The model shown below for the Recovery Alliance Initiative (RAI) is already happening in part, and other parts are aspirational.
I thought I would share this for everyone’s consideration and ease of access.
The diagram is immediately below. At the bottom of this post I’ve placed the one-page PDF. The front side contains this diagram. The back side contains a small amount of relatively simple explanatory language.
Logic Model
RAI seeks to develop cross-sector Awareness, Collaboration, Advocacy and Action at the community level.
Toward that end, RAI involves world, national, and regional experts in education of stakeholders that attend RAI Summits and Symposia. RAI also involves special experts in consultation with RAI, toward developing RAI’s fulfillment of its vision and mission.
Current projects include Housing, Transportation, Treatment, and Case coordination. Each has its own Task Force. RAI utilizes an Advisory Committee to guide the management of each Task Force. The on-going management, results, and related metrics of each Task Force are all recursive to the Advisory Committee.
Sources
William L. White, MA established Recovery Management (RM) for individuals, Recovery Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC) for community collaboration, and co-authored the Behavioral Health Recovery Management (BHRM) Principles for movement toward evidence-based and promising practices. These have a practical focus and serve as a set of key over-arching principles and practices that inform the intent and focus, as well as vision and mission, of RAI.
Alfgeir Kristjansson, PhD designed a methodology for development and on-going guidance of indigenously-sourced identification of local problems and resources to meet community goals in a sustainable way. His work mainly focuses on primary prevention, but includes secondary and tertiary prevention. In RAI we mainly use his methods for project management of tertiary prevention.
David Best, PhD addresses the establishment of recovery community infrastructure and recovery capital at the community level – among and across various sectors. RAI uses his methodology for the same aims in the local areas where RAI is currently active.
Kurt Lebeck, MSW undertakes empirical research to determine if his content and methods for training peer support workers are effective in helping those receiving that peer support (from the people he trains) at building their own recovery capital. RAI implements his peer support training methods and their related measures.
John Kelly, PhD undertakes empirical research of long-term recovery in the local community as well as mechanisms of change at the level of the individual person. RAI uses his knowledge to inform projectmanagement and implementation by including what to measure and how. In this way RAI helps ensure that projects actually do support evidence-based recovery-related mechanisms of change.
