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Self-directed recovery

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Self-Directed Recovery

These Suite products promote self-directed recovery in programs and in one's own life.
Building Financial Wellness
This curriculum imparts valuable knowledge and skills that people need to better manage their personal finances. It includes a 139-page instructor guide and an accompanying 56-page participant workbook. 
This Is Your Life: Creating A Self-Directed Life Plan
This 49-page workbook guides users through a structured life planning process using evidence-based motivational interviewing techniques, the stages of change model, and goal-based planning. It has been incorporated into psychosocial rehabilitation agency intake procedures, high school special education classes, and programs for transition-age youth.
Express Yourself: Assessing Self-Determination in Your Life
This 9-page assessment walks users through a process to determine areas in their lives where they lack self-determination and provides next steps for increasing self-determination in that area. Access to the Internet is needed to view recommendations for increasing self-determination in each of the life areas.​
Raising Difficult Issues with Your Service Provider
This 14-page user-friendly booklet helps people constructively express their viewpoints and wishes in treatment situations in order to build more productive therapeutic relationships. ​
Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery (based on WRAP) 
This workbook contains information, ideas, and strategies that help people manage or avoid mental health symptoms and troubling feelings. It was designed for use in conjunction with different types of mental health and health care. ​
Seeking Supported Employment
This 22-page booklet helps users apply a structured process to assess whether a vocational program offers the services and supports that comprise evidence-based supported employment. ​
Guidebook on Assessing Cultural Competency in Peer-Run and Community Mental Health Programs
This 32-page workbook helps peer-run programs and community mental health agencies explore and enhance their cultural competency. It includes an assessment process, followed by creation of a Diversity Action Plan to better serve a variety of cultures in the surrounding community. ​
Self-Directed Care Implementation Manual: A Comprehensive Mental Health Program Guide
This step-by-step guide describes how to design and implement self-directed mental health care in local community settings. It details the structure, policies, and outcomes of a program model that has been rigorously evaluated and shown to produce superior outcomes at equivalent costs when compared to traditional care. ​
Please note!
​People in mental health recovery, their family members, and service providers are welcome to reproduce our products for their personal and/or programmatic use. However, no part of any of the products may be reproduced, adapted, or modified for commercial, research, or educational purposes, or for publication (including self-publication), without written permission from the UIC Center.  

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