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
Our Experts
Learn More
- Facilitating Post-Traumatic Growth and Recovery—live, online course starting October 7, 2021
- Recovery LIVE: Engaging Youth Voices to Inform Change—free, virtual event on October 28 from 2-3 pm ET
- Building a Comprehensive Continuum of Behavioral Health Supports for Youth and Young Adults
- My Recovery Journey: Steven Samra—video (4:35 minutes)
- Strong and Informed: Supporting Shared Decision-Making in Children’s Mental Health—prepared by C4 staff with funding from SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) project
- Supporting Parents in Recovery—prepared by C4 staff with funding from SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) project
- Supporting Families and Caregivers of Adults with Serious Mental Illness—prepared by C4 staff with funding from SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) project
- Increasing Access to Treatment and Recovery Supports for People with Disabilities resources: overview; disabilities affecting reasoning, memory or learning; mobility limitations; blindness or vision loss; deafness or hearing loss; and tips to increase assessibility—prepared by C4 staff with funding from SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) project
- Opioid Overdose Prevention and Support
- Medication-Assisted Treatment/Medication-Assisted Recovery
- Integrating Peer Workers
- Recovery Housing
- Stigma and Recovery
- 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.