recovery core values recovery works: reframing our system of care november 29, 2001 new britain, ct
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Recovery Core Values
Recovery Works: Reframing Our System of Care November 29,
2001 New Britain, CT
CCARCCARConnecticut Community for Addiction Connecticut Community for Addiction
RecoveryRecovery
“Putting a positive face on recovery”
CCAR VisionCCAR Vision
Society sees addiction treatment and recovery as a heroic and positive effort by the year 2005.
CCAR MissionCCAR Mission
Each and every person in the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery will strive to ensure that people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction will be treated with dignity and
respect in their recovery process regardless of the type of addiction, treatment or support.
We seek to involve recovering people, their families, significant others and friends in educating policy makers,services
providers, legislators and the general public about the addiction recovery process.
Our goal is to empower recovering people in their physical, emotional and spiritual growth and provide the opportunity for
them to make significant contributions to themselves, their families and our society.
CCAR Core CCAR Core Operational ValuesOperational Values
•Authentic Voice
•Primacy of Recovery
•Participatory Process
•Leadership Development
•Cultural Diversity
CCAR HighlightsCCAR Highlights• Nov 97: First CCAR meeting held
• Jun 98: 5 CCAR members speak at DMHAS conference
• Mar 99: 1st Legislative Day
• Jul 99: 15 CCAR members speak at CSAT Public Hearing
• Sep 99: “In Celebration of Recovery!” conference
• Mar 00: 1st edition CD-ROM “Putting a Face on Recovery”
• Sep 00: 1st Recovery Walks!
• Nov 00: 1st Annual Meeting
• Mar 01: 3rd Legislative Day
• Jun 01: 1-hour video “Putting a Face on Recovery”
• Sep 01: 2nd Recovery Walks!
CCAR TrainingCCAR TrainingCCAR holds training sessions designed to increase the advocacy skills of all those who support the vision and mission of our organization. Topics include:
•Community Mobilization: Becoming a Change Agent
•The Language of Recovery
• The Recovery Perspective: Beyond the Treatment Episode
•Racism of the Well-Intended
•The Science and History of Addiction
• Recovery Culture & Treatment Culture
•Presentation Design and Delivery
•Legislative Advocacy
•Use of the Media
NEAARNEAAR Affiliates New England Alliance for Addiction Recovery
Connecticut
CCAR - Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery Project Director: Robert Savage 465 Silas Deane Highway Wethersfield, CT 06109 Phone: 1-860-571-2985 Fax: 1-860-571-2987 Email: [email protected] Website: ccar-recovery.org
Maine
MAAR – Maine Alliance for Addiction Recovery Coordinator: Bruce Curran PO Box 159 West Enfield, ME 04493 Phone: 1-877-868-5679 Fax: 1-207-732-5679 Email: [email protected] Website: recovery4me.org
Massachusetts
MOAR – Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery Coordinator: Maryanne Frangules 30 Winter Street, 11th Floor Boston, MA 02108 Phone: 1-617-423-6627 Fax: 1-617-423-6626 Email: [email protected]
New Hampshire
FOR- NH, Friends of Recovery New Hampshire Coordinator: Joe Harding 1492 Elm Street Manchester, NH 03101 Phone: 1-603-647-4629 Fax: 1-603-647-5977 Email: [email protected] Website: fornh.org
Rhode Island
RICAREs Coordinator: Elizabeth Trimmer 260 West Exchange Street #301 Providence, RI 02903 Phone: 1-402-521-5759 Fax: 1-402-751-7850 Email: [email protected]
Vermont
FOR- VT, Friends of Recovery Vermont Coordinator: Sarah Munro P. O. Box 1202 Montpelier, VT 05601 Phone: 1-802-229-6103 Fax: 1-802-828-5252 Email: [email protected] Website: friendsofrecoveryvt.org
National CampaignNational Campaign
National Summit
October 5-7, 2001
• Robert Wood Johnson/The Alliance Project national campaign
Job description for Campaign Advisory Committee participants:
• Provide input, advice and guidance to The Alliance Project staff and the consultant team to complete the design and begin implementing the national campaign
• Provide early national leadership for the campaign
• Provide input, advice and guidance to The Alliance Project staff and its consultant team on a proposal to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to fund the national campaign
National Recovery OrganizationNational Recovery Organization
Draft Mission Statement
We, as people in recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction, our families, friends and allies, use our journeys
toward wellness to:
Inform the public dialogue,
Strengthen communities, and
Prove recovery is possible.
