Mission

The Illinois Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training Institute is based on the idea that training in psychiatric rehabilitation is maximally effective if it marries the expertise and knowledge base of clinical researcher-educators with the firsthand experience and credibility of front-line psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners.  IPRTI is designed to:

¨      Promote high quality psychiatric rehabilitation services throughout the state of Illinois by conducting training needs assessment, and providing training, consultation, and resources to state operated facilities and community service providers.  

¨      Ensure that staff working in state operated facilities and community providers responsible for psychiatric rehabilitation services possess the competencies necessary to perform quality psychiatric rehabilitative services.

¨      Disseminate knowledge of evidence-based practices and help facilitate their implementation.

¨      Maintain a focus on principles of psychiatric rehabilitation and the identification of core competencies for practices in keeping with these principles.

¨      Support and encourage consumer involvement in all aspects of psychiatric rehabilitation, including consumer involvement in the development, design and delivery of training and consultation.

Goal

Promote psychiatric rehabilitation services via training and consultation for the state of Illinois, by utilizing the partnership of an academic institution, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and a psychiatric rehabilitation agency, Thresholds.

Description

Illinois Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training Institute (IPRTI) is funded through a contract with the Illinois Department of Human Services, Office of Mental Health.  IPRTI will develop and implement ongoing needs assessments, design and implement training curricula, and provide on-site training and/or consultation each month at all ten state hospitals and nine community-based psychosocial programs throughout the state.  In addition, IPRTI will be consumer focused.  The institute will utilize consumers in most aspects of its mission, and will support and empower consumers in organizing and providing training skills workshops.