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 Featured Practice

Crisis Respite. A project of the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network,
the Peer Support and Wellness Center (PSWC) is a peer-run alternative to
traditional mental health services. Services include daily Wellness
Activities, a 24/7 Warm Line and Respite. 

"We are about wellness, not illness," is their motto. 

All staff are Certified Peer Specialists trained in Intentional Peer
Support, which was created by Shery Mead. 

Daily Wellness Activities are holistic and non-clinical in nature, and
include Aroma Therapy, Creative Writing, Art Explorations, bowling, the
Wellness Recovery Action Plan, Double Trouble in Recovery, Trauma
Informed Peer Support, and Job Readiness. Other activities are held in
the community, where events, workshops, and training are taking place. 

The 24/7 Warm Line provides peer support over the phone. Through a
partnership with the Georgia Crisis and Access Line (GCAL), non-crisis
calls from GCAL are transferred to the Warm Line and crisis calls from
the Warm Line are transferred to GCAL. 

"Talking to a peer every day reminds me I am not alone," says one
caller. "It helps me to stay connected." 

"Respite" is a non-clinical alternative to psychiatric hospitalization.
The PSWC has three Respite beds in a residential neighborhood, where
individuals can stay for up to 7 nights, free of charge, and receive
peer support 24 hours a day. Guests cook and clean for themselves and
come and go as they please without any disruption to their daily
routines. To be eligible for Respite, a person completes a "Proactive
Interview" when he or she is doing well. This dialogue serves to build a
relationship with peer staff before a Respite stay is needed. 

Peer relationships are built on mutuality and moving toward a life of
wellness and recovery. The PSWC is a trauma-informed environment where
individuals are treated with dignity and respect. 

"We hold the hope for each person who comes to the PSWC," says Director
Jayme Lynch. "We believe recovery is possible for everyone." 

Two new PSWCs opened on June 30, 2011. One is located in Cartersville,
Georgia; the other is in Cleveland, Georgia. 

-Jayme Lynch, CPS, Director, Peer Support and Wellness Center, Decatur,
Ga. 

 Training and Technical Assistance

 Training and Technical
Assistance<http://www.dsgonline.com/RTP/2011.enews/2011.07.25/images/T_T
A.136x136.jpg> Training. RTP provides quarterly training Webinars on
topics related to recovery-oriented practice. Today, July 28, 2011, RTP
conducted the third of a four-part series, "Step 3 in the
Recovery-Oriented Care Continuum: Promoting Recovery Through
Psychosocial and Social Means." 

This Webinar described a few approaches to promoting recovery that
involve psychological and social interventions. First, David Kingdon,
M.D., updated participants on the state of the art in
cognitive-behavioral psychotherapeutic approaches to serious mental
illnesses (schizophrenia and bipolar disorder). Next, Larry Davidson,
Ph.D., described the key common elements of psychiatric rehabilitation
approaches that involve in vivo support (supported employment,
education, housing, etc.). Finally, Jayme Lynch, CPS, described the role
of consumer-run programs and businesses as they offer alternatives to
traditional programs and settings (e.g., clubhouses). 

You can conveniently download the presentation slides and the complete
recorded session from the RTP Resources Web page at:
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The next RTP Webinar will take place in September. The title will be
"Step 4 in the Recovery-Oriented Care Continuum: Graduation." This
Webinar will complete the series by looking at the "back door" of the
service system-ways to facilitate people in moving on and beyond
specialty behavioral health care. The notion of "graduating" from formal
services is most effective when engaged early in the process, so the
Webinar will begin by addressing ways people can be assisted in making
connections to community resources while still receiving formal
services. Watch your email for the date, time, and details on where and
how to register! 

Technical Assistance. RTP Technical Assistance (TA) provides valuable
resources that support learning strategies for implementing
recovery-oriented care in practical and sustainable ways. We have an
extensive library of recovery-oriented articles, personal stories and
anecdotes, curricula, videos, and links to relevant publications and
professional sources. To access TA, contact RTP TA staff, Monday through
Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., at 877.584.8535, or email requests
to RecoverytoPractice at dsgonline.com
<mailto:RecoverytoPractice at dsgonline.com> . Each request will be
responded to within 48 hours of receipt. Arrangements for longer
consultations are available on a case-by-case basis. 

Although mental health practitioners are the Resource Center's primary
audience, anyone interested in promoting the cause of recovery
transformation is welcome to access RTP training and TA. 

