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What's in it for the community? Public academic liaison and local mental health agencies

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This paper reviews a triangular relationship in which a state mental health administration, a university, and a local mental health authority (and by extension, community mental health programs) co-exist. The relationship is based on mutual trust and interdependence, both of which are reinforced when certain key positions are developed such that individuals can work in two or more of the three arenas. It is essential that representatives of each group be encouraged to recognize the needs and assets of the other two groups. Specific examples of the benefits of this arrangement are described based on experiences in the state of Oregon.

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  1. Assistant Director of the Oregon Public Psychiatry Training Program, Adjunct Associate Proferssor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University, Oregon, USA

    David A. Pollack M.D. (Medical Director of Mental Health Services West, Inc.)

  2. Director of the Western Mental Health Research Center at Oregon Health Sciences University, Investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Oregon, USA

    Bentson H. McFarland M.D., Ph.D. (Consultant Geropsychiatrist at Mental Health Services West, Inc.)

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This work is supported in part by NIMH grant number P50 MH43458 to the Western Mental Health Research Center at Oregon Health Sciences University. Dr. McFarland is Burroughs-Wellcome Scholar in Pharamacoepidemiology.

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Pollack, D.A., McFarland, B.H. What's in it for the community? Public academic liaison and local mental health agencies. Adm Policy Ment Health 20, 437–448 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00706288

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