On Our Own, Together: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness

Contributors

285 Contributors Crystal Blyler, Ph.D., is a social science analyst at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services. She was government project officer (GPO) for the COSP Multisite Research Initiative (MRI). Bill Burns-Lynch, M.A., is the former clinical manager and the current director of training and program support at Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP). Jean Campbell, Ph.D., was principal investigator for the Coordinating Center for the Consumer-Operated Services Program (COSP) Multisite Research Initiative. A mental health consumer researcher, she is director of the Program in Consumer Studies and Training at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. Sally Clay, editor of this book, experienced severe episodes of bipolar disorder for 20 years. She founded and worked for several peer-run programs and in the process learned to maintain personal well-being. She was a member of both the COSP Common Ingredients Subcommittee and the Consumer Advisory Panel. As a member of the research team at the PEER Center, she helped to set up a partnership between the Florida and California sites, called “FLiCA.” She maintains a Web site at www.sallyclay.net. Patrick William Corrigan, Psy.D., is a manuscript editor for this book. He was principal investigator for the Illinois COSP site. He has published more OnOurOwnFinalPages.indd฀฀฀285 4/16/05฀฀฀6:11:07฀PM 286 On Our Own Together than one hundred journal articles and book chapters on areas related to serious mental illness. He was editor-in-chief of a tri-annual journal, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills, and has authored three books and edited four books. He is also director and principal investigator of the Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Dianne Côté, M.Ed., acted as consultant for this book. She was executive director of the Portland Coalition in Maine from 1985 to 1989, director of PEOPLe, Inc., in New York from 1990 to 1993, and director of the PEER Center in Florida from 1996 to 2001. Janine M. Elkanich was program director of the Portland Coalition for six years. She has an Associate’s degrees in medical assistance and accounting and is a single mother. She battled severe depression, anxiety, and anorexia nervosa for nearly ten years but has been in recovery since 1996. Nancy Erwin, Ph.D., was principal investigator for the Florida site, 2002–04. Louetta Hix is a member of BRIDGES who says that her life was changed by the peer-run program. After working for BRIDGES, she went back to school and obtained a Master’s degree in community practice social work. Matthew Johnsen, Ph.D. was co-principal investigator for the COSP MRI Coordinating Center. He works for the Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Lorraine Keck was consumer investigator for the COSP project in Illinois and is a former national program coordinator for GROW. Elizabeth McDonel Herr, Ph.D., is a social science analyst at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services. She was government project officer (GPO) for the COSP Multisite Research Initiative (MRI). Terrance Means was formerly a senior supervisor at the Friends Connection . Helen Minth is executive director of the St. Louis Empowerment Center. OnOurOwnFinalPages.indd฀฀฀286 4/16/05฀฀฀6:11:07฀PM Contributors 287 Carol Mussey is national program coordinator for GROW in the United States. Ruth O. Ralph, Ph.D., is a manuscript editor for this book. She is a consumer researcher who has conducted mental health research and evaluation for over twenty-five years and was principal investigator for the Maine COSP site. She has written and presented on recovery in mental health. Now retired, she was senior research associate at Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine. Joseph Rogers is the president and CEO of Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, a consumer-operated program, and was principal investigator for the Pennsylvania COSP site. He is a longtime leader of the national consumer/survivor movement. Mark S. Salzer, Ph.D., was co-principal investigator for the Pennsylvania COSP site. He is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Yvette Sangster founded Advocacy Unlimited, Inc., and was executive director from 1994 to 2002. She is a child-abuse survivor and a consumer of...