 Project Update

The summer season continues to be very active for RTP. We are extremely
enthusiastic about SAMHSA's approval of the new RTP Web site design,
which fits nicely within SAMHSA's recently refreshed site. Watch for our
announcement and the link soon! 

In other news, our Steering Committee
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dialogue with the professional discipline awardees about their training
outlines, which are now under development. Steering Committee members
asked questions and offered guidance on additional strategies for the
awardees to consider. Our next Steering Committee meeting will be in
December. 

SAMHSA has asked RTP to lead a variety of activities that address the
use of medications in recovery-oriented practice-a topic that is
discussed among many and written about extensively. We are planning a
dialogue in the fall to convene stakeholders who will discuss their
perspectives on an array of subtopics inherent in the medications
conversation, such as efficacy, acceptance in addictions treatment, the
role and impact of culture, and use within primary care settings.
Following this gathering, a series of briefing papers will be made
available through our Web site. A third venue for promoting conversation
about psychopharmacology will be a live Webinar sometime during FY2012.
We will announce the date and time in an upcoming issue of our Weekly
Highlights. 

In addition to working on individual projects, the RTP professional
discipline awardees are joining together and participating as a
multidisciplinary group to share strategies and practices. In June,
Steve Harrington from the National Association of Peer Specialists
presented an RTP poster session at the US Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Association conference in Boston. This October, representatives from the
RTP awardee groups will lead a workshop at the Alternatives Conference.
This is a first for the group as a whole. Jessica Holmes, RTP Project
Director from the Council on Social Work Education, is coordinating the
proposal and arrangements for the group. 

The RTP initiative will also be a focus of four sessions at the upcoming
Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) to be
held in Washington, D.C., August 4-7. These are: 

Thursday 8/4/11 

9:00-9:50 a.m.

Will Psychology be Relevant in the Era of Health Care Reform: The Need
for Recovery-Oriented Care

		
1:00-1:50 p.m.

Treating People with Serious Mental Illness: Development of New
Curriculum and Training Modules for Clinical Psychologists


Friday 8/5/11 

9:00-9:50 a.m.

SAMHSA Priorities and Future Directions (Pam Hyde, J.D., SAMHSA
Administrator)


Sunday 8/7/11 

9:00-9:50 a.m.

Bringing Psychologists into the Revolution of the Recovery Model of
Mental Health Care


In addition to Administrator Hyde, presenters and discussants will
include RTP Project Director Larry Davidson and members of the APA's RTP
Steering and Advisory Committees (Peter Ashenden, Arthur Evans, Mary
Jansen, and Bruce Zahn). 

Finally, the RTP professional discipline awardees are planning a joint
conversation in the near future to discuss how they can participate in
SAMHSA's upcoming National Wellness Week, September 19-23. We are all
looking forward to highlighting recovery-oriented practice among
professionals as part of a major paradigm shift in behavioral health
care. 

 Guest Columnist

 Charles Rapp
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s.rapp.141x141.jpg> Strengths Model and Recovery. One of the major
contributions of social work to the Recovery Movement is the Strengths
Model. First formulated in the early 1980s by the University of Kansas
School of Social Welfare, the Strengths Model was an early harbinger of
recovery-oriented practice. It took a rather radical position at that
time, which emphasized the talents, competencies, and resources of
people and environments rather than the dominant view, which focused on
pathology, deficits, and problems. The six principles of the model are 

1.     People with psychiatric disabilities can recover, reclaim, and
transform their lives.

2.     The focus is on individual strengths, not deficits.

3.     The community is viewed as an oasis of resources.

4.     The client is the director of the helping process.

5.     The worker-client relationship is primary and essential.

6.     The primary setting for work is the community.

The Strengths Model is not just a philosophy or perspective, although it
is both of these things. As a whole, it is a set of values and
principles, a theory of practice, and the explicit practice methods and
tools that, once employed, help clients achieve the goals they set for
themselves. The empirical testing of the model includes two experimental
studies, two quasi-experimental studies, and five non-experimental
studies. Positive results have been found for a wide range of measures,
with improved social functioning and a reduction in symptoms being most
consistent. The most comprehensive treatment of the model is The
Strengths Model: Case Management with People with Psychiatric
Disabilities, written by Charles A. Rapp and Richard J. Goscha and
published by Oxford University Press. 

-Charles A. Rapp, Ph.D., Research Professor, University of Kansas School
of Social Welfare, Lawrence, Kan. 

