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Core Competencies for
Facilitating Recovery
Chacku Mathai, Director
Agenda
• Overview of Recovery and Programmatic
Factors
• Engagement and Outreach
• Person-Centered Treatment Planning
• Identifying and Overcoming Programmatic
Barriers to Facilitating Recovery
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Course Objectives
• Describe recovery as an organizing principle
for both mental health and substance use
disorder treatment programs
• List four primary principles of recovery that
guide practitioner core competencies and
programmatic implementation
• Identify four practitioner competencies that
can facilitate recovery
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Small Group Exercise: Recovery
• In your small group
discuss:
– What have you heard,
learned or experienced
about Recovery and
Recovery Oriented
Systems of Care?
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Working Definition of Recovery
Recovery is a process
of change through
which individuals
improve their health
and wellbeing, live a
self-directed life, and
strive to achieve their
full potential.
– SAMHSA, 2011
SAMHSA Recovery Construct
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HOME
↑ Permanent
Housing
HEALTH
↑ Recovery
Individuals
and
Families
PURPOSE
↑ Employment/
Education
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COMMUNITY
↑ Peer/Family/
Recovery
Network
Supports
SAMHSA Guiding Principles of
Recovery
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Hope
Person-Driven
Many Pathways
Holistic
Peer Support
Relational
• Culture
• Addresses
Trauma
• Strengths/Resp
onsibility
• Respect
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Vision for Recovery Across Communities
• Recovery can be expected despite barriers
and obstacles
• Recovery can flourish when barriers and
obstacles are lifted
• We uncover abandoned and/or develop
new hopes and dreams
• We discover our personhood through our
culture, strengths, values, and skills
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Vision for Recovery (continued)
• We recover together and engage
communities as life-sustaining forces
• We re-author the way we see ourselves
• We (re)claim a meaningful life and roles
• We give back to others what we have gained
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Engagement vs. Compliance
• What are the differences between
engagement and compliance?
• What can we look for to determine if a
person or family is engaged?
• What are they engaged with/to?
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Small Group Exercise: Engagement
Strategies
• In your small group
discuss:
– What are the actions
that work best for you
to promote
engagement?
– What are the actions
that inhibit
engagement?
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Cultural Humility
• Ability to maintain an interpersonal stance
that is other-oriented (or open to the other)
in relation to aspects of cultural identity that
are most important to the [person]”
• Life-long commitment to self-evaluation and
critique
• Desire to fix power imbalances
• Develop systems advocacy partnerships
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Exercise
• Write 3 ways in which you would like
your personal life to eventually be
different than it is now.
• Hand that paper to the person sitting
next to you
Person-Centered Planning
Advancing Recovery,
Resiliency and Wellness
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Person-Centered Planning
• is a collaborative process resulting
in a recovery-oriented treatment
plan
• is directed by consumers and
produced in partnership with care
providers and natural supporters
• supports consumer preferences
and a recovery orientation
Adams/Grieder
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THE JOURNEY THROUGH SERVICES
DISCHARGE
FIRST
CONTACT &
INTAKE
PROVIDING &
MONITORING
SERVICE
ASSESSMENT
SETTING
GOALS &
TREATMENT
PLANNING
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Contact Us
Tanya Naranjo
STAR Center Project
Manager
tnaranjo@nami.org
703-312-7887
www.consumerstar.org
Chacku Mathai
STAR Center Director
cmathai@nami.org
703-489-2406