The Lake Metroparks Farmpark in Kirtland, Ohio is no ordinary park. It is a living educational museum. John is a participant of evidence-based Supported Employment (SE) services who works at the Farmpark. He has not missed a shift in over four years. His success is partly the result of the open communication he has with his boss, Beth Florian.

Consultant-trainers from the Center for Evidence-based Practices at Case Western Reserve University attended a conference this past July at the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) in Rootstown that focused on best practices for people with schizophrenia.

We are collecting audio recordings of service providers, consumers, and others telling stories of their experiences with evidence-based practices, other service innovations, and recovery. We invite you to share your story.

Neighboring is a provider of integrated mental-health and substance-abuse services in Lake County, Ohio, that has helped the City of Painesville find a sensitive solution for its homeless population. Neighboring is also the 2008 recipient of The Lynn Goff Spirit of Integrated Treatment Award. (Part 1 of 4 of an agency profile).

Renee Molzon went into social work to help emotionally-disturbed children, never anticipating that her professional journey would land her beside homeless adults dealing with severe mental illness and addiction. Molzon takes us inside Neighboring's Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) outreach service for the homeless. (Part 2 of 4 of an agency profile).

Times are especially good for NEIGHBORING's Chief Operating Officer Ken Gill and his Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) team as they are being recognized for raising the standard of exceptional care in Lake County. Gill reflects upon the challenges of implementing IDDT, offers some advice, and shares two stories of consumer recovery. (Part 2 of 4 of an agency profile).

Deana Leber-George is program supervisor and team leader of Integrated Dual Disorder (IDDT) services at Neighboring, a provider of mental-health and substance-abuse services in Mentor, Ohio. She reflects upon lessons learned during implementation of IDDT, provides advice for other supervisors and team leaders, and shares two stories of consumer recovery. (Part 3 of 4 of an agency profile).

The Center for EBP's Ohio SAMI CCOE initiative—in partnership with the Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH), the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS), and the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County—announces the commencement of the IDDT Affiliation Code Initiative. The initiative gives agency providers, county boards, and State of Ohio stakeholders the capacity to collect data and to examine indicators and outcomes systematically.

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.

The advisory committee meeting of the Ohio Tobacco and Recovery Project was held at Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare in Columbus this past spring. Topics of discussion included the results of readiness assessments conducted by consultants, trainers, and evaluators of the Project at mental-health organizations around Ohio interested in the new Tobacco and Recovery model.