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SAMHSA Announces Working Definition of Recovery

December 29, 2011 – 8:39 pm

The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently announced a new working definition of recovery from mental and substance use disorders. The definition is the product of their year-long collaborative effort with the behavioral health care community and other specialized fields to explain the common, essential experiences of people in recovery.
The new [...]

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8 Mini-Grants Awarded!

April 13, 2011 – 10:23 am

Northern Lakes Community Mental Health (NLCMH) offered mini-grants to help transform the public mental health system to one based on recovery principles by strengthening consumer choice and enhancing personal recovery.
There were two broad priority areas to be addressed with the grants:

Community Membership, Inclusion and Participation – Projects may promote active involvement in the community; and/or [...]

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Mental Health Mini-Grants Announced!

February 1, 2011 – 11:59 am

Northern Lakes CMH is using part of its Michigan Department of Community Health Culture Change to Embrace Recovery block grant to offer mini-grants to help transform the public mental health system to one based on recovery principles by strengthening consumer choice and enhancing personal recovery.
NLCMH is seeking to fund up to 10 grants, at a [...]

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Recovery Policy: Promoting a Recovery-Oriented Service System

August 8, 2009 – 4:32 am

This policy is to formally express the concept of “recovery” as the overarching goal of the service system, for persons with severe mental illness, directly operated or funded by Northern Lakes Community Mental Health (NLCMH).
Recovery shall be the guiding principle and operational framework for our system of care provided by the partnership of public and [...]

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Inaugural Recovery Newsletter Published!

April 22, 2009 – 12:58 pm

Welcome to the first issue of Northern Lakes CMH Recovery Newsletter!
This newsletter will be published quarterly for people interested in Recovery from a mental illness. Each issue will contain tips, inspirational stories, information about different learning opportunities, conferences and classes, personal expressions, and progress reports about improvements to the Northern Lakes CMH system as it [...]

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Highlights of Transformation Accomplishments

November 4, 2008 – 10:51 am

In the last quarter Northern Lakes continued moving forward on transforming the public mental health system to be one more focused on recovery. The highlights are described in this quarter’s Blueprint Summary. Our Blueprint is a living document which is updated quarterly. The latest version was updated 9/25/08.
Some of the highlights include:
The Recovery Council took [...]

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Visible Signs of Change: Houghton Lake Office Transformation Project

June 11, 2008 – 7:57 am

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Latest Blueprint Documents Here

May 19, 2008 – 4:29 pm

On 3/20/08 we completed an in-depth look at our progress in transforming our local public mental health system since last fall. We marked a number of items off as COMPLETED! and pushed back dates on some others. Stepping back and evaluating the concrete things that have happened inspires us to push on because we know [...]

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New Category Added: Recovery Transformation Updates

May 19, 2008 – 4:07 pm

When you want to see updates on Northern Lakes CMH’s recovery transformation process, take a look in the new “Category” called Recovery Transformation Updates. There is a subcategory there as well, called Blueprint Updates. We will collect all our progress reports here!
Categories are a very handy tool to finding things in the Virtual Recovery Center. [...]

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