs.

Researchers from the Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP) at Case Western Reserve University recently conducted an analysis of claims data for behavioral-health services in the State of Ohio and found that Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT), the evidence-based practice, helped save the state approximately $1.4 million in service costs for a group of 160 people diagnosed with a severe mental illness and a co-occurring substance use disorder.