Recovery to Practice Center Initiative

What is “recovery” in relation to mental illness? And what implications does this concept have for transforming mental health practice to become “recovery‐oriented”? To begin answering these questions, and to promote the transformation of mental health care to a recovery‐orientation, on October 1, 2009, the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Office of the Associate Director for Consumer Affairs, within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), contracted with Development Services Group, Inc. (DSG) to launch a five‐year Recovery to Practice (RTP) initiative.

Within SAMHSA’s workforce development priority area, this initiative seeks to advance a recovery‐oriented approach to mental health care by developing, promoting, and disseminating training curricula on how to translate the concept of mental health recovery into practice; and by providing a Recovery to Practice Recovery Resource Center for mental health professionals engaged in this work. For more information about this center and to subscribe to their newsletter, visit: http://www.dsgonline.com/rtp/resources.html. To receive all Resource Center communications and join the listserv, visit http://www2.dsgonline.com/rtp_listserv/. New resources are being added to the Resource Center on an ongoing basis. Contributors are invited to submit suggestions for useful articles, videos, curricula, and personal stories—as well as announcements about upcoming relevant conferences and meetings—to keep the center robust and current. Reposted at http://darkestcloset.blogspot.com/