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Center on Adherence and Self-Determination Announces New Publication
“The Center on Adherence and Self-Determination (CASD) investigates the concept of ‘service engagement’ as an alternative to ‘compliance’ or ‘adherence,’ asking what influences the individual’s choice to engage with or disengage from services. CASD’s third Research & Practice Brief (R&PB) – ‘From Compliance to Adherence to Service Engagement’– summarizes CASD’s research into succinct statements that might be used by advocates, policy makers, and other interested parties to promote self-determination with regard to service engagement. R&PB No. 3 offers a discussion of the use of the terms ‘compliance,’ ‘adherence,’ and ‘service engagement’ as they relate to the concepts of choice and self-determination, and the need for models to understand decision-making processes, both rational and socially based, for service engagement.”
Source: http://www.adherenceandselfdetermination.org/
Joy in Advocacy Award 2011
Nominations are being accepted for the 2011 Judi Chamberlin Joy in Advocacy Award
The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR) honors one individual a year with the Judi Chamberlin Joy in Advocacy Award. This award recognizes Judi’s lifetime of joyful dedication to bringing hope into the lives of individuals labeled with mental illnesses around the world. The award honors an individual who best reflects Judi’s example in extraordinary achievements in disability rights advocacy. It will be presented at the NCMHR’s annual open meeting which will take place on October 27, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Read Judi's article "Confessions of a Non-Compliant Patient"
Recovery Summer and the Recovery Policy
The Recovery Movement in Michigan continues to grow, expand, and develop. Most recently, the Recovery Policy developed by the Michigan Recovery Council has been made a part of the fiscal year 2012 Mental Health Services contracts, so that it can begin to impact mental health supports and services across the board.
The next Recovery Council meeting is Friday, July 15, 2011 from 9:30 am to 2:30 am at the Lansing Community College West Campus Facility, 5708 Cornerstone Drive, Lansing. The meetings are open and you can find out more about the Michigan Recovery Council at http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2941_4868_41749---,00.html
Recovery 101
The Recovery Movement is a national phenomenon, but nowhere has it taken off as it has in Michigan.
Recovery is the way people with severe mental illness support each other to manage their symptoms and make their personal dreams real.
Recovery is, in the first place, the recovery of hope, something we all expect to have as part of our lives.
Second, recovery is about helping each other along this journey. In Michigan, a cadre of 800 trained Certified Peer Support Specialists are acting as hubs for this mutual support, working inside the mental health system to bring the system changing impact of recovery to the hundreds of thousands Michigan citizens with mental illness.
Third, recovery is about making each of our lives new, the way we want, through cooperative endeavors like WRAP, drop in centers, PATH and other peer run support systems.
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Recovery is possible for everyone, and by everyone. You can start today!