ROAD TRIP - 13 Peer Run Decision Support Centers
Check out this amazing 3-min video for a whirlwind tour of 13 peer-run Decision Support Centers...
Honoring the Work & Life of Susan Preffer
It's with a sad heart that we share news of the passing of our friend Susan Preffer. For over 10...
One Less Person Overmedicated \o/
As many of us know, being overmedicated is a terrible thing. It can prevent us from using our...
Celebrating the Life of Eddie Taylor
We just received the sad news that Eddie Taylor, a peer specialist in Kansas City, KS, has...
Telepsychiatry and CommonGround
Recently we had the opportunity to meet with peer staff, clinicians and administrators of...
CommonGround and IDD
Some thought people with intellectual development disorders and co-occurring mental health...
Healing and Recovery With CommonGround
This week we got a beautiful note from one of our peer specialists working in a CommonGround...
Making a Difference
Here at Pat Deegan & Associates, we work really hard to create materials that inspire hope...
Why I Created CommonGround - Part 5 of 5
In this final excerpt, I make the point that leadership is a practice, not a position....
Why I Created CommonGround - 4 of 5
In this 4th part of my talk, I discuss shared decision making and how it informed my development...
CommonGround Guides
CommonGround Guides put recovery tools directly into the hands of the people who need them. Each Guide contains education, workbook style exercises, Personal Medicine Cards, tracking tools and reflection questions.
Work & the Dignity of Risk
Sometimes staff are reluctant to refer folks to Supported Employment and Education Specialists. In this E-Learning course, Pat Deegan will teach you a recovery-oriented framework for managing risk and supporting choice.
Recovery Library
The Hope. The Tools. The inspiration to recover after a diagnosis of mental illness. Recovery Library offers thousands of resources to support recovery and is available for individuals and programs.
Author
Pat Deegan
My partner and I founded a company run by and for people in recovery. The mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end I developed the CommonGround Program including Software and the Distressing Voices Simulation.
