A New Concept of Mental Health

The recovery movement is truly a reform in the making. Like the System of Care movement for parents of children and youth with mental health issues, and adult family advocacy groups like the National Alliance for Mental Illness, the recovery movement was born after years of consumer frustration with mental health services. A maturing adult consumer movement began to articulate the word recovery. This concept gained momentum as we began to see more consumers demand a say in how the mental health systems of our country were organized. As part of this movement consumers became trained to deliver peer support services in mental health system.
Most recently the recovery movement has begun to embrace children, youth and their families.

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