The Learning Collaborative
Reaching Recovery is a national learning collaborative which mental health centers join to share recovery knowledge and experience. Mental health centers around the country are struggling with issues of implementing recovery focused services, evidenced based practice, and meaningful and reliable outcome measurements. The Reaching Recovery Initiative provides a conceptual framework for brining these elements into one process. It provides the centers with the ability to measure best practices as well as develop new practices and enables centers to report meaningful progress of consumers to all stakeholders.
Members of the Reaching Recovery learning collaborative share information using our state-of-the-art technology and psychometric methods. The learning collaborative eliminates the need for each center to conduct the rigorous and intensive work to ensure reliability and validity of instruments, which MHCD has already done. No special software is needed. Data is easily entered into a web-based system where it can be shared and discussed among staff, clinicians, and consumers and even with other recovery oriented partner agencies.
Our learning collaborative partners use the Measures of Recovery to link outcomes to service effectiveness and system transformation. This gives our partners a comprehensive picture and standardize methods for examining effectiveness of services and measuring outcomes as well as demonstrating the value of these services to funding bodies.
Stretch your dollars to serve more people….
Are there more people in your community needing your services?
Denver was able to serve 25% more people without increased funding. The outcome instruments used by Reaching Recovery members, such as the RNL, builds on strengths and graduates people to less intensive services when appropriate.
People recovery and their needs change over time.
“The use of the RNL in Boulder has assisted clients to move forward in their recovery by showing when they are ready for more independence and self-responsibility. This instrument has been critical in enabling our agency to use our resources where they are most effective.” _- Charlotte Wollesen, Director of Community Integreation and Rehabiliation, Boulder Mental Health Center
Move people to wellness….
Know how people recovery and have the ability to measure it.
We help people:
- Feel hopeful,
- Have someone in their lives they can count on,
- Feel safe,
- Direct their own treatment and lives, and
- Manage their illness
“As clinicians, we have historically used anecdotal data to inform clinical practice to promote recovery outcomes from consumers. With Recovery Markers, we now have longitudinal, empirical data to support our clinical judgment and decisions.” - Steven Fisher, MHCD Clinical Program Manager
Know how your staff and services promote recovery….
The measures used by Reaching Recovery partners enables centers to provide services based on real time recovery-focused outcomes.
The Four Measures of Recovery:
- RNL: Assigns correct level of service
- CRM: Consumer rating of recovery
- RMI: Providers rating of recovery
- PRO: Consumers rating of provider
The Four Measures of Recovery provide multidimensional views of recovery. This knowledge empowers staff and consumers at all levels of your center to promote and support recovery.
“I am honored and excited to work for an organization that not only talks about recovery, but operates at every level with that in mind… “ – MHCD staff member
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