Description
May 28, June 4, 11, & 18, 2025 | 9:30-11:30am | Virtual via Zoom
Description:
This 4-session interactive webinar series will provide “nuts-and-bolts” practical guidance for how to maintain a strengths-based recovery orientation within a comprehensive Recovery Plan which simultaneously meets rigorous documentation standards. The training will include a review of key indicators of best-practice recovery planning from both a process and a documentation perspective. A mix of didactic and practice-based strategies will be used to enhance participants’ understanding of core documentation elements within the Recovery Plan, e.g., goals, objectives, strengths/assessed needs, and interventions). Participants will have an opportunity to work in small groups and write a sample Recovery Plan based on hypothetical material which will be shared with participants. A concluding session, consolidates learning and introduces participants to a simple Quality Indicators tools and allows them to build skills by applying it to critique and rewrite a sample plan. As a means on supplementing learning developed within the training, participants will also be provided with several “take home” practice-based tools which will support their ongoing efforts to implement best-practice recovery planning, e.g., a completed sample Recovery Plan and Recovery Roadmap quality indicators tools re: PCRP process and documentation.
Objectives:
• Define Person-Centered Recovery Planning (PCRP) and its essential elements
• Increase familiarity with existing and emerging state and federal requirements regarding PCRP
• Gain knowledge of differences in individualized planning based on cultural factors/preferences
• Describe enhanced features of a person-centered assessment
• Identify a minimum of 3 differences between traditional methods of treatment plan documentation and best-practice Person-Centered Recovery Planning documentation.
• Learn strategies for respecting strengths-based, person-centered principles while also satisfying expectations associated with accreditation and fiscal regulations, e.g., those associated with medical necessity criteria and/or funder documentation standards.
• Identify the key “Ws” of a well-written intervention statement
• Describe at least 2 PCRP implementation concerns and new ways of thinking about them
• Identify 3 common quality flaws in the documentation of Person-Centered Recovery Planning
• Verbalize responses for staff around the “Top Ten Concerns” in Person-Centered Recovery Planning
• Increase skills in critically reviewing recovery plan documentation through practice with an established PCRP Quality Indicators review tool
Presenter:
Janis Tondora, Psy.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. Her work involves supporting the implementation of person-centered practices that help people with behavioral health concerns and other disabilities to get more control over decisions about their services so they can live a good life as they define it. She has provided training and consultation to over 25 states seeking to implement Person-Centered Recovery Planning and has shared her work with the field in dozens of publications, including her 2014 book, Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health: A Practical Guide to Person-Centered Planning. Janis’ consultation and publications have been widely used by both public and private service systems to advance the implementation of recovery-oriented practices in the U.S. and abroad. She is a life-long resident of Connecticut where she lives with her husband and beloved labradoodles after recently becoming an empty-nester with two young adult children.
Contact hours:
8 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals
8 category I contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
8 contact hours for Alcohol and Drug Counselors pending approval from the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors.
8 contact hours for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc
