Mental health consumers as case management aides.

摘要: Mental health consumers with chronic mental illness were trained for employment as case management aides in a psychiatric rehabilitation project Denver. The incorporated cooperative arrangements between the system and vocational occupational education agencies. process used to recruit, select, train, employ consumer is described. Eighteen of 25 trainees who began training completed program, 17 moved on aides. At two-year follow-up, 15 still employed had required total only two bed-days hospitalization since ended.