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01-06-2012 | Original Paper

Seven Key Strategies that Work Together to Create Recovery Based Transformation

Authors: P. Antonio Olmos-Gallo, Roy Starks, Kathryn DeRoche Lusczakoski, Steve Huff, Kristi Mock

Published in: Community Mental Health Journal | Issue 3/2012

Abstract

This article describes seven key strategies used by the Mental Health Center of Denver in its quest to become a recovery-focused center. The description includes circumstances that were converted into opportunities for multi-level changes within the organization. The changes described include: (a) Vision and persistent leadership, (b) Consumer inclusion and involvement, (c) Seize opportunities to add recovery oriented ideas into clinical practice, (d) Providing the right level of service at the right time, (e) On site staff recovery training, (f) Hiring the right people, and (g) Outcome driven learning and quality improvement. We share our quest to show other centers that although system transformation takes work, it is something that centers across the nation can accomplish, and it makes our work much more meaningful.

Recovery from mental illness is a non-linear process of growth by which people gradually move from lower to higher levels of fulfillment in the areas of safety, hope, level of symptom interference, social networks, and active growth.

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Title: Seven Key Strategies that Work Together to Create Recovery Based Transformation
Authors: P. Antonio Olmos-Gallo
Roy Starks
Kathryn DeRoche Lusczakoski
Steve Huff
Kristi Mock
Publication date: 01-06-2012
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Community Mental Health Journal / Issue 3/2012
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-011-9441-6

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