"Recovery is a process, a way of life, an attitude, and a way of approaching the day’s challenges. It is not perfectly linear process. At times our course is erratic and we falter, slide back, regroup, and start again…move beyond the limits of the disability, the aspiration is to live, work, and love in a community in which one makes a significant contribution"

Patricia Deegan
Recovery and Recovery Oriented Services Tools for Delivering Recovery Oriented Services

National Consensus Statement on Mental Health Recovery

Over 110 expert panelists participated in the development of this consensus, including mental health consumers, family members, providers, advocates, researchers, academicians, managed care representatives, accreditation organization representatives, State and local public officials, and others. A series of technical papers and reports were commissioned that examined topics such as recovery across the lifespan, definitions of recovery, recovery in cultural contexts, the intersection of mental health and addictions recovery, and the application of recovery at individual, family, community, provider, organizational, and systems levels. They developed this statement about the required components of recovery oriented services.

http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/sma05-4129/

Pennsylvania’s Plan for Implementing Recovery Oriented Services

The Call for Change document establishes a firm foundation for the Pennsylvania transformation to a recovery-oriented mental health system. It offers an understanding of how we’ve arrived at this time of recovery transformation, provides a concise definition of recovery, and further consideration of what a recovery-oriented system is and is not. Indicators are provided to serve as critical reference points for services, agencies and county mental health programs looking for more specific strategies for transforming to more recovery-oriented services. A Call for Change highlights the challenges we have yet to address and the need for us to engage in open, honest discussion and debate about these issues.

http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/Resources/Documents/Pdf/Publications/ACallForChange.pdf

 

Recovery Oriented Services Indicators Measure (ROSI)

The Recovery Oriented System Indicators (ROSI) Measure is the product of the Mental Health Recovery: What Helps and What Hinders? A National Research Project for the Development of Recovery Facilitating System Performance Indicators effort. This research project evolved from collaborative efforts among a team of consumer and non-consumer researchers, state mental health authorities (SMHAs), and a consortium of sponsors working to operationalize a set of mental health system performance indicators for mental health recovery.

http://www.power2u.org/downloads/ROSI-Recovery%20Oriented%20Systems%20Indicators.pdf

ROSI Technical Assistance Teleconferences

January 6, 2009 is the first in a series of Technical Assistance Teleconferences for the ROSI Administrative Indicators. The teleconferences will continue weekly through March 31st on Tuesday mornings at 10:00 a.m.; the sessions will be approximately 1-2 hours in length. Each teleconference will be structured to provide an open forum for questions as well as a focus on one ROSI indicator. Each indicator is scheduled twice to allow for maximum participation.

http://www.parecovery.org/documents/ROSI_Teleconference_Schedule_2009.pdf

Self Directed Care

The Bazelon Center and the UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration have produced a guide to help consumers and other advocates obtain policies that give consumers a primary role in their recovery planning and greater control over how resources are spent to meet their needs. Titled In the Driver’s Seat, the 40-page document includes advocacy strategies and examples of existing programs’ approaches to self-directed care. Fact sheets summarize important aspects such as financing.

http://www.upennrrtc.org/var/tool/file/184-Driverseat_web1.pdf
 
 

 
   
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