Recovery Core Values

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Recovery Core Values
November 2002
Washington, DC
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CCAR
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery
Putting a positive face on recovery
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• CCAR Vision
• Society sees addiction treatment and recovery as
  a heroic and positive effort by the year 2005.
• CCAR Operational Values
• Authentic Voice
• Primacy of Recovery
• Participatory Process
• Leadership Development
• Cultural Diversity

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• Advocacy Impact
• March 2002 Informational Forum before the
  Connecticut Legislatures Judiciary Committee
• September 2002 3rd Annual Recovery Walks!
• September 2002 Recovery Conference recovery
  Works Implementing a Recovery-Oriented System
  of Care
• 7 CCAR Chapters
• November 2002 Membership tops 2500
• Posters, CD-ROM, Video Putting a Face on
  Recovery distributed nationwide

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Advocacy Unlimited, Inc.
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The primary goal of Advocacy Unlimited is the
education of advocates who are VISIBLE, VOCAL,
and STRONG
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• Recovery Core Values
• Connecticut 1999
• The CT Department of Mental Health and Addiction
  Services (DMHAS) begins to re-design their system
  of care
• Forms a Partnership Council
• DMHAS presents a plan to the Council
• Treatment providers presented an alternative
  plan
• CCAR and AU representatives met to review plans
  and develop a response

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• Recovery Core Values
• Connecticut 2002
• Advocates agreed to support provider proposal by
  developing the Recovery Core Values
• Recovery Core Values were presented for the
  first time at a DMHAS Partnership Council meeting
• Commissioner speaks publicly about the resulting
  shift in focus
• First time addiction recovery and mental health
  advocates came together with a positive result

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• Impact
• Recovery Core Values have been presented to
  several treatment facilities with changes being
  made
• DMHAS leadership is actively promoting a
  Recovery-Oriented System of Care
• DMHAS State Advisory Board voted to adopt the
  Recovery Core Values
• CCAR, AU and DMHAS joined forces to submit a
  winning CSAT conference grant based on the
  Recovery Core Values
• A one-day recovery conference was held in
  November 2001 to promote the Recovery Core Values
  and begin development of a Recovery-Oriented
  System of Care

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• Recovery Works Implementing a Recovery-Oriented
  System of Care
• Two-day conference September 18-19, 2002
• Funded by CSAT Conference Grant and DMHAS
• Purpose of Conference
• To re-state DMHASs intent to implement a
  Recovery Oriented System of Care for both Mental
  Health and Addiction Treatment
• To re-enforce that the Recovery Oriented System
  of Care is based on the Recovery Core Values
  developed by Advocacy Unlimited and CCAR.

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• Conference
• Over 400 attendees each day
• Treatment providers from both addictions and
  mental health
• Members from both recovery communities
• Nationally known speakers from both fields
  Bill White, Rick Sampson, Bill Anthony, Pat
  Deegan.
• 18 workshops related to a recovery-oriented
  system of care

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• Conference
• Executive Directors from three distinguished
  addictions treatment programs present on their
  experience with the Recovery Core Values
• DMHAS Commissioner Tom Kirk officially releases
  his Policy Statement No. 83 Promoting a
  Recovery-Oriented System of Care

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• Post Conference
• All DMHAS policies being reviewed and changed to
  reflect recovery approach
• DMHAS announces hiring consultants to lead in
  the implementation of the Recovery-Oriented
  System of Care
• DMHAS has established a Recovery Academy

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• Benefits to CCAR, AU
• A tool for mental health advocates to push
  recovery
• A tool for addiction recovery advocates to help
  bridge the gap between the treatment community
  and recovery community
• Helped to give CCAR credibility, legitimacy
  within DMHAS and other State Departments
• Serves as a framework to work with other
  treatment systems within the state
• Serves as a framework to work with individual
  treatment providers
• It is a model that can be replicated in other
  communities

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Recovery Core Values First recommendation that
the Department of Mental Health and Addiction
Services change the name of the agency by 2005
to The Department of Mental Health and
Addiction Recovery Services
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• Recovery Basic Premises
• All individuals are unique and have specific
  needs, goals, health attitudes and behaviors, and
  expectations for recovery
•  Persons with mental illness, alcohol or drug
  addiction, or both, share some similarities,
  however, management of their own lives and
  mastery of their own futures will require
  different pathways at times
• All persons shall be offered equal access to
  treatment and have the opportunity to participate
  in their recovery process
• The funding agency shall support a recovery
  oriented system of care that requires their
  funded and/or operated treatment programs to
  treat individuals based on the following recovery
  based core values

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• Recovery Core Values
• The treatment of an individual must be
  approached from a total recovery process starting
  from the acute phase to their return to the
  community.
•  The entire treatment system must support the
  concept of Recovery, not just in word, but in
  action.
• The system shall be driven by recovery-based
  outcomes that Persons in Recovery help to
  develop.
• A new nomenclature that reflects recovery-based
  and person-first language (for example, Recovery
  Plans will replace Treatment Plans, etc.)
  shall be promoted and used.

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• Recovery Core Values
• Persons in Recovery shall participate in all
  phases of the funding agencys Request for
  Proposal (RFP) process whenever the process is
  invoked.
• There shall be a strong commitment to Peer
  Support and to having Recovery-Operated Services
  provided by recovering persons.
• There shall be no wrong doors when entering into
  the treatment system.
•  An individual may enter any appropriate level of
  care when needed not just at times of crisis.
•  An individuals choice must be respected in
  matters related to his/her treatment.

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• Recovery Core Values
• No Outcomes? No Income! Providers shall be
  reimbursed for services provided, outcomes met,
  and persons served.
•  The treatment system shall be designed so as to
  allow the marketplace to bear on the provision of
  services. That is to say that Persons in Recovery
  can influence service delivery by selecting
  providers that are responsive to their specific
  needs.
• Competition plus Checks and Balances plus
  Outcome Measurement equals an Enhanced
  Marketplace! should be a guide when funding
  treatment providers.

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• Recovery Core Values Impact on Stigma
• A first step in reducing stigma is to start in
  our own back yard, our treatment system and
  recovery community.
• Recovery Core Values can help reduce stigma
  related to clients by helping to reinforce that
• The individual has to come first within the
  treatment process.
• Programs look at the total needs of an
  individuals recovery not only while they are in a
  particular treatment modality.

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• Recovery Core Values
• Impact on Stigma
• Treatment should be a process that empowers
  clients
• Client have input into the programs treatment
  process
• There be active and relevant client advisory
  groups.
• More qualified persons in recovery should be
  hired as councilors
• Helps brings the Recovery perspective back to
  the Treatment System.