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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.
- BluePrints for Life, Community Bridges, Mesa, Arizona
- Connecticut
Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR),
Wethersfield, Connecticut
- Face to Face, Welcome Home Ministries, Oceanside, California
- FreeMind, Pima Prevention Partnership, Tucson, Arizona
- Futuros Saludables, Serving Children and Adolescents in Need, Inc. (SCAN), Laredo, Texas
- Honoring Every Woman’s Right to Safety (HERS), AIDS Service Center of New York City, New York, New York
- Medication Assisted Recovery Services Project (MARS), National Alliance of Methadone Advocates, Inc., Bronx, New York
- Northern Ohio Recovery Association (NORA), Cleveland, Ohio
- Our
Common Welfare, Women in New Recovery, Mesa, Arizona
- Pennsylvania Recovery Organization Achieving Community Together (PRO-ACT)
Bucks County Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (BCCADD), Doylestown, Pennsylvania
- Recovery
Alliance, El Paso, Texas
- Recovery
Consultants of Atlanta (RCA),
Atlanta, Georgia
- SAARA Center for Recovery, SAARA of Virginia, Inc., Virginia
- Shift: A Peer Recovery Network, Multifaith Works, Seattle, Washington
- Sister to Sister, Oklahoma Citizens Advocates for Recovery and Treatment Association (OCARTA), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Syracuse
Recovery Community Service Project, Center
for Community Alternatives, Syracuse,
New York
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RCSP Grant Projects are also connected to many organizations, allies, and resources, inside and
outside the Federal Government, such as:
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Role of Recovery Support Systems in Recovery Oriented Systems of Care – White Paper
Addiction has long been recognized as a chronic disease. However, most treatment for addiction uses acute care interventions rather than a disease management approach. For many people seeking recovery, this has created a revolving door of multiple acute treatment episodes. Under the leadership of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), the substance use disorders treatment field is shifting from an acute care model of treatment to a chronic care approach, known as recovery-oriented systems of care. This paper describes recovery support systems and their role in recovery oriented systems of care.
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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.
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Recovery Month ![link to Recovery Month](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090118174757im_/http://rcsp.samhsa.gov/_images/recovery_month.gif)
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/)
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/)
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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.
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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/)
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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)
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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)
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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).
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