RCSP grant projects are not operating in a vacuum but within a web of relationships. First, and foremost, they are part of SAMHSA-CSAT’s efforts to facilitate recovery and a better life for everyone in the community.

• RCSP Project Web sites

  Numerous RCSP projects have Web sites. Current and former RCSP projects are invited to send their Web site addresses to RCSPinfo@samhsa.gov to be listed on this site.

  Links to RCSP project Web sites:

RCSP Grant Projects are also connected to many organizations, allies, and resources, inside and outside the Federal Government, such as:

• National Summit on Recovery Summit Report

On September 28-29, 2005, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) convened over 100 stakeholders to discuss transformative ideas and concrete recommendations for moving the substance use disorders services field more toward a recovery-oriented approach. At the Summit, leaders in the field identified guiding principles of recovery and elements of recovery-oriented systems of care for people with substance use disorders. This was the first time a broad-based consensus on guiding principles of recovery and elements of recovery-oriented systems of care was achieved on a national level.

• Download .pdf format of the Summit Report
• Download text format of the Summit Report

• Recovery Month

RCSP grantees are active participants in CSAT’s Recovery Month activities. Each September, Recovery Month provides a platform to celebrate people in recovery and those who serve them. Thousands of treatment and recovery programs around the country share their successes with neighbors, friends, and colleagues in an effort to educate the public about addictive disorders as a national health crisis, that addiction is a treatable disease, and that recovery is possible. Recovery Month highlights the benefits of treatment for the affected individual, their family, friends, workplace, and society as a whole. (http://www.recoverymonth.gov/)

• SAMHSA Treatment Locator

The Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator is a searchable directory of drug and alcohol treatment programs from around the country that treat alcoholism and other addictive disorders. The Locator includes more than 11,000 addiction treatment programs, including residential treatment centers, outpatient treatment programs, and hospital inpatient programs for addiction and alcoholism. Listings include treatment programs for marijuana, cocaine, and heroin addiction, as well as drug and alcohol treatment programs for adolescents and adults. (http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/)

• Legal Action Center Paper on RCSP and Federal Confidentiality Laws

An analysis of the applicability of the Federal drug and alcohol confidentiality laws to RCSP peer recovery support services was prepared by the Legal Action Center in November 2005. The paper recommends that each grantee do a self-analysis to determine whether it is covered by 42 C.F.R. Part 2, and identifies key issues and principles to help them do that review.

• Download .pdf format of the legal paper
• Download text format of the legal paper

• Consumer/Survivors Mental Health Information

SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) encourages the meaningful participation of mental health consumers/survivors in all aspects of the mental health system including the planning, design, implementation, policy formulation, and evaluation of mental health services. CMHS sponsors a variety of activities to address the needs of consumers/survivors including regional consumer meetings, programs to address discrimination and stigma and other issues related to mental illness, message development and dissemination of educational materials. (http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/consumersurvivor/)

• Faces and Voices of Recovery

Often those most affected by the disease of addiction are absent from the public policy debate. Faces & Voices of Recovery is a national campaign of individuals and organizations that advocates to end discrimination, broaden social understanding and achieve a just response to addiction as a public health crisis. The aim of the campaign is to increase awareness about the recovery community by improving access to policymakers, researchers, and the media, and to facilitate relationships among local, regional, and national advocacy groups. (http://www.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/main/index.shtml)

• National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence

The National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) fights the stigma of alcoholism drug addiction. Founded in 1944 by Marty Mann, the first woman to find long-term sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous, the NCADD provides education, information, help and hope to the public. It advocates prevention, intervention, and treatment through offices in New York and Washington and a nationwide network of Affiliates. (http://www.ncadd.org)

• Behavioral Health Recovery Management

In many ways, the emergence of peer-to-peer services has been influenced by concepts of recovery management, particularly as espoused by William White, treatment historian and an active supporter of recovery support services. White introduced the concepts of recovery management and drew from researcher William Cloud in promoting the notion of recovery capital—those assets and resources a person brings to the recovery process. His writings are available at the Web site of Behavioral Health Recovery Management, Inc. (www.bhrm.org).