This training manual is published by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) program Improving Mental Health Services on Western Campuses as a result of work done on a grant from the Experimental and Special Training Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. The manual details considerations and ideas that have been found essential in planning programs that use paraprofessionals and allied professionals. Much of the material was assembled in preparation for on-campus testing and refining of the WICHE program's paraprofessional/allied professional model. The remainder of the material results from the knowledge and experience gained through this model's application. The model incorporates ideas and recommendations of task forces that were convened during the first three years of the grant. Membership of the task forces represented all segments of the university community. One of the recommendations the task forces made was that student volunteers or paraprofessionals and allied professionals should become more consistently and intimately involved in the delivery of services to students. The manual deals with planning, selection and training of personnel; the role and evaluation. It also includes a selection process example. (Author/NG)
Authors
- Authorizing Institution
- Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO.
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- Guides - General
- Published in
- United States of America
- Sponsor
- National Inst. of Mental Health (DHEW), Bethesda, MD.
Table of Contents
- Allied pi-ofessionals usually find that the new skills 14
- Crucial iacthrs to bestudied in regard to paraprofessionalailied profesSional. 18
- One factor.is the availability of- funding for such program the 18
- Facilities equipmenttraining materials and secretariol.time 18
- A tilOda tiok Svtemcfle.eping 38
- 4 0 40
- 6 5 65