CORP Work Plan

  1. Establish a CORP reporting and monitoring system
    • CORP participants share tools, skills and expertise gained trough this project with other agencies
    • Evaluate CORP providers’ ability to use tools, skills and expertise
    • Provide feedback to CORP group

  2. WRAP training provided to CORP project participants
    • Implement/expand use of WRAP and Advance Directives
    • Establish local consumer resources for teaching WRAP to others

  3. Consumer Empowerment
    • Consumers feel they have a voice and it is taken seriously by others
    • Consumers able to advocate for themselves and observe resultant changes in agency

  4. Community collaboration and jobs
    • Agencies develop linkages to promote meaningful job training and employment in the community
    • Agencies develop infrastructure to achieve above task
    • Consumers have increased opportunities to be meaningfully employed and have being taken seriously

  5. Outcome Measurement
    • CORP agencies develop and implement a consumer outcome measurement process.

  6. Recovery Management Planning – electronic integration – RMP implementation support
    • System change shifting service planning from medical model to recovery-focused practices.
    • An integrated information system that supports the move to recovery-focused practices.

  7. Consumer leadership for committees, boards, legislative advocacy.
    • Allegheny County Consumer Leadership Institute or WV Leadership Academy.
    • Recovery Core competencies integrated into agency’s administrative functions.
    • Recovery principles incorporated into agency administrative and supervisory functions.

  8. Education and Engagement of families
    • Acknowledge and value importance of family support in consumer’s life.
    • Encourage family members to become part of consumer’s service/wellness plan.
    • With consumer’s permission, family members provided with information and education about the consumer’s illness, treatment and medications.

  9. Team building skills.
    • Build teams with strengths in communication, leadership, cooperation and trust, coaching, problem solving, decision making and critical thinking.

  10. MISA Recovery
    • Implementation of best practices

  11. Training of psychiatrists
    • Enhance psychiatrist’s role by using recovery practices in the short time they typically spend with consumers

  12. Grant opportunities
    • Agencies develop recovery-related projects and find opportunities for funding them.