The concept of recovery is rooted in the principle that people with mental illness can live, work, learn and lead productive and fulfilling lives given the proper treatment and psychiatric services.
Like many other diseases, mental illness is treatable.
At the Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD) we believe strongly that recovery is possible because we see it happening every day. Years ago we wanted to see if consumer recovery could be the principle around which our entire organization’s mission, vision and services were organized.
The vision of Reaching Recovery is to transform the mental health system from one which just helps people stabilize their illness to one which helps people take the next step and achieve a full and meaningful life in spite of their illness.
We began the process – which lasted for several years – with logic modeling and statistical expertise to insure reliability and validity of the data. In the process we obtained valuable input from all stakeholders, including consumers, case managers, managers, and psychiatrists. This helped us sharpen our focus on recovery and long-term success for consumers and led to the conceptual framework of The Four Measures of Recovery that provide a constant feedback loop about consumer’s recovery.
This highly reliable data provides a great resource for mental health centers to look at the new ways to provide effective services and lays the foundation for an organization to really focus on recovery.
We invite you to watch our video and move around our website to find out more about us and what we are doing. If you are interested in learning more, send us an email at reachingrecovery@mhcd.org.
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