The recovery vision as a service improvement guide for Community Mental Health Center providers

Many mental health consumers are calling for Community Mental Health Center services to focus on creating opportunities for recovery. First person acc ounts of recovery portray a process which entails developing hope, taking p ersonal responsibility for health, and building a broad sense of self that is not illness-dominated. Community Mental Health Centers can facilitate re covery by enhancing their clinicians' abilities to (1) communicate hope, (2 ) teach the skills and knowledge consumers need to effectively manage their health concerns, and (3) support consumers' efforts to get on with life be yond illness.