CommonGround in the Press
In January of 2012 CommonGround made the front page of the Department of Health and Human Services Recovery to Practice newsletter.
In October 2011 CommonGround was featured in the cover story of Behavioral Healthcare magazine.
The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health has published an article about CommonGround and other innovations in consumer/survivor self-management of psychiatric medications.
On November 17th, 2010, an esteemed panel of judges selected CommonGround as a finalist in Ashoka Foundation's Changemakers Patients | Choice | Empowerment competition. Nearly 300 healthcare innovators from around the world submitted entries and it was a great honor to be selected as a top 10 finalist.
In July of 2010, CommonGround was cited by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Innovation (AHRQ) as a healthcare innovation. Read what AHRQ reports about CommonGround and what others say about it.
Michael Lesson, MD, PhD was the first psychiatrist to use CommonGround at the Wyandot Center in Kansas. In April of 2010, Dr. Leeson presented his reflections on using CommonGround and shared decision making in his busy, urban, public sector psychiatric clinic. You can view his slides and read his remarks as presented during the SAMHSA webinar on shared decision making.
