workforce development

Workforce Development: Consumer Organization Opportunities

Focus newsletter, Latest News, Workforce Development / Jeremy Countryman

The latest edition of The CAFE TA Center’s Focus newsletter examines the roles that consumer organizations can play in shaping the behavioral health workforce. Organizations have a multitude of opportunities to participate in and influence workforce development within the public and private mental health arenas. As the Affordable Care Act is rolled out, organizations will […]

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Watch the July Road to Recovery Program: Ready, Willing, and Able To Work: Employment for People in Recovery

Employment, Latest News / The CAFE TA Center

For individuals in recovery from mental or substance use disorders, employment is often an essential part of the recovery process. Employment increases a person’s self-worth, stabilizes living circumstances, and facilitates integration with the community. Being unemployed is associated with increased rates of mental disorders and with higher rates of substance use disorders and relapse. In

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SAMHSA Releases Consumer-Operated Services Tool Kit

Latest News, SAMHSA news / The CAFE TA Center

SAMHSA has just released the Consumer-Operated Services Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) Kit. This free product provides tools for developing mental health services that are owned and operated by people who have personal experience living with a psychiatric disorder, and offers guidance grounded in evidence-based practices. The entire tool kit is available at no cost through SAMHSA.

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