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.

Want to learn more? Check out:

• Michigan Recovery Center of Excellence
• Michigan Recovery Council
• Personal Action Toward Health (PATH)

Recovery is possible for everyone, and by everyone. You can start today!