COSP Study Sites: Illinois
Illinois
The Illinois site has four groups of
collaborators: 1) a consumer-operated mutual help program, GROW in Illinois 2)
community-based mental health service providers in three Illinois communities,
3) a consumer advisory council, and 4) a research team from the University of
Chicago, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
The study combines qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the impact of
GROW on persons with serious mental illness. In addition to the Multi-site
Research Initiative, this study will examine what GROW members themselves
perceive to be the most important processes and outcomes associated with GROW
participation.
With more than 450 groups in six different countries, GROW is based on a network
of structured mutual help groups, a "caring and sharing community"
and a written program of recovery and personal growth. GROW's program and
methods have evolved from the shared knowledge and experience of its recovered
leaders and are sustained through its principles of friendship, leadership, and
mutual education. GROW came to Illinois in 1978, where it currently has 110
groups and is funded largely by the Illinois Office of Mental Health. It also
has a development of groups in Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Hawaii.
Contact GROW at the GROW Branch Center, (217)
352-6989
or Lorraine Keck, Program Coordinator,
(618) 632-7366
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