Posted on 05/28/2015 11:39:30 AM PDT by massmike
The National Institutes of Health through its National Institute of Mental Health has awarded $52,293 in taxpayer funding to the Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health to study how to reduce discrimination of lesbian, gay and transgender people with schizophrenia by members of the community they are in frequent contact with, like the “convenience store clerk.”
“Inquiry will extend from individuals with schizophrenia to include family members and service providers of participants as well as community members with whom they are in frequent contact (e.g., convenience store clerk),” the grant, titled “Defining Community for LGBT People with Schizophrenia,” stated.
“Sexual and gender minority individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) are amongst the most marginalized individuals in North American society,” the grant stated. “They face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that compound the effects of having a major mental illness, hampering recovery and frustrating efforts to meaningfully participate in our communities.”
“Our work will lay the groundwork for our developing a better understanding about how we can reduce that discrimination in community contexts and develop interventions to facilitate community participation among sexual and gender minority individuals with severe mental illness,” it stated.
“Complementing a study of community participation amongst an ethnoracially diverse group of individuals with schizophrenia in Toronto, Ontario, this project will involve the development of a new arm of the study that would focus specifically on lesbian, gay, and transgender (LGT) people with schizophrenia and those with whom they interact,” it stated.
Sixteen such individuals will be assessed three times over a one-year period, according to the grant.
The project “will provide an intensive and nuanced description of community participation for these groups that will offer policy makers and clinicians in-depth information which may help them in improving services.”
“Using interviews, ethnographic observation, and the creation of maps to geographically locate places of risk and resource, we will examine the physical, social, psychological, political, economics, and cultural dimension of community participation,” the grant stated.
The project began on Aug. 20, 2013, but funding for the project began one year later on Aug. 1, 2014. The project and funding will conclude on July 31, 2015.
CNSNews.com contacted Sean Kidd, project leader for the grant, for comment, but calls and e-mails were not returned by press time.
I didn’t realize this ‘problem’ had already reached epidemic proportions.
Just shows that even nuts dislike queers.
Finally someone understands me.
Well there you go, you just don't hang out at convenience stores enough to see the problems......
Some people really know how to write those requests for government grants. I’m looking for the guy who can write a grant request that will get him a grant to pay for his writing grant requests. I know he must be out there.
Schizophrenia beats being alone.
The premise of the study implies the existence of a mechanism able to identify transgenders who are NOT schizophrenic.
Why does this sound like it was translated by google or something?
Schizophrenia beats being alone.
it means you’ll always have each other...
Any excuse to funnel money their way. Some of these so-called studies I suspect are just a means to fund the endless lawsuits from that, uh, identity.
Should probably teach the convenience store clerks to speak English first.
If a school is started, maybe Joe Biden has a real job in the future!
Schizoephrenic-LGBT-Convenience-Store-Clerk-(and a Partridge-in-a-Pear-Tree) BUMP
Google translated the above from Canadian.
;)
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