Measuring recovery promotes practice which results in recovery
Mental health centers around the country are struggling with issues of implementing recovery focused services, evidenced based practice, and meaningful and reliable outcomes measurement. The Reaching Recovery Initiative provides a conceptual framework for bringing these elements into one process. It provides the centers with the ability to measure best practices as well as develop new practices and enables centers to report meaningful progress of consumers to all stakeholders.
“To see a client start to orient themselves to possibilities…it’s very rewarding, very encouraging to see that your work is having some outcomes and some benefits and to measure that with recovery markers is real effective as well.”
Steve Fisher, MA, LPC
Program Manager
MHCD Clermont Wellness Center
“Recovery has meant a full quality of life…being able to work again…enjoying my friends and family and just living normally.”
Barbara
MHCD consumer
Forming a learning collaborative
Reaching Recovery is creating a learning collaborative which centers can join to share recovery knowledge and experience and to eliminate the need for each center to conduct the rigorous and intensive work to ensure reliability and validity of instruments, which MHCD has already done.
MHCD’s Reaching Recovery is the umbrella where all the elements – measurement, implementation, clinical and consumer experience – come together to help centers transform themselves into an outcomes-minded, strengths-based, recovery oriented system.
A recovery-oriented mental health system can’t be developed alone.
Members of our learning collaborative can share information using our state-of-the art technology and psychometric methods. No special software is needed. Data is easily entered into a web-based system where it can be shared and discussed among staff, clinicians and consumers and even with other recovery orientated partner agencies.
Partner agencies use the Four Measures of Recovery
Reaching Recovery’s Four Measures of Recovery are tested, reliable and valid instruments developed to capture the multiple views and multiple factors that make up the concept of recovery. Data like:
- The consumer’s evaluation of the mental health center
- The consumer’s perception of their own recovery
- The best level of service for a specific stage of recovery
The Four Measures of Recovery are also used to link outcomes to service effectiveness and system transformation. This gives our learning collaborative partners a comprehensive picture and standardized methods for examining effectiveness of services and measuring outcomes as well as demonstrating the value of these services to funding bodies.
The Four Measures of Recovery:
• Recovery Marker Inventor
Staff rating of consumer's progres
• PRO: Promoting Recovery in Organizations
The consumer’s evaluation of the mental health center
• Consumer Recovery Measure
Consumer’s rating of their own recovery
• Recovery Needs Level
The best level of service for a specific stage of recovery
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