The Temple University Collaborative&#39;s &#34;Collab Chats&#34; is a podcast series focused that introduces listeners to our research and its goal of increasing opportunities for individuals with mental illnesses to live and participate in the community. This podcast features work from the Temple University Collaborative as well as research from other NIDILRR funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers. The Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities, a research and training center located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, is dedicated to the full and meaningful participation of individuals with serious mental illnesses. Funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), the content of these podcasts does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation by the US Federal Government, HHS, the ACL, or NIDILRR.

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Cassandra’s story. Listen to Hannah and Cassandra talk about her volunteer work at local hospital!

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Cassandra’s story. Listen to Hannah and Cassandra talk about her volunteer work at local hospital!

Making a Difference in Your Community - Cassandra's Story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Stacey&#39;s story! Listen to Stacey talk about how she’s made a difference through her church outreach program.

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Stacey&#39;s story! Listen to Stacey talk about how she’s made a difference through her church outreach program.

Making a Difference in Your Community - Stacey's Story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Clinton’s story. Listen to Hannah and Clinton talk about his stoop sessions.

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Clinton’s story. Listen to Hannah and Clinton talk about his stoop sessions.

Making a Difference in Your Community - Clinton's Story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Kyneta&#39;s story. Listen to Hannah and Kyneta talk about her work with community gardens.

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Kyneta&#39;s story. Listen to Hannah and Kyneta talk about her work with community gardens.

Making a Difference in Your Community - Kyneta's Story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is  Kelechi’s story. Listen to Hannah and Kelechi talk about her work with youth participatory action research.

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is  Kelechi’s story. Listen to Hannah and Kelechi talk about her work with youth participatory action research.

Making a Difference in your Community - Kelechi's story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Steph’s story. Listen to Hannah and Steph talk about her work as biking advocate in her city!

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Steph’s story. Listen to Hannah and Steph talk about her work as biking advocate in her city!

Making a Difference in Your Community - Steph's story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Eric’s story. Listen to Eric talk about how he made a difference in his community through storytelling!

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Eric’s story. Listen to Eric talk about how he made a difference in his community through storytelling!

Making a Difference in Your Community - Eric's Story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Stacie&#39;s story! Listen to Stacie talk about her journey of becoming a blind parent, advocating for accessibility, and founding a support group for blind parents.

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Stacie&#39;s story! Listen to Stacie talk about her journey of becoming a blind parent, advocating for accessibility, and founding a support group for blind parents.

Making a Difference in Your Community - Stacie's Story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Amir’s story. Listen to Amir talk about how he made a difference in her community through community gardening and beautification!

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Amir’s story. Listen to Amir talk about how he made a difference in her community through community gardening and beautification!

Making a Difference in Your Community - Amir's Story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is RV’s story. Listen to Hannah and RV talk about RV’s journey into advocacy and volunteering and championing disability accessibility in his community!

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is RV’s story. Listen to Hannah and RV talk about RV’s journey into advocacy and volunteering and championing disability accessibility in his community!

Making a Difference in your Community - RV's story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Kyra’s story. Listen to Hannah and Kyra talk about how she made a difference in her community through the civic collective.

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Kyra’s story. Listen to Hannah and Kyra talk about how she made a difference in her community through the civic collective.

Making a Difference in Your Community - Kyra's story

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Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Virginia’s story. Listen to Virginia talk about how she made a difference in her community through volunteering with nature-oriented organizations!

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who&#39;s made a difference in their community. This is Virginia’s story. Listen to Virginia talk about how she made a difference in her community through volunteering with nature-oriented organizations!

Making a Difference in Your Community - Virginia's Story

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Episode 10 - Peer Support in College Mental Health Initiatives with Kelly Davis

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Episode 9 - Young Professional Peer Support with Kate Fox and Aliki Koumenis

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In Collab Chats Episode 8, Kyra Baker talks with Lindsay Metzker about the development of “From You, I Get the Story: Amplifying the Voices of Students with Mental Health Issues on College Campuses.” This document brings more than 50 student voices to the forefront to help college faculty, administrators, and staff better understand and serve students with significant mental health issues.

In Collab Chats Episode 8, Kyra Baker talks with Lindsay Metzker about the development of “From You, I Get the Story: Amplifying the Voices of Students with Mental Health Issues on College Campuses.” This document brings more than 50 student voices to the forefront to help college faculty, administrators, and staff better understand and serve students with significant mental health issues.

