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Community Participation Among Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses Leaving Jail

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Studies have found that higher levels of community participation are associated with a number of positive outcomes such as increased recovery and quality of life. People with serious mental illnesses (SMI) leaving jail face a number of barriers that limit their ability to participate in community activities. In this paper we examine whether the combined experience of mental illness and recent discharge from jail furthers the community isolation that is already experienced by individuals with serious mental illnesses. This analysis found that people with SMI recently released from jail had significantly lower levels of community participation in terms of overall number of community participation days and activities, number of time spent in activities individuals identified as important, and on measures of sufficiency related to the time spent engaged in these activities. Community participation is a key component of community re-integration for people with SMI leaving jail. The results of this study show that services for people with SMI leaving jail need to include interventions that foster engagement in community based activities.

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The contents of this publication were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) grant H133B100037 (Salzer, Principal Investigator).  NIDRR is now the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents of this work do not necessarily represent the policy or indicate endorsement of any federal government agency.

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  1. School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 325 Pittsboro St, Campus Box 3550, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

    Amy Blank Wilson

  2. Silver School of Social Work, Ehrenkranz Center, New York University, 1 Washington Square North, New York, NY, 10003, USA

    Stacey L. Barrenger

  3. Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Health Professions, Temple University, 1700 N. Broad St., Ste. 313C, Philadelphia, PA, 19121, USA

    Eugene Brusilovskiy

  4. Department of Public Health, Temple University, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Ritter Annex Room 544A, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA

    Jeffrey Draine

  5. Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Temple University Collaborative On Community Inclusion of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities, Temple University, 1700 N. Broad St., Suite 304, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA

    Mark S. Salzer

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Wilson, A.B., Barrenger, S.L., Brusilovskiy, E. et al. Community Participation Among Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses Leaving Jail. J. Psychosoc. Rehabil. Ment. Health 4, 45–51 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-016-0074-5

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