The Reaching Recovery Program

Effectiveness and efficiency have become the benchmarks for mental health services.

The Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD) has developed the infrastructure and expertise in the development of highly reliable instruments that can be used for the measurement of recovery outcomes. We have extensive experience in the implementation and adaptation of evidence based practices in multiple disciplines: Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Prevention Services, HIV, and Supported Employment. Moreover, MHCD has a very competent group of clinical and rehabilitation staff that implements programs based on their experience as well as sound clinical practices. Finally, since the path toward recovery is different for different people, we rely on the experience of all our consumers to learn what works and under what circumstances for different people.

MHCD’s Reaching Recovery initiative is the umbrella where all these elements (measurement, implementation, clinical and consumer experience) come together to help centers transform themselves into an outcomes-minded, strengths-based, recovery oriented system.

The ultimate goal of Reaching Recovery is to learn what works for what group of consumers, under what specific conditions, so we can transform mental health centers into a more strengths based, recovery oriented and outcomes focused system.