Information about the Recovery Model

This resource list is provided as a service to the visitors of our website. Inclusion or omission of another website or service from this list does not imply or suggest approval or disapproval of the programs or policies of any given organization by the Family Outreach and Response Program(FOR). FOR does not accept any responsibility for the content of any of the websites listed on our website. FOR does not claim that this is a complete list of all mental health recovery resources on the internet.

Family Resources Guide

This file is a listing of agencies and programs that may be of interest to family members or friends visiting this site.

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Information on Mental Health Recovery - Models, Concepts and Websites

Models
Mental Health Recovery Websites
1. Ohio
  1. www.mhrecovery.com
2. Vermont
  1. Mary Ellen Copeland
  2. Copeland Center
3. Massachusetts
4. New Hampshire
  1. Shery Mead
5. United States
  1. website dedicated to Mental Health Recovery research
  2. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
6. Ontario, Canada
  1. Queen Street Outreach Society
  2. Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division, Family Members Resource Centre
7. Australia
  1. SANE Australia
  2. MindBodyLife

What Helps and What Hinders Report(2002)

Phase One of a USA National Research Project, conducted in nine states to gain knowledge on what helps and what hinders mental health recovery.

Click here to see the report

Information on Recovery Competencies for Mental Health Workers and Service Providers

New Zealand
1. Recovery Competencies for New Zealand Mental Health Workers
2. Like Minds teaching Kit
Massachusetts
1. Advocates Inc. and Patricia E. Deegan
Kansas
1. Kansas School of Social Welfare, strengths perspective
2. Can We Measure Recovery, A Compendium of Recovery and Recovery-Related Instruments
Australia
1. Multicultural Mental Health, see Cultural Awareness Tool in Books and Reports

Where is Recovery Happening Now

United States
1. California
  1. Santa Cruz and Contra Costa Counties
2. Arizona
  1. metaservices.com
3. Kansas
  1. University of Kansas, School of Social Work
4. Wisconsin and Ohio
  1. mh.state.oh.us
5. Vermont
  1. Vermont Recovery Education Project
6. Massachusetts
  1. Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, see Recovery Center
  2. Freedom Center, peer-run free services + advocacy
  3. Institute for the Study of Human Resilience
  4. National Empowerment Center
  5. Windhorse, a recovery treatment center
7. Connecticut
  1. Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health Recovery Institute Training
  2. Proposed model of recovery and recovery-oriented services
Finland
1. Jaakko Seikkula
Italy
1. triestesalutementale.it
United Kingdom
1. mentalhealthrecovery.org.uk
2. tidal-model.co.uk
New Zealand
1. Mental Health Commission, New Zealand
Canada
1. Queen Street Outreach Society

Bibliographies

United States
1. Ruth Ralph Review of Recovery Literature
2. Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness, Anthologies and Criticism by gail Hornstein
Canada
1. Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division, see Bibliography under mental health system

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