Merging Clinical & Recovery-Oriented Cultures: A Plan for Action

            Beginning in the spring of 2001 the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership and M-POWER, Inc collaborated to offer network service provider sites the opportunity to host trainings.  The series focuses on helping sites develop practical Action Steps for increasing recovery orientation.  We use Core Readings to focus attention on organizational “culture merging” and on a growing body of evidence that persons with psychiatric disabilities, even those most severely ill, do recover.  Cultures that are person-centered, recovery oriented and hopeful are important.

Core Readings include:

• The Executive Summary of the report to the President from the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
• Empirical Correction of Seven Myths about Schizophrenia with Implications for Treatment by Courtenay M. Harding and James H. Zahniser
• Two Personal Recovery stories by Sarah and Andrew

This is An Opportunity to:

• Receive the following CEUs: LICSW, LCSW, LSW, LSWA, LMFT, LMHC, RN and LPN (all sessions must be attended)
• Increase a recovery focus in the work that you do.  MBHP and DMH will be contracting with vendors in a new way that reflects the Presidents New Freedom Commission’s Focus on System Transformation and Recovery.
• Develop practical, do-able Action Steps for your program.
• Receive a report which summarizes your responses to the training and details the Action Steps you developed.

Contact the MPOWER office at 617-442-4111, or at info@m-power.org for the status of this project.

updated 12/07