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In June 2012 Dr. Richard Warner will be the keynote speaker for the Asia Pacific Conference on Mental Health in Perth, Western Australia.

Dr. Warner will speak on "Recovery, Work and Empowerment." He will argue that we may be optimistic about outcome from schizophrenia as a substantial proportion of people with the illness recover and regain good mental and functional abilities. Providing work and empowerment opportunities helps this process of recovery. He will also give a workshop on the diversion of offenders with mental health and substance abuse problems from jail into community treatment.


Dr. Warner will chair a symposium entitled "Keeping People with Mental Illness out of Jail and Prison" at the World Psychiatric Association International Congress in Prague, Czech Republic in October 2012. Speakers in the symposium include Chief Boulder County Court Judge Roxanne Bailin who will present information about the Boulder Integrated Treatment Court. The Court greatly reduces jail admissions for offenders with mental illness and substance abuse problems by creating a team of mental health service providers and criminal justice personnel, working together, and providing material rewards to those offenders who successfully comply with the court-ordered treatment and sobriety requirements.


In November, Dr. Warner will address the annual meeting of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Texas on the subject of recovery from schizophrenia. The conference will be held in Austin on November 2 and 3. The Colorado Recovery booth at the meeting will be staffed by Maureen Makar-Olson, M.S.W.


The May, 2012, issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry will carry a book review by Dr. Warner of "Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man: The Early Writings of R.D. Laing, 1927-1960," by Allan Beveridge. The February issue of the same journal carried a review by Dr. Warner of "Classics of Community Psychiatry: Fifty years of Public Mental Health outside the Hospital". The book is a compendium of classic articles that have had a major impact on American community psychiatry.

 

 

What’s Happening at Colorado Recovery

 

Patient and Family Forum

Updated on May 1, 2012
In February, 2012, Colorado Recovery, in conjunction with the Recovery Trust, launched a free, secure, facilitated online forum for our clients with serious mental illness and their close family members. Participants in the forum receive support and education about serious mental illness and its management and have the opportunity to discuss issues with others with guidance from trained moderators. Once enrolled, you can join the discussion group at any time of the day and contribute to any topic that interests you. You can also join the online book group and read and discuss books that provide sensitive accounts of mental illness.

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The Recovery Trust

Updated on May 1, 2012
The Recovery Trust, a nonprofit entity, was recently launched in Colorado. Contributions to the Recovery Trust will provide education and support to people with serious mental illness and their family members and will expand vocational opportunities for people with psychiatric disability. Projects of the Trust will include an online forum for education and support for those with, or close to someone with, major mental illness, and the development of social firms to provide employment for people with serious mental illness. A social firm is an entity with a dual mission -- to provide a useful product or service, often with a benefit to the larger community, and to employ people with disabilities.


Employee-owned Enterprise

Updated on May 1, 2012
Colorado Recovery is on a path to becoming an employee-owned enterprise over the next few years. The first step took place on January 1, 2012, when Colorado Recovery switched from being an LLC (limited liability company) to an S Corporation that issues shares and has a governing board elected by the shareholders. Over half of the board members are Colorado Recovery employees.


Social and Vocational Center

In January, 2012, Colorado Recovery launched a social and vocational center for our clients. Using a novel approach, we hired two community organizers, Deme Yuan, M.S.W and Missy Holoubek, M.S.W, rather than mental health professionals to help our clients build their own program. The clubhouse offers social activities, classes and vocational opportunities. Several clients have become leaders in the program, running classes in cooking and yoga, for example, and leading hiking groups. The clubhouse members have named the clubhouse the "Treehouse" and refer to themselves as "fellows."


 

Stories in the News

 

September 2, 2011

Families Can Help Each Other Cope with Major Mental Illness, Research Shows
One in four families in the United States is touched by major mental illness, and the experience can often be stressful and isolating for families struggling to cope.
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October 27, 2011

Web-Based Education Helps People with Schizophrenia and Their Families
A Website specifically designed to help people with schizophrenia and their friends and families can increase knowledge of the disease and helps reduce symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions...
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