Collab Chats

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who's made a difference in their community. This is Clinton’s story. Listen to Hannah and Clinton talk about his stoop sessions.

Each year the Temple University Collaborative releases a calendar focused on community participation. For 2025, our calendar is sharing stories from individuals who's made a difference in their community. This is Stacey's story! Listen to Stacey talk about how she’s made a difference through her church outreach program.

In Collab Chats Episode 8, Kyra Baker talks with Lindsay Metzker about the development of “From You, I Get the Story: Amplifying the Voices of Students with Mental Health Issues on College Campuses.” This document brings more than 50 student voices to the forefront to help college faculty, administrators, and staff better understand and serve students with significant mental health issues. 

Dr. Gretchen Snethen and Mr. Brandon Snead discuss a recent bike program they conducted. The Temple University Collaborative recently led four bike pilot programs for consumers of mental healthcare services in Philadelphia. Providers, consumers, bikeshare representatives, and bike advocacy groups worked with us to develop and run groups. Everyone seemed as excited as us throughout the process

In September of 2018, we sat down with Dr. Mark Salzer, founder and director of the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion to talk about community inclusion for individuals with serious mental illnesses, the center's work, and the future of community inclusion.  To learn more, or read the full transcription of the podcast visit www.tucollaborative.org. Music provided by Fredji (https://soundcloud.com/fredjimusic/fredji-happy-life-original-mix). 

In March of 2019, we sat down with Dr. Judith Cook, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Director of the Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy, to talk about one of her recent publications, "Mental Health Self-Directed Care Financing: Efficacy in Improving Outcomes and Controlling Costs for Adults with Serious Mental Illness." To learn more, or read the full transcription of the podcast visit www.tucollaborative.org 

In this podcast, Collab member Kyra Baker and intern Tiger Russel-Yeh talk about navigating college while living with serious mental illnesses. They also discuss Kyra's experiences working as a Supported Education Specialist in the Collaborative's Campus-Oriented Supported Education Study, and some tips for helping students succeed in their educational endeavors! 

In this episode, we had Dr. Gretchen Snethen back on the podcast to tell us about one of her recent studies, Welcoming Spaces. Kyra and Gretchen to talk about creating the study, what types of places participants identified as welcoming, and the importance of creating spaces that are welcoming for all.  The music in this episode was found at http://filmmusic.io, and the song is “Wholesome” by Kevin Macleod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)