Behavioral Health and Recovery
Many people experience mental health and substance use challenges, and much is known about how to support recovery. People can and do recover—and recovery is possible for everyone.
Along with prevention and treatment, recovery-oriented services and supports are integral to an effective response. Recovery-oriented approaches offer coordinated services and supports that are person-centered and build on strengths, culture, and resiliencies of individuals, families, and communities.
Our staff has led federal, state, regional, and local projects to develop and implement recovery-oriented services and supports and has provided training, technical assistance, and consultation to support recovery. We are centrally involved in several recovery-focused Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) initiatives.
Our team includes service providers, trainers, researchers, and people who have experienced mental illness, substance use, trauma, and homelessness. We partner with treatment and prevention experts to ensure coordinated responses. Our work is grounded in our experience with providing and participating in mental health and addiction services. People with lived experience are at the forefront of our work to ensure real-world expertise is embedded in all we do.
We Can Help You
- Develop and implement recovery-oriented systems and services
- Integrate behavioral health and primary care
- Apply harm reduction approaches to engage people at various stages of recovery
- Use shared decision making to activate people in their own care
- Develop strategies to hire, supervise, and retain peer workers
- Build capacity of peer workers via professional development and career ladders
- Integrate medication-assisted treatment/medication-assisted recovery with other services and supports
- Promote recovery-ready workplaces by training employers about the benefits of hiring people in recovery and best practices in outreach and hiring, human resource policies and practices, and supervision and management techniques to support employees in recovery
- Support people in recovery who are ready to re-enter the workforce by providing training in key employment skills and access to trained peer job coaches
- Strengthen the resiliency of young people and their families
- Support parents in recovery
- Implement youth recovery supports
- Facilitate local and national conversations with stakeholders to promote dialogue, build consensus, and advance understanding of recovery
"Relevant, taught with a sense of humor, and meaningful. It gives hope to those we work with today." –Participant in Harm Reduction course
Learn More
- Power Hour: Addressing Stigma and Recovery—free virtual event on January 21 from 2-3 pm ET
- Recovery LIVE: Supporting Black Women's Resilience and Recovery—free virtual event on January 28 from 2-3 pm ET
- Identifying and Dismantling Stigma in Recovery Services—live, online course from February 25-26, 2021
- Leading with Lived Experience: Building Capacity for Peer-run & Recovery Community Organizations—live, online learning community starting March 16, 2021
- Recovery LIVE: Resilience and Recovery through the Holidays & Winter Season—webinar recording (60:25 minutes)
- Power Hour: Roadmap to Racial Equity in Behavioral Health and Recovery Organizations: webinar recording (58:45 minutes)
- My Recovery Journey: Steven Samra (4:35 minute video)
- Opioid Overdose Prevention and Support
- Medication-Assisted Treatment/Medication-Assisted Recovery
- Integrating Peer Workers
- Recovery Housing
- Praxis: Training for MA Addiction Professionals
- Talking About Substance Use and Addiction (PDF)
More about our expertise and our training and technical assistance approaches and offerings.