A presentation from Wayne County Systems Transformation Grant (the Recovery Center of Excellence):
- Wayne County CMH has an Executive Director
- 4 initiatives:
- Integrate children and family services to produce real wrap around
- Integration of services to persons with co-occurring disorders (and the stigma that comes along with it), including a focus on persons in jail
- Peer Supports in Supported Working (partnership with MRS)
- Peer Supports in Housing-initial focus was on the people who are in specialized residential homes and AFCs. They will pump in additional services.
- Will use Advocates for Human Potential to provide Technical Assistance
- There is resistance from AFC over having "easier" residents decide they want to move to a freer environment
- Wayne has over 80 PSS
- Housing
- The literacy program is becoming a real center, and was started by peers working part-time
- program focuses on jail diversion, and supported housing and employment.
- They have created a manuals/handbooks for housing and employment
- Regardless of the past, consumers that have the desire to live independently have the right to try, even from an AFC.
- The housing program started with the needs and desires of consumers, including the skills necessary to maintain the housing
- They look at all housing before any consumer sees it. They get clothes, vacuum cleaners, food pantries
- The impact of Peers on consumers view of what they can do is great.
- Jail Diversion
- If I can't carry a clear message to you, its just my head, not my heart.
- They carry a 12 step message, that shows them the possibility of a better life after "the bricks". Peers share stories and hope. It is a dual recovery process.
- Detroit Recovery Project:
- Peer run program for persons with substance abusers
- Many co-occurring disorders
- Broad inclusion goals for both peers and clinicians
- Program is not time limited and follow the person into the community. "Member for Life".
- end of Part 2
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