Wellness Recovery Resiliency



Wellness Recovery Resiliency - Overview The BHCS Quality Improvement Department offers consultation in “how to” integrate culturally effective wellness practices into the culture and operations of county and contract programs. This webpage offers resources about TOOLS, RESOURCES and CONSULTATION that your program can use to build on its strengths and offer wellness practices that people-in-recovery need to live meaningful lives, guided by their own choices, in their communities. Quality Improvement is about planning and introducing change; finding ways to understand “what’s working;” and making adjustments to sustain new innovation. So, practically speaking, the resources on this webpage will help your behavioral health program or organization build the wellness/recovery knowledge and skills of your providers, consumers and family members. As you think about choosing tools or resources from this webpage please consider… Promoting new learning starting with what is already known and practiced in your program Choosing tools or curricula that are easily applied in daily work: Working with “learning teams” of providers, consumers and family members when choosing new practices Acting on your knowledge about what motivates and inspires your team Being mindful of what will support sustaining new wellness practices Tools We invite you to browse through our resource library to find tools that will help you bring a new practice into your program: Welcoming practices that support wellness and recovery for your providers, family members and consumers Welcoming Toolkit Tools you can use to talk about wellness and recovery with your team, staff, group Motivation Quiz Recovery Knowledge Inventory Wellness Recovery Resiliency Poster – Focused Conversation “Nuts and bolts” about mental health recovery (as defined by adults) Stanislaus County – Eight Milestones of Recovery – Hurley and Carroll What Helps, What Hinders Phase I Report Surveys you can use to find out how your program is experienced by adults Elements of a Recovery Facilitating System 16 FINAL Recovery Enhancing Environment Survey Steps to adopt a Appreciative Inquiry approach to problem solving Appreciative Inquiry Summary Appreciative Inquiry Powerpoint How to support client transition through behavioral health care systems using clinically defined levels of care Milestones of Recovery Dave Pilon How to complete a mission statement with Wellness Center Consumers How to Create a Wellness Center Mission Statement How to set up operations in a consumer managed wellness center Fidelity Assessment Common Ingredients Tool for Self Help Centers MHCAN Santa Cruz Operations Manual Principles and Elements of MHSA-funded Wellness Centers Nuts and bolts on “how to” provide peer support Carter Center 2009 – Pillars of Peer Support (see page 18) Explain the history of self-help and peer support Self Help Powerpoint Zinman 2006 How to build a wellness and recovery oriented program Ragins’ Building MHSA Programs – 15 articles Integrating Wellness Practices in Systems Culture and Operations – Powerpoint RESOURCES: We invite you to browse through our resource library to find websites with insightful and practical tips on a range of wellness topics: About Mental Health Wellness and Recovery SAMHSA’s Strategic Recovery-Support Initiative SAMHSA’s “working definition of recovery” SAMSHA-Funded Technical Assistance Centers (TACs) Peerlink Technical Assistance Center, a project of MHA of Oregon Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center - The Family Cafe National Empowerment Center TAC National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse STAR Center (Support, Technical Assistance and Resources) Wellness Oriented Mental Health Services – Research, Information, Advocacy Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation The Center for Mental Health Services National Mental Health Association Evaluation Center at the Human Services Research Institute Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures, Volume II National Council for Community Behavioral Health Care University of Illinois, Chicago, National Research and Training Center Cultural Responsiveness, Healing and Mental Health How different cultures understand health and healing: Recovery/Empowerment The Icarus Project Independent Living Centers International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology Intervoice Mental Health Recovery MindFreedom International National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse Shared Decision Making in Mental Health Webinar http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/disability/selfemployment.htm https://www.disability.gov/employment/ The Recovery Group Supported Employment https://ipsworks.org/ Supported Education socwel.ku.edu/ https://www.cibhs.org/training-and-services Disability Rights Americans With Disabilities Act Disability Rights Activist Job Accommodation Network http://www.ncd.gov/publications/2000/Jan202000 Trauma-Informed Care Mental Health Peers The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study NCTIC: National Center for Trauma-Informed Care Healing Self-Injury blog Western Massachusetts Training Consortium Help and Healing from Violence Legal Resources Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law National Association for Rights, Protection & Advocacy National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives Protection & Advocacy Agencies PsychRights CONSULTATION: Our goal is to help your program build on its strengths and increase the kinds of services and supports that people-in-recovery need to live meaningful lives, guided by their own choices, in their community. When using organizational change as a lever to improve quality its important to: give your team a clear message about what is expected and engage your team’s motivation and creativity. Call us to get recommendations about the tools and resources you have found on this webpage. We will listen to find out what you want to change; talk with you about your program’s strengths; and support your thought about “next steps” that will make a practical, sustainable difference. CONTACT: Margaret Walkover MPH, Director of Wellness Recovery and Resiliency (510) 383-1781 or mwalkover@acbhcs.org Transition at the Wellness, Recovery & Resiliency Hub View Announcement