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Live Webinar: Defining recovery: Personal, practical, clinical
June 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Recovery isn’t a one-size-fits-all destination; it’s a deeply personal, non-linear, evolving process. Yet the way we define “recovery” often depends on whose perspective is centered.
How do we retain the broad, “no wrong door” approach to recovery when systems benefit from conformity and precision? How can we maintain a person-centered focus while balancing the needs and expectations of funders, researchers, payers, and policy-makers?
Join Mental Health America for a Regional Policy Council webinar that unpacks the clinical, bureaucratic, and lived-experience definitions of recovery. Together, we will explore how these varied definitions impact access to services, funding, reimbursement, and social perception.
Participants will learn…
- How “recovery” is defined across mental health and substance use systems, and where those definitions overlap or diverge.
- How the inconsistency of definitions between states and systems impacts research, funding, and access to care.
- Common frameworks that individuals with personal experience report as supportive for sustained recovery, including clinical, peer, and community-based approaches.
- How young people explore and express their identities as people in recovery.
