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Students enrolled in this course will examine a wide range of community-based services provided for people with severe mental health and substance use disorders including co-occurring mental and substance use disorders. Special attention is given to strengths-based, consumer informed, and evidence-based prevention and treatment models. Content includes, but is not limited to, community-based services in areas of prevention, case management, supported employment, housing, illness management, family support services, dual disorder treatment, and peer support services. Students also examine a variety of issues involved in the provision of community-based services such as ethical and legal issues, quality and continuity of care, health disparities, cultural competency, organizational and financial factors, and other relevant policy and practice issues. Students will examine linkages between community based services and the advancement of human rights and social and economic justice for persons with mental illnesses and substance use disorders.
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