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• Alfred Psychiatry Consumer Participation Program: Staff-Consumer Collaboration in Treatment: Final Report
  Publication Date: 2001, Pages: 62 , Author/Source: Kroschel, Jon, Alfred Psychiatry Consumer Participation Group
  This report documents a consumer participation project undertaken in partnership between the Alfred Psychiatry and members of the Alfred Psychiatry Consumer Group. The project was funded through the Consumer and Provider Partnerships in Health (CAPPs) Project by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care.
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• Enhancing consumer participation within psychiatric nursing academia
  Publication Date: 2001, Pages: 50 , Author/Source: Happell, Brenda and Roper, Cath
  The aim of this consumer/provider partnership was to promote consumer participation in the education of mental health professionals through the creation of a 'consumer academic' staff position at the Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice. This report outlines the processes through which this position was implemented, details activities undertaken by the consumer academic, and examines key learnings of the project. The project was funded by the Department of Aged Care as part of a Consumer and Provider Partnerships in Health Project (CAPPs) which was designed to further develop the evidence base underpinning effective consumer participation.
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