Centre for Mental Health

Implementing Recovery - a US perspective

In September 2009, Gene Johnson, President of Recovery Innovations in Arizona, delivered a lecture on recovery from the US perspective.

The lecture is divided up into sections and the videos are available below.

Jed Boardman on recovery - the context of the lecture

Part 1: What is recovery?

Part 2: Recovery beliefs

Part 3: Peer to peer support

Part 4: Training peers

Part 5: Housing, hospitalisation

Responses by a Service User and a Manager

Jeanette Harding and Steve Shrubb

Closing remarks, mistakes and expectations

Geoff Shepherd, Senior Policy Adviser at the Centre