1. Recovery 101
The Lens of Discovery

2. Learning environment
Personal Wellness
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3. Today we’ll learn about:
The meaning of recovery
Person-centered and person-driven
strategies
Different Barriers to Recovery
Steps to establishing and strengthening a
recovery oriented workplace

4. ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM What we hold about ourselves and others
Is it true
When we are well is it easier to see the strength is ourselves and in others?
Exercise for us to reflect about any bias or beliefs we hold about ourselves and others, can’t have that belief without holding it for ourselves. Is a belief that we don’t talk about it. Want to say it but don’t want to say it. We all have different understanding and thing that keep us from recovery we don’t talk about, stigma around sharing it. Why aren’t we talking about it, why aren’t we open to hear what others are saying, why aren’t we listening or believing what people are saying, why don’t we talk about them, are there asumption we are holding about someones recovery or our own abilities.

5. Elephants Activity
Assumptions we hold about our self and the people we work with or serve are….
Reservations or objections we have related to the concepts of Recovery are….
The reflection of myself I see in others is…..

6. What is Recovery? Recovery mean……..
Scribe a list from the participants
What does Recovery mean in practice? 4 domains

7. Understanding Recovery as a Foundation for Practice
Peer Support: lived experience of practitioners
Social Determinants
Culturally appropriate
Trauma informed
Working to promote HOPE and enhance opportunity and restore control to people over their own lives
SAMHSA definition

8. SAMHSA
A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential

9. Recovery Oriented Practice and Services
“The overall aim of mental health services is to help the service users get back to living an ordinary life as far as possible”
“The goal of Recovery can be stated as allowing people to live full, satisfying and contributing lives”.
Enhance HOPE, Control and Opportunity!
We have a commitment to recovery service now how to we put them into practice? There is no blue print, but to be more supportive of people in their recovery.

10. Key Domains for Recovery Supporting Practice
Working Relationships: practitioners demonstrate a genuine desire to support individuals and their families to fulfill their potential and to shape their own future.
Supporting Personally Defined Recovery: practitioners focus on personally defined recovery and view of recovery.
Organizational Commitment: organizations that support recovery demonstrate a commitment to promoting recovery oriented services.
Promoting Citizenship: support recovery, advocating the right to a meaningful life.
The relationship and interactions between the practitioners and the people they seek to serve.

11. The Role of the Recovery Practitioner
Personal recovery is based on the individual becoming active and empowered in their own life, self determined and self managed.
A recovery oriented practitioner is able to support people in their recovery.
Living well takes on a much broader view!
Having a home, personal relationships, a job,
Respectful relationship and genuine interest in the person
Support HOPE and independence

12. The Eight Dimensions of Wellness

13. Barriers to Recovery
Let’s check in to see if anyone has experienced a shift in their belief or understanding of recovery

14. It’s not about the nail [INSERT VIDEO HERE]
This is sometimes what it feels like when you really have a need to be heard. This is sometimes what it feels like when you’re trying to help someone in their recovery.
Imagine the woman in the video is a client and the man is someone trying to help her through recovery.
What are some of the barriers to recovery from the woman's perspective? What are the barriers from the e mans perspective?

15. Barriers at All Levels Individual Group Provider System Societal
Exercise: fold your paper in half and in half again, write one word in each square, list the barriers for each barriers. For example Individual barriers to recovery might be income, access, transportation, lack of support. Practitioners cannot “Recover” people.
Groups barriers, “birds of a feather flock together” how many of you have heard this saying? People closest to you might be creating barriers for you by enabling unhealthily habits and choices, or discouraging you form improving your situation, even well meaning friends and family can obstruct someone's recovery because they are thinking more about maintaining their own role in the current dynamic than seeing their loved one get better.
Other examples of group barriers: mistrust of the MH system, denying there is a problem.
Provider Barriers: long appointment waits, rushed appointments, provider burnout
System barriers: lack of training in recovery, pushing medication, no direct access
Societal barriers: people bias about people with mental health issues, places to live, work, relationships, law enforcement, TV, movies

16. Other Barriers? Discussion:
Can you think of other barriers to recovery that occur on the individual, group, provider, system, or societal levels?
What can be done to overcome these barriers?
Exercise: How can the awareness and removal of barriers make a difference in the effectiveness of mental health services? What are some other barriers we can remove so that people in need have better access to care?

17. Creating and Sustaining a Recovery-Oriented Workplace
Bring in the IPS fidelity scale and zero exclusion

18. Skills for Practitioners
Creating a hospitable and welcoming environment
Supporting self-management
Building on strengths and working to personal goals
Allowing self direction and control
Working with peer Support
Recovery education for personal recovery
Bringing it all together: Recovery oriented care planning
Developing natural supports and promoting community participation

19. Supporting Self-Management
Developing educational and supportive roles
Work in partnership to recognize and engage in with their own resourcefulness
Encourage self determining of their care
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)

20. Building on Strengths Shift in thinking Use abilities to achieve goals
Using strengths assessments
Provide challenges
Job shadow
Take a class or attend a training
Help on a project or event

21. Recovery Education Shift from “treating” to “learning and allowing”
Create learning opportunities for staff and participants to learn together
Recovery oriented care-planning
Developing natural supports and promoting community participation
Culture of recovery
Promote safety, person involvement in care planning, focus on strengths on problems or risk, building strengths toward recovery, personal recovery plan, WRAP. Documentation,

22. Strategies to Promote Recovery-Oriented Workplace
Peer support services
Comprehensive workforce training
WRAP, Wellness Recovery Action Planning
Celebrating Success
Sharing Recovery Stories
Welcoming engagement
Advisory or Recovery committee
8 Dimensions of Wellness
others
Trees of success, recovery stories, staff meeting check ins, wellness challenges for staff, newsletter, recognitions, art work, advisory board, celebrations together, language people with lived experience encouraged to apply, leadership champion for recovery,

23. The Power of Empathy [INSERT VIDEO HERE]
The video demonstrates the power of empathy and why effective peer support requires the meeting of equals. Sympathy (feeling sorry for someone) is very different from Empathy (brings people together while sympathy drives them apart.
Does anyone have an example??? Where someone used sympathy as a tool rather than Empathy? What happened? What might have happened if the person engaged Empathy instead?

24. Debrief Have Your Views Changed?
Heart: What was felt - any changes in values, beliefs, or how it relates back to the work we do.
Head: What was learned – ideas, concepts, facts, etc.
Feet: Action Steps & takeaways – what action steps will be taken or new skills learned & used, etc.

25. Contact me: Jkeenen@optionsonline.org
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