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RECOVERY

• Presidents New Freedom Commission on Mental
  Health 2003 Report called for a transformation in
  the Mental Health System with the following
  recommendations
• Individuals must have services designed to allow
  them to live, work, learn, and participate fully
  in their community
• Individuals must have access to choice about
  treatment, options and providers.
• Services must be individual and family driven
• The stigma and shame of mental illness must be
  eliminated

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Why Recovery Oriented Services are Necessary

• A frequent lack of access to recovery-oriented
  service systems
• Only a small percent of individuals receive the
  services that can optimize the recovery process
• Many non recovery-oriented services inadvertently
  contribute to treatment noncompliance and
  relapse
• Non recovery-oriented services typically focus
  primarily on reducing symptoms

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Reversing the Effects of Mental Illness

• Recovery is the process of gradually reclaiming
  the various roles of an individuals life
• Recovery is the process of forming new
  connections and interests as the effects of the
  mental illness have less influence on ones
  identity
• Recovery is the process in which the illness
  eventually becomes only one aspect of a more
  enriched and fulfilling sense of self
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• PA Definition of MH Recovery
• Recovery is a self-determined and holistic
  journey that people undertake to heal and grow.
  Recovery is facilitated by relationships and
  environments that provide hope, empowerment,
  choices and opportunities that allow people to
  reach their full potential as contributing
  community members.
• OMHSAS Committee, 2005

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Common Elements of Recovery

• Hope and Optimism
• Individual Choice and Autonomy
• Respect and Dignity
• Partnership
• Empowerment and Personal Control
• Restoration and Personal Growth
• Self Acceptance and Healing
• Adaptability and Capacity to Improve

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What We Are Doing

• FSWP has an established Recovery Committee and
  all consumers, staff and administration are
  encouraged to be a part of this committee
• Consumers have established a committee called
  Consumers Advocating Recovery (CAR) to increase
  consumer membership, increase communications
  about consumer-centered trainings and events, and
  establish ongoing objectives

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Promote Recovery!

• Offer alternatives to learned helplessness
• Believe
• NO MORE US / THEM
• Dont Patronize
• Offer choices and support choices
• Support autonomy
• Promote learning / doing for ones self
• Dont protect!
• Promote peer support
• Allow them the dignity of risk and the right
• to failure

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Acknowledgement
Most information being presented was extracted
from a booklet called Building Better
Tomorrows Recovering from Mental
Illness Developed by the Adult Recovery Network
of Ohio