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.
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.
Join the Learning Collaborative To:
Save Money“The use of the (Recovery Needs Level) RNL in Boulder has assisted clients to move forward in their recovery by showing when they are ready for more independence and self-responsibility. This instrument has been critical in enabling our agency to use our resources where they are most effective.” Charlotte Wollesen |
Help People Get Better“Recovery has meant a full quality of life…being able to work again…enjoying my friends and family and just living normally.” Barbara |
Ensure Excellent Staff“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 |
Use of the Four Measures of Recovery
Members of the Reaching Recovery 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.
Our learning collaborative partners use the Four Measures of Recovery to link outcomes to service effectiveness and system transformation. This gives our 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.
Frequently Asked Questions about Joining the Learning Collaborative:
- What measurement points do we use?
- How reliable are the instruments?
- How will these instruments work with our Electronic Medical Record?
- Do you need an electronic medical record?
- How easy is it for clinicians to enter the data and to use the data?
- How often is the data collected?
- What is your definition of recovery?
- Do I have to use all of the instruments at once?
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