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Recovery Coach Training NEW
2012 Recovery Coach trainning schedule now available online.
Each year, thousands of New Yorkers celebrate National Recovery Month during September. Recovery Month promotes the benefits of prevention, treatment and recovery, and celebrates people in Recovery.
The New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) is committed to ensuring that all of it’s services fully recognize and respond to the needs of those in or seeking recovery. We are aware that those needs go beyond treatment and abstinence to the lifelong process of improved health, wellness and quality-of-life, and a reintegration with family and community. To this end, OASAS formed a Bureau of Recovery Services in May, 2007 and embarked upon initiatives designed to develop supports in partnership with people in recovery.
Current NYS Recovery Initiatives:
- The goal of implementing Recovery practices and policies is to develop a Recovery Oriented System of Care (ROSC). Recovery Oriented Systems of Care involves changing from the current approach to recovery which treats addiction as an acute crisis to understanding that recovery is a journey which often requires long-term supports and services.This means a move towards creating a system of care that views addiction as a chronic condition in the same manner that diabetes and other chronic conditions are understood.
- Recovery Coaching is a peer-based recovery service that is non-clinical and designed to engage others beyond recovery initiation through stabilization and into recovery maintenance. Similar peer interventions in clinical settings have been shown to improve engagement and retention of people seeking services. It is also known that long-term treatment outcomes are improved by assertive linkages to community-based recovery supports such as Recovery Coaching.
- OASAS Recovery Projects include the Recovery Implementation Team, the Policy Subcommittee and Health and Wellness.
Recovery Coach Training Schedule Available online. Friends of Recovery New York (FOR-NY) and the New York Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) will be providing the Recovery Coach Academy Trainings and/or Training of Trainers free of charge in the seven regions across the state.