EQUITY e-newsletter: March 2007

Supporting Recovery for People with Mental Illness through Building Assets

EQUITY March 2007: Feature Article

Financial Service Model for Individuals Living with Mental Illness Margaret Swarbrick, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives, demonstrates how one program in New Jersey provides a promising support model for people with mental health issues by helping them build assets.

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Asset Accumulation Through Individual Development Accounts in Chicago

Judith A. Cook, Ph.D., Director of the University of Illinois at Chicago, National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability, introduces a new Individual Development Account program for people with mental illness.

Confidence in Life is a Beautiful Thing: Pete Badenhausen

Congratulations to Pete, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey’s Individual Development Account program’s first homeowner.

Tips for helping people with mental illness wanting to save money and build assets

 

Equity Responds: WID Answers Your Questions

I have a participant in our financial education class that has a mental illness and when he is on his medication, he is fine; yet, without the drugs, he is constantly disrupting class. How should I handle this?