Combating Stigma within the Michigan Mental Health System:
A Toolkit for Change

Complete Toolkit (PDF)

Additional Materials:

Combating Stigma Brochures

Peer Support Specialists (PDF) (Word document)

Front Line Workers (PDF) (Word document)

Program Supervisors (PDF) (Word document)

Psychiatrists (PDF) (Word document)

Administrators (PDF) (Word document)

Customer Service (PDF) (Word document)

Quality Improvement (PDF) (Word document)

Human Resources (PDF) (Word document)

Finance Directors (PDF) (Word document)

Blank brochure template (Word document)

Articles and abstracts

The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (PDF)

 Structural levels of mental illness stigma and discrimination (PDF)

 A disease like any other? A decade of change in public reactions to Schizophrenia, Depression and Alcohol Dependence (PDF)

 The extent to which caregivers believe most people devalue consumers and their families (PDF)

 What attitudes do psychiatrists hold toward people with mental illness? (PDF)

 Reducing stigma and discrimination: Candidate interventions (PDF)

 Support worker’s attitudes to mental illness: Implications for reducing stigma (PDF)

 Peer support among individuals with severe mental illness: A review of the evidence Electronic access to abstract, must purchase article

 Toward implementation of mental health consumer provider services Electronic access to abstract, must purchase article

 A comparison of stigmatizing attitudes toward persons with Schizophrenia in four stakeholder groups: Perceived likelihood of violence and desire for social distance Electronic access to abstract, must purchase article
  

Evaluation tools

Measurement toolkit: Global anti-stigma program (PDF)

A Toolkit: For evaluating programs meant to erase the stigma of mental illness (PDF)

Evaluation templates

Toolkit Evaluation (Word document)

 Campaign Evaluation (Word document)

Technical assistance is available (PDF)