Objective: The authors discuss obstacles and incentives associated with successful community-based public-academic liaison activities and illustrate their conclusions by describing their public-academic liaison program, which received the American College of Psychiatrists'first annual Award for Creativity in Psychiatric Education. Method: The first 8 years of a state/university collaboration are described in which the parties involved first developed a variety of innovative services designed to fill specific gaps in the public service delivery system and subsequently integrated academic research and training components

A community-based public-academic liaison program.

Psychiatric training takes place predominantly in institutional settings such as hospitals and outpatient clinics. There are significant benefits associated with training in community “field” sites. Conversely, training programs can be valuable resources for agencies providing residential and/or rehabilitative care for the mentally ill The authors discuss advantages to such affiliations and illustrate these with the affiliation of a halfway house with a psychiatry residency training program.

Barbara Julius

Papers

Longitudinal Exposure to the Seriously Mentally Ill: A Halfway House Affiliation