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NEW!
People can and do recover from drug and alcohol addiction and/or mental illness. ACCR’s new booklet, Hope and Change: Imagine the Possibilities, identifies key aspects in the recovery journey that give each of us the power to make changes in our lives. Check it out and let us know what you think.
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Keystones for Collaboration and Leadership: Issues and Recommendations for Transforming Community Psychiatry. A report on the discussions held in March, 2006 with a broad array of consumers, providers and family members.
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NEW!
The Emerging Leadership Institute is a series of workshops intended to give individuals recovering from mental illness and addiction the skills they will need to make the leap from being a leader in their own recovery to being a leader in the recovery community and supporter of their peers. Each training is limited to 20 people and you must reserve your space in advance. For more information about the training and for an application form, click on the following links:
Announcement
Enrollment Application
Background
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Our Vision
Every Allegheny County resident with a mental
health and/or substance use disorder is supported in his/her recovery journey by
friends, families, communities and service providers who understand and practice
recovery principles.
Our Mission
The mission of ACCR is to increase awareness of
behavioral health recovery and to promote the use of recovery principles and
practices in behavioral health services in Allegheny County.
New Documents
The following documents were developed by ACCR. Please take a moment to review any of them and provide comments at the ACCR Blog Site.
Advocacy
Check out this list of all the newly elected officials and their contact information. If you don’t know who represents your district in Washington D.C. or Harrisburg, you can link to congress.org , enter your zip code into the search window and find out!
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