 Professional Discipline Training Awards

Over the last three months, since the completion of their Situational
Analyses, the RTP professional discipline awardees have taken great
strides in developing their training outlines, moving closer to
characterizing the actual content of the curriculum. They are currently
working closely with their consumer advisors and staff to design
learning experiences where an optimal number of participants interact in
a variety of hands-on exercises, engage as individuals and in small
groups during a dynamic agenda of mixed media, and test their
understanding of putting recovery into practice. 

Awardees have identified the target audience within their profession
that will be eligible for the RTP training based on discoveries revealed
and analyses conducted over the last year. By professional discipline,
the target audiences are as follows (as described by the organization): 

American Psychiatric Association/American Association of Community
Psychiatrists: 

Receivers of training, including 

*	Psychiatry residents, medical students, and fellows;
*	Very early career psychiatrists;
*	Public/community psychiatrists (including National Health
Service Corps and VA); and
*	Inpatient psychiatrists and emergency psychiatrists (acute care
settings)

and trainers/supervisors, including 

*	Residency program supervisors and lecturers, medical student
educators;
*	Case conference and grand rounds organizers; and
*	"Early adaptor" local training organizers and training providers

American Psychiatric Nurses Association: Inpatient psychiatric mental
health nurses 

American Psychological Association: Training directors in clinical,
counseling, and school psychology at APA-accredited doctoral programs 

Council on Social Work Education: Field instructors-practitioners who
are working in the field and serve as supervisors to social work
students 

National Association of Peer Specialists: Working Peer Specialists 

Following their final outlines, which will be completed in September
2011, the professional discipline awardees will develop training
manuals. The training manuals will contain the complete curriculum as
well as the process for pilot testing, marketing, and implementing
recovery-oriented training with their target audiences. A year from now,
the first phase of pilot testing will be underway. 

 Personal Story

 Alice Holstein
Picture<http://www.dsgonline.com/RTP/2011.enews/2011.07.25/images/alice.
136x136.jpg> Tough Grace: Mental Illness as a Spiritual Path. Alice
Holstein was the third annual recipient of the "Shooting Star Award"
from the Mental Health Coalition of Greater La Crosse, Wis. This article
is based on her May 12, 2010, acceptance speech at a reception sponsored
by Don and Roxanne Weber. 

The speech was dedicated to those who were not in attendance, such as
those in our jails, under our bridges, at the Salvation Army, in
psychiatric wards, and in one of the four to five households affected by
mental illness. The war they fight is often unheralded, unclaimed, and
full of sacrifice and pain. We need to honor them and their families for
the heroic deeds they undertake just to live. 

This version of my story is based on one of my deepest passions-how I
have come to view my illness as a spiritual path. Accordingly, the title
is "Tough Grace: Mental Illness as a Spiritual Path." I am taking
advantage of my bully pulpit today to create some understanding about
mental illness by sharing my story of struggle and triumphs. 

Where I'm headed with this subject is to talk first about some of the
lemon parts that went into making lemonade, including some examples of
the losses that we incur as we battle getting well. Then, how I
healed-what transformed me. Finally, three different perspectives on why
this has turned out to be a profound spiritual path. But first, what do
I mean by the word "spiritual?" I believe that everyone must define it
for themselves. To me it means that which guides and supports me, that
which provides meaning and purpose all wrapped up in a reverence for
life. 

My illness has been manic depression, characterized by the high highs of
mania followed by the low lows of depression, with periods of normalcy
in between. I had a tougher time with this illness than many for a
variety of reasons. 

You can see some of the symptoms of the illness in the following list of
"Ain't It Awful" experiences. I had 13 to 14 hospitalizations and
probably 15 manic episodes over 12 years. I can see, in retrospect, 20
years of symptoms starting in the 1980s-12 of them psychotic. My worst
symptom was paranoia; I believed there was a giant drug and vice
conspiracy operating everywhere, so there was nowhere to go for help. I
was argumentative and disruptive. The police picked me up more than
several times. I bought three cars I didn't need and had eight adverse
reactions to various medications. I went on spending sprees that cost
thousands and had back-breaking medical bills. I was guilty of reckless
driving and had three car accidents in one year. Fear drove me to travel
far from home to some 10 states-not exactly the vacations I would have
planned. I created unbelievable messes, fouling my financial affairs,
packing up my house, giving things away and leaving belongings in
various places that then had to be retrieved over long distances. I
intruded on other people's time and property. 