Through a coordinated, national effort, we support the empowering of recovery communities to educate and
advocate on the national level.
National Recovery OrganizationNational Recovery Organization
• Mobilize people in recovery to advocate for our rights
• Eliminate stigma and discrimination, and open closed doors to jobs, housing, voting rights, and healthcare for people in recovery
• Change existing public policy to ensure access to integrated prevention, treatment, research and recovery
• Remove barriers to access to effective, quality, and timely treatment
• Demand research on addiction’s impact on diverse populations
• Strengthen society through a successful recovery movement
Advocacy Unlimited, Inc.Advocacy Unlimited, Inc.
VISIBLE, VOCAL and STRONG
“The only thing that stands betweena person and what he or she wants
from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to
believe it is possible.”
Robert M. Devas
The primary goal of Advocacy Unlimited,
is the education of
advocates who are
VISIBLE, VOCAL, and STRONG
Recruiting committed and qualified students depends upon:
• The program’s reputation and word-of-mouth endorsements
• Community Presentations
• Collecting Applications
Student selection is based on :
• Applications
• Personal Interviews
• Analysis of “The Dilemma”
• Admissions committee recommendation
The 14-week curriculum includes sessions on:
• History of the Consumer Movement
• Stress and Time Management
• Advocacy and Documentation
• Negotiation Skills
• Body Language
• Patients’ Rights/Informed Consent/Advance Directives
• The ADA/Accessing records
• Housing Issues
• Legislative Process
• Managed Care
• Media Issues
• SSI/SSDI
Classroom Instruction and Skill-Building
Students receive reading assignments each week to prepare for the next class.
Students are instructed by experts in their field
Included in their studies are homework assignments, tests, and preparing a three minute speech on a topic given to them each week.
Public Speaking Training
Self-analysis,
Feedback,
Support.
“Public speaking is the best skill I have learned. Even my personal relationships have benefited. When one knows one is Able, one is less likely to raise Cain.”
Janet Auster
The students’ first public speaking appearance.
Graduation Day
“My goals as an advocate come in the three E’s-- Education, Empowerment, and Enlightenment.”
Joanne O’Connor
“When I began classes I felt that I had nothing meaningful to say. Now I feel that I have plenty to say, and the confidence to say it.”
Dorothy Craven
“What better way to inspire then to have co-suffered ourselves. May all consumers know that there is a way up and out of the hate of stigma and ignorance.”
Lorraine Rovero
Community Placements
The Giveback
Advocate-graduates are expected to:
• Develop and facilitate educational workshops
• Provide individual advocacy, information and referrals
• Help to build, expand and unite the consumer network in their area
Ongoing Support and Continuing Education :
• Weekly phone and personal contact with the Advocate/Educators
• Visits from our Community Support Coordinator
• The development of responsive and relevant continuing education programming
• Attendance at statewide, regional and national meetings
Advocates in ActionAt Our State Capitol
Advocates in ActionDemonstrating at Our State Capitol
Recovery Recovery Core ValuesCore Values
The Department of Mental Health & Addiction ServicesThe Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services
Recommended New Name by the Year 2005
The Department of Mental Health & Addiction Recovery Services
“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.”
--Machiavelli
• All individuals are unique and have specific needs, goals, health attitudes and behaviors, and expectations for recovery
• Persons with mental illness, alcohol or drug addiction, or both, share some similarities, however, management of their own lives and mastery of their own futures will require different pathways at times.
• All persons shall be offered equal access to treatment and have the opportunity to participate in their recovery process
• The funding agency shall support a recovery oriented system of care that requires their funded and/or operated treatment programs to treat individuals based on the following recovery based core values
Recovery Premises
The Recovery Community is comprised of Persons in Recovery, their family members, significant others and friends, and all people who are dedicated to creating equal opportunities for the health and wellness of Persons in Recovery.
