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Making Public Mental-Health Services Accessible to Deaf Consumers: Illinois Deaf Services 2000
- American Annals of the Deaf
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 148, Number 5, Spring 2004
- pp. 396-403
- 10.1353/aad.2004.0008
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Illinois Deaf Services2000 (IDS2000), a public/private partnership, promotes the creation and implementation of strategies to develop and increase access to mental health services for deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, and deaf-blind consumers. IDS2000 has resulted in the establishment of service accessibility standards, a technical support and adherence monitoring system,and the beginnings of a statewide telepsychiatry service.These system modifications have resulted in increase by 60% from baseline survey data in the number of deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, and deaf-blind consumers identified in community mental-health agencies in Illinois. Depending on the situation of deaf services staff and infrastructure, much of IDS2000 could be replicated in other states in a mostly budget-neutral manner.