Episode 8: "Amplifying the Voices of Students with Mental Health Issues" with Lindsay Metzker

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In this podcast, Collab member Kyra Baker and intern Tiger Russel-Yeh talk about navigating college while living with serious mental illnesses. They also discuss Kyra&#39;s experiences working as a Supported Education Specialist in the Collaborative&#39;s Campus-Oriented Supported Education Study, and some tips for helping students succeed in their educational endeavors!

In this podcast, Collab member Kyra Baker and intern Tiger Russel-Yeh talk about navigating college while living with serious mental illnesses. They also discuss Kyra&#39;s experiences working as a Supported Education Specialist in the Collaborative&#39;s Campus-Oriented Supported Education Study, and some tips for helping students succeed in their educational endeavors!

Episode 4 Supported Education with Kyra Baker

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In March of 2019, we sat down with Dr. Judith Cook, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Director of the Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy, to talk about one of her recent publications, &#34;Mental Health Self-Directed Care Financing: Efficacy in Improving Outcomes and Controlling Costs for Adults with Serious Mental Illness.&#34; To learn more, or read the full transcription of the podcast visit www.tucollaborative.org

In March of 2019, we sat down with Dr. Judith Cook, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Director of the Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy, to talk about one of her recent publications, &#34;Mental Health Self-Directed Care Financing: Efficacy in Improving Outcomes and Controlling Costs for Adults with Serious Mental Illness.&#34; To learn more, or read the full transcription of the podcast visit www.tucollaborative.org

Episode 2 Dr Judith Cook

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In September of 2018, we sat down with Dr. Mark Salzer, founder and director of the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion to talk about community inclusion for individuals with serious mental illnesses, the center&#39;s work, and the future of community inclusion.  To learn more, or read the full transcription of the podcast visit www.tucollaborative.org. Music provided by Fredji (https://soundcloud.com/fredjimusic/fredji-happy-life-original-mix).

In September of 2018, we sat down with Dr. Mark Salzer, founder and director of the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion to talk about community inclusion for individuals with serious mental illnesses, the center&#39;s work, and the future of community inclusion.  To learn more, or read the full transcription of the podcast visit www.tucollaborative.org. Music provided by Fredji (https://soundcloud.com/fredjimusic/fredji-happy-life-original-mix).

Episode 1 Dr. Mark Salzer

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Dr. Gretchen Snethen and Mr. Brandon Snead discuss a recent bike program they conducted. The Temple University Collaborative recently led four bike pilot programs for consumers of mental healthcare services in Philadelphia. Providers, consumers, bikeshare representatives, and bike advocacy groups worked with us to develop and run groups. Everyone seemed as excited as us throughout the process

Dr. Gretchen Snethen and Mr. Brandon Snead discuss a recent bike program they conducted. The Temple University Collaborative recently led four bike pilot programs for consumers of mental healthcare services in Philadelphia. Providers, consumers, bikeshare representatives, and bike advocacy groups worked with us to develop and run groups. Everyone seemed as excited as us throughout the process

Episode 3 Dr. Gretchen Snethen and Brandon Snead

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In this episode, we had Dr. Gretchen Snethen back on the podcast to tell us about one of her recent studies, Welcoming Spaces. Kyra and Gretchen to talk about creating the study, what types of places participants identified as welcoming, and the importance of creating spaces that are welcoming for all.  The music in this episode was found at http://filmmusic.io, and the song is “Wholesome” by Kevin Macleod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

In this episode, we had Dr. Gretchen Snethen back on the podcast to tell us about one of her recent studies, Welcoming Spaces. Kyra and Gretchen to talk about creating the study, what types of places participants identified as welcoming, and the importance of creating spaces that are welcoming for all.  The music in this episode was found at http://filmmusic.io, and the song is “Wholesome” by Kevin Macleod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

Episode 5 Welcoming Spaces with Gretchen

The Temple University Collaborative's "Collab Chats" is a podcast series focused that introduces listeners to our research and its goal of increasing opportunities for individuals with mental illnesses to live and participate in the community. This podcast features work from the Temple University Collaborative as well as research from other NIDILRR funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers. The Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities, a research and training center located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, is dedicated to the full and meaningful participation of individuals with serious mental illnesses. Funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), the content of these podcasts does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation by the US Federal Government, HHS, the ACL, or NIDILRR.