Below is a document I've prepared at the request of the Recovery Alliance Initiative (RAI) leadership. It outlines some basic information that will be helpful for community-based leaders to better see the big picture of the RAI model, as it applies to helping the individual. Recovery Alliance Initiative:  Proposed Principles and Stages of Care Principle … Continue reading Recovery Alliance Initiative: Proposed Principles and Stages of Care

So far in this series I've... covered the origin and early evolution of the Recovery Alliance Initiative; provided a description of the expansion and clarification of our model and methods; outlined a recipe we uncovered of general similarities among effective sectors; and shared a variety of our concrete practical perspectives. In the previous post I … Continue reading The Recovery Alliance Initiative – System Change

Earlier in this series I covered the origin and early evolution of the Recovery Alliance Initiative, provided a description of the expansion and clarification of our model and methods, and outlined a recipe we uncovered of general similarities among effective sectors.  I also described a stretch-goal for our field: attempting from the very start with … Continue reading The Recovery Alliance Initiative – Practical Perspectives

In the first two posts of this series, I initially described the origin and early evolution of what we call the Recovery Alliance Initiative.  Those posts were followed by one that described the expansion and clarification of our model and methods within the Alliance effort. In this post I’ll describe a by-product of our effort … Continue reading The Recovery Alliance Initiative – A Recipe We Uncovered

In the first two posts of this series, I described the origin and then the early evolution of what we call the Recovery Alliance Initiative.  I encourage you to go back and read those installments before you read this one on the expansion and clarification of our model and methods.  Through our many conversations and … Continue reading The Recovery Alliance Initiative – Expansion and Clarification

In the first post in this series, I described concepts connected to the origin and early formation of the Recovery Advocacy Alliance. For the sake of continuity and understanding, I encourage you to go back and read that post if you haven’t done that yet.  This is the second post in the series.  In this … Continue reading The Recovery Alliance Initiative – Evolution

This is the first post in a series within which I will provide an overview and history of the Recovery Alliance Initiative.  Here’s the Alliance website in case you would like to check that out. The Recovery Alliance Initiative began as an idea in 2013.  What started as an idea developed into a structured method … Continue reading The Recovery Alliance Initiative