Recovery Council Meeting 02-04-08 Part 3

Part 3: After Lunch

A Presentation by the Michigan Recovery Center of Excellence: Accessible Pathways to Recovery

Five Goals:

• Statewide Network
• Strengthen Impact of Consumer Voice
• Convene statewide recovery conferences
  
• National Michigan outcomes
• Ensure sustainability

Transforming the System

• Dialogue
• Recovery Policy and Practice
  
• Expand use of recovery based strategies
• innovative community based approaches
• Increase access to computers and tech
• access to netwrok of support
• Organize and strengthen voice
• Develop consumer leaders
• New partnerships
• Evidence of success

Benefits to the community

• Organize
• Foster talent
• Develop Leadership
• and much more.

Too hard to keep up. I'll try to get an electronic copy of the presentation and post a link through this blog.

Wayne has been developing virtual organization skills that the MRCE will be able to use and expand. One area is the availability of training. Another is wide scope meetings, webinars, enhanced teleconferences, etc.

Sustainability:

• Full time development person
• Sustainability isn't just about money. It is also about resources.
• High Quality Outcomes will support sustainability
• Full time development Department with 5 staff.
• Inclusion of peers as part of sustainability strategy
• We need your Input!

Input:

• Domain name for the website. Council to vote on some possibilities
• Theme for first Town Hall: Recovery orientation, stakeholders, consumer-led, mental illness oriented
• Important to have a town hall focused on providers
• Town Hall meetings can be held in different areas focused on different issues.
• Providers are resistant to novelty
• Maybe take the town hall to provider conferences
• First one at Guidance Center with virtual links

Implementation of REE

• A draft of the work group draft was passed out. The REE will be implemented at all 46 CMH programs.
• Some fear and resistance can be expected; hence the listing of benefits

We then went over the details of the REE to bring out questions and concerns about individual items. These items will be discussed with Pricilla Ridgeway for their effect on the validity of the instrument. Also, people spoke to their experiences in taking the instrument. Many people felt more positive than they did in using deficit-based instruments. Various comments were made about the scope and intent of the instrument as a whole.

End of Part 3