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2006 Statewide Survey of Drop-In Centers in Pennsylvania

LaKeetra McClaine UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration Jim McCormack, PhD. MHASP John Farmer I CAN in Pennsylvania Mark Salzer, PhD. UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration. 2006 Statewide Survey of Drop-In Centers in Pennsylvania. Statewide DIC Survey Purpose.

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2006 Statewide Survey of Drop-In Centers in Pennsylvania

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  1. LaKeetra McClaine UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration Jim McCormack, PhD. MHASP John Farmer I CAN in Pennsylvania Mark Salzer, PhD. UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration 2006 Statewide Survey of Drop-In Centers in Pennsylvania

  2. Statewide DIC Survey Purpose • Gather information about: • Basic Drop-In Center (DIC) operations and staffing • Assess level of consumer involvement • Understand provider knowledge about DICs, recovery, and empowerment, and its relationship to their support of DICs • Describe common (and uncommon) DIC activities • DIC Operational Challenges • Use data for: • Informing others about DICs • DIC program improvement • Compare results to those obtained from survey conducted by McCormack in 1996

  3. Survey Methods • Surveys were administered at the annual Drop-In Center Conference (May 2006) • Raffle incentive for completing the survey • I CAN provided a complete list of known DICs in PA • Surveys were mailed directly to the DICs that did not complete a survey at the conference in Summer 2006 • Follow up phone calls were placed to the centers to remind them to complete the survey

  4. Sample • Our final sample was 58 DICs out 93 known DICs (62% response rate) • We received a total of 62 surveys out of the 93 (67% response rate • Four surveys had to be discarded because they were incomplete • Surveys from 34 service systems • All PA regions represented • Area • Urban: 38% • Suburban: 16% • Rural: 45%

  5. Attendance • Average Daily Attendance: 22 people • Range: 5 – 65 people • 1-20 people: 31 (59%) of DICs • 21-40 people: 19 (36%) of DICs • 41+ people: 2 (4%) of DICs • 6 DICs did not respond

  6. Hours of Operation • Average hours of operation: 35 hours/week • Range: 3 – 77 hours • 1-20 hours/week: 11 (21%) of DICs • 21-40 hours/week: 28 (52%) of DICs • 41+ hours/week: 15 (28%) of DICs • 4 DICs did not respond

  7. Staffing Levels • Average Paid Non-consumer staff: 2 people • Range: 0 – 12 people • Paid Consumer staff: 3 people • Range: 0 – 20 people • Average Total Paid staff members: 5 people • Range 0 – 22 people • 7 sites completely volunteer (no paid staff)

  8. Consumer Involvement in Decision-Making ** Missing >20% of responses. Suggests an overestimate.

  9. Provider Knowledge about Recovery and Empowerment and Their Support • How well informed about empowerment and recovery? • 34% felt that local mental health providers are “very well informed” and 36% said “moderately informed” • 59% felt that County OMH is “very well informed” and 20% said “moderately informed” • How cooperative in supporting DIC activities? • 39% felt that providers are “very cooperative” and 27% said “moderately cooperative” • 54% felt that the County OMH is “very cooperative” and said 29% “moderately cooperative”

  10. Provider Knowledge about Recovery and Empowerment and Their Support • Correlation between knowledge and support: • Provider knowledge about recovery and empowerment and their support correlated 0.41 (p = 0.002) • County knowledge about recovery and empowerment and their support correlated 0.74 (p < 0.001) • County OMH’s and providers that were thought to be more knowledgeable about recovery empowerment were thought to be more supportive of DIC activities.

  11. DIC Activities: Collaboration with Other Providers

  12. DIC Activities: Career - Oriented

  13. DIC Activities: Housing Supports & Transportation

  14. DIC Activities: Self-Determination & Peer Support

  15. DIC Activities: Civic Engagement

  16. DIC Activities: Advocacy

  17. DIC Activities: Advocacy, continued

  18. DIC Activities: Institution-to-Community Transitions

  19. DIC Activities: Misc. NOTE: Further analysis will include open-ended responses.

  20. DIC Challenges: Consumer Involvement

  21. DIC Challenges: Consumer Behavior

  22. DIC Challenges: Community Engagement

  23. DIC Challenges: Operations

  24. DIC Challenges: MH System Support

  25. What does all this mean to you?What are some implications of these survey results?

  26. Implications • Consider adding more activities to promote community integration • In the “DIC challenges” section there were identified problems (i.e., >20%) in many areas – this suggest a need to share ideas for addressing these challenges • For example, workgroups to address increasing consumer involvement.

  27. Implications • Possible ways to increase support for DICs: • Important to educate providers about Drop-In Center activities. • Increase training to providers about recovery and consumer empowerment.

  28. To Be Continued… • 1996 -- Jim McCormack and I CAN conducted a survey of the Drop-In Centers (DICs) in Pennsylvania. • We will be conducting further analysis of the data from this survey in comparison with the survey data from 1995 to assess for changes that have occurred over time.

  29. For More Information • Contact Katy Kaplan at: • 215-746-6713 or katykap@mail.med.upenn.edu • Visit our website @ www.upennrrtc.org • More information about Community Integration (CI) • CI Tools (fact sheets)

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