Issues of Access to and Inclusion in Behavioral Health Services for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Intersex Consumers

2009

(For resources, this is the publication date. For programs, this is the date posted.)

Information

Guidelines/Recommendations
Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS)
UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration

See This Resource

http://www.parecovery.org/documents/OMHSAS_LGBTQI_Recommendations.pdf

The Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS), through contract with the UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration, formed a workgroup to make recommendations to ensure that OMHSAS and other health providers and agencies acted to reduce disparities in outcomes between GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness and the general population. The workgroup recommendations centered around the goals of ensuring that GLBTQI individuals with a mental illness were protected from mistreatment and offered clinically competent mental health care services in welcoming environments.