The treatment of an individual must be approached from a total recovery process starting from the acute phase to their return to the community.
The entire treatment system must support the concept of Recovery, not just in word, but in action.
Persons in Recovery must have the opportunity to provide input at every level of service provision.
Persons in Recovery shall be able to provide input in all phases of treatment program planning, staffing, and evaluation.
Recovery Core Values Re: Direction
The system shall be driven by recovery-based outcomes that Persons in Recovery help to develop.
A new nomenclature that reflects recovery-based and person-first language (for example, “Recovery Plans” will replace “Treatment Plans”, etc.) shall be promoted and used.
A system-wide training program for all levels of treatment program employees that will address the need for service provision that is rooted in a recovery-based model shall be designed and implemented.
Every effort shall be made to provide services that are culturally diverse, relevant, and competent, as reflected in the treatment process and staff hiring and promotion practices.
Persons in Recovery shall participate in all phases of the funding agency’s Request for Proposal (RFP) process whenever the process is invoked.
Recovery Core Values Re: Direction
There shall be a strong commitment to Peer Support and to having Recovery-Operated Services provided by recovering persons.
Representation by Persons in Recovery on Boards, Task Forces, and Committees remains important, however, there must be an understanding that the voice of the Recovery Community must be strengthened through the powers associated with decision-making roles, voting memberships, and actual oversight responsibilities.
The time and effort of Persons in Recovery shall be recognized as having a financial value in addition to other benefits in providing the services described in this document. Therefore, applicable travel reimbursement, compensation, wages, education, and other resources should be made available to them in recognition of their commitment for the services provided.
Recovery Core Values Re: Direction
There shall be no wrong doors when entering into the treatment system.
Anyone requesting services cannot be refused without first being offered a full intake interview and being provided with a written explanation if refused.
An individual may enter any appropriate level of care when needed not just at times of crisis.
An individual’s choice must be respected in matters related to his/her treatment.
Every person has a right to participate, or not participate in treatment, as he/she sees fit. People from time to time must be able step away from services without receiving threats, given artificial consequences, or experience barriers to re-engagement.
The treatment goals identified by the Person in Recovery will be valued and will be included as a basis for evaluating outcomes.
Recovery Core Values Re: Participation
Programming must be flexible so that services to the Person in Recovery can be individually tailored, as appropriate.
Programming must represent a full menu of culturally competent services, including access to non-traditional therapies. These full menus must be available across the entire state.
Recovery specialists and care managers must be fully knowledgeable of ALL the resources and treatment options available so that the Person in Recovery can choose wisely.
Recovery Core Values Re: Programming
No Outcomes? No Income! Providers shall be reimbursed for services provided, outcomes met, and persons served.
The treatment system shall be designed so as to allow the marketplace to bear on the provision of services. That is to say that Persons in Recovery can influence service delivery by selecting providers that are responsive to their specific needs.
A system of Checks and Balances shall be implemented so that neither the funding agency, an Administrative Services Organization (ASO), or an individual provider of service shall exert undue influence on the provision of services.
Treatment providers must never be put in a position in which they oversee, fund, or direct other treatment providers.
“Competition plus Checks and Balances plus Outcome Measurement equals an Enhanced Marketplace!” should be a guide when funding treatment providers.
Recovery Core Values Re: Funding/Operations
• The Recovery Core Values have been presented to the staff of several state-operated treatment facilities
• DMHAS top leaders are promoting a Recovery-Oriented System of Care
• AUI, CCAR and DMHAS joined forces and submitted and received a grant from CSAT for a two day recovery conference in September 2002.
• Planned today’s one day recovery conference
• DMHAS State Advisory Board voted to adopt the Recovery Core Values
• The Governor’s Alcohol and Drug Policy Council invited Bill White to speak on recovery concepts at a conference on June 13th
• Commissioner Kirk is interested in having Bill White consult with the Department
Results from Developing the Recovery Core Values
• A tool for mental health advocates to push “recovery”
• A tool for addiction recovery advocates to bridge the gap between the treatment community and the recovery community
• Serves as a framework to work within other systems
• Serves as a framework to work with individual treatment providers
• A tool for addressing the issue of stigma
Results from Developing the Recovery Core Values (continued)