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In the winter of 2002, New York State
Office of Mental Health (NYS OMH) began to work in partnership
with people who use or have used mental health services to
infuse their perspective into their evidence based practices
initiative. At that time, a widespread Evidence-Based Practices
(EBP’s) awareness building campaign got underway.
This campaign offered education on the national
EBP’s trend and focused on NYS’s priority set
of EBP’s, which included self-help and empowerment.
The goal of this campaign was not only to educate people on
this issue, but also to seek out input and guidance that would
answer the question, “How can NYS OMH infuse recovery-based
principles into Evidence-Based Practices?” As the campaign
moved forward, over 6,000 people participated in consensus-building
dialogues that would create and refine this white paper. In
addition to these dialogues, an EBP’s and recovery consumer/survivor
steering committee was convened and the involvement of people
who are current and former users of mental health services
was infused into many of NYS OMH’s internal workgroups.
Learn more about the work of New York by
accessing the complete article, Infusing
Recovery-Based Principles Into Mental Health Services
or join co-author, Steve Miccio, in Omaha September 25, 2006.
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