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Since psychiatric rehabilitation programs such as ours are focused on maximizing social functioning and community integration of people with severe mental illness, understanding and combating these attitudes are of significant concern. Findings suggested that both education about mental illness and contact with persons with mental illness can produce positive changes in negative attributions about psychiatric disability. A project planned for the coming year will look at the openness of potential employers and landlords to applications from persons with openly acknowledged severe mental illness. The study will also examine the impact of providing those same employers and landlords with education about disability rights legislation.