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 Resource Spotlight

30 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Recovery to Practice (RTP) 

The following RTP FAQs and preliminary answers are available through the
RTP Resource Center. To view the complete list of questions and answers,
click here
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reference. 

1.     Do people really recover? And if so, why don't I see them?

2.     Is recovery evidence based?

3.     How is recovery-oriented care different from simply implementing
evidence-based practices?

4.     How is recovery different from psychiatric or psychosocial
rehabilitation?

5.     How does recovery-oriented practice relate to the medical model
or clinical care?

6.     Is the recovery movement anti-professional?

7.     How do you see mental health recovery interfacing with the
substance abuse recovery movement?

8.     How is recovery relevant for inpatient units and/or psychiatric
emergency departments?

9.     How is recovery relevant for a justice-involved client
population?

10.   Is recovery different for people from different cultural
backgrounds?

11.   How is recovery relevant for children and youth? What does
"resilience" mean? What does it mean for practices to be resiliency
oriented?*

12.   How can I instill hope in those I work with? What if people don't
want care, or don't have personal goals?

13.   What role do medications play in recovery?

14.   How can consumers self-direct their treatment and their lives if
they have a mental illness?

15.   Do you really believe that people with serious mental illnesses
should be trusted to make their own decisions?

16.   Why is work an important component of recovery?

17.   Many people living with psychiatric illness are often concerned
about losing their benefits if they return to work. How can you address
these concerns?

18.   What role does trauma play in recovery?

19.   What role does spirituality play in recovery?

20.   What roles do the body and physical well-being play in recovery?

21.   What is peer support?

22.   Who provides peer support?

23.   How/where can you find funding for peer support services?

24.   What are the various roles that people in recovery can play as
service providers?

25.   Should peers work as peer specialists in the same clinic/program
where they receive their own mental health care?

26.   How can program directors take a leadership role in motivating
their staff to become recovery oriented and develop true partnerships
with clients?

27.   How does the relationship between the practitioner and the service
user change in recovery-oriented practice?

28.   How can a practitioner adopt recovery-oriented practices within
the context of a traditional or conventional mental health program or
setting?

29.   What kind of culture change is required to support
recovery-oriented practices?

30.   How are recovery-oriented services funded? Are they supported by
Medicaid and/or Medicare?

 Related Links

The Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network, Inc. is a non-profit
corporation founded in 1991 by consumers of state services for mental
health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases. Their
mission is to "promote recovery through advocacy, education, employment,
empowerment, peer support, and self help, and to unite as one voice to
support the priorities set each year at the annual convention." 
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Since its inception in August 2001, the Turn-A-Frown Around Foundation,
Inc. (TAFA) has brought love and laughter to folks in nursing homes,
psychiatric wards, and partial care programs (mental health day
treatment). They offer a friendly ear to support those in need through
their outreach phone service, "The Unconditional LoveLive," and make
personal visits, phone calls, and email contact with those seeking help.
Their role in the community is to assist people living with psychiatric
and physical disabilities who have lost hope or feel isolated by linking
them with a "forever friend" network. TAFA reaches out to these
individuals to help them attain a sense of hope and well-being through
the affirmation and recognition of caring others. A staggering 50
percent of nursing home residents and 75 percent of mental hospital
patients will die without a friend. TAFA aims to change those statistics
by bringing love, laughter, and a listening ear to the lonely and
isolated in nursing homes, mental hospitals, children's homes, and more.

http://www.turnafrownaround.org
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SAMHSA's 10x10 Wellness Campaign launched its free brochures and posters
for clinicians, community organizations, consumers/survivors, and peers
who want to increase the life expectancy of people with behavioral
health challenges by 10 years over the next 10 years. The new resources
include 

*	Top Three Ways to Promote Wellness poster (SMA10-4569)
*	Eight Dimensions of Wellness poster (SMA10-4568)
*	Informational brochure for primary care providers that provides
strategies for talking about wellness and connecting with patients'
behavioral health care providers (SMA10-4566)
*	Motivational brochure for consumers/survivors/peers that
describes how to incorporate the Eight Dimensions of Wellness into
everyday life (SMA10-4567)
*	Informational brochure to raise awareness about the disparity in
early mortality for people with behavioral health problems and gain
"champions" for the 10x10 Wellness Campaign (SMA10-4565)

These consumer-centered tools establish a shared language for talking
about how wellness can support recovery for individuals with behavioral
health challenges. To order or download the free materials, visit 
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