Welcome to The Center for
Rehabilitation & Recovery (CRR)

The Coalition for Behavioral Health

The CRR maintains a dedicated team of internal trainers and partners with external training consultants to bring training sessions to life. To learn more about the CRR training team, please click here

Our invitation to you

If your mission and values as a psychiatric rehabilitation support provider resonate with connecting people to outlets for healing and resilience, whole health, and inclusive community participation—we heartily invite you to connect with us! Through grant funding from The New York State (NYS) Office of Mental Health (OMH), our team at the CRR collaborates with NYS mental health support providers through training and technical assistance in psychiatric rehabilitation.

At this time, we offer live virtual training through Zoom, which is open to all NYS mental health support providers. We offer free continuing education units (CEUs) for licensed social workers (LMSW/LCSW), licensed mental health counselors (LMHC), and as applicable to each training session, credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse counselors (CASAC).

Driven by the values of equity, psychiatric rehabilitation, and community inclusion, our team provides training to promote healing and to mobilize the re-imagining of systems that would support people’s journey toward taking greater control over their own lives. We strive to uphold the principles that:

• Learning is an open, safe space for everyone

• Interactions appreciate intersectionality, and are anti-oppressive/trauma-responsive

• Individuals have the right to define their lives and be celebrated for their uniqueness and strengths

• Whole health operates at the individual, community, and systemic levels

• We regularly aim to:

  • Embody our shared personal values of transparency, authenticity, and relationship-building in training and beyond

  • Provide presentations that are open to incorporating new information/perspectives and challenge norms, biases, systems, each other, and ourselves

At present, our technical assistance aims to support the mission and vision of Personalized Recovery-Oriented Service (PROS) programs, Home and Community-Based Service (HCBS) providers, and Community-Oriented Recovery Empowerment (CORE) service providers.

Some of our Training offerings

• Psychiatric Rehabilitation

  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation Goal Development

  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skill Practice

  • Group Curriculum for Skill Development

  • Facilitating Skill Development in Groups

  • Applying Skills in the Community

• Community Inclusion & Reconnection

  • The 12 Principles of Community Inclusion

  • Balancing Benefits & Work: Social Security Work Incentives

  • Challenging Bias & Moving Toward Inclusion

  • Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)

  • Supporting Dignity of Risk

• Recovery-Oriented & Humanistic Approaches for
  De-Institutionalization

  • Cultural Humility: Unpacking Implicit Bias & Practicing Self-Awareness

  • Exploring the Values of Recovery-Oriented Practice

  • Person-Centered Recovery Planning & Documentation

  • Trauma-Responsive Practices, Supervision & Leadership

  • Through the Human Lens of Storytelling: The Recovery Journey

  • Holistic and Community Healing Practices

  • Motivational Interviewing

  • Harm Reduction

  • Shared Decision-Making

Supervision & Leadership

• Creating a Path Forward: Team Dynamics & Team Building

• Discussing Institutionalization in Supervision

• Supervisory Skills to Promote Psychological Safety

• Brave Conversations for Meaningful Supervision

• Recognizing Your Team’s Gifts: The Power of Strengths Spotting

• Navigating Compassion Fatigue

• Filling Up Your Cup: The Necessity of Self-Care for Leadership

Spotlight oN PROS Curriculum Champions

This six-session learning collaborative has offered a space for NYC PROS teams to dive deep into PROS group curriculum building from start (brainstorming) to finish (facilitation)! Sessions have been designed to address barriers to group curriculum development, explore the nuances of lesson planning, ensure alignment with PROS service categories, offer tips and tools around group curriculum building, and allow group curriculum champions a chance to pilot their skill-focused group activities in a safe and encouraging virtual community learning space.

To learn more about about PROS Curriculum Champions, please reach out to Natalie Lleras, at nlleras@iuany.org