Self-Assessment/Planning Tool for Implementing Recovery-oriented Mental Health Services (SAPT)

Publication Date: 6/1/2009

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The first phase of the study examined the delivery of these services from the perspective of both staff and consumers. The study examined the transition from traditional day treatment programming, with a focus on consumer monitoring and management, to rehabilitative/recovery-oriented services that focus more on consumer self-direction and community functioning. The second phase of this study examined Florida's system readiness to implement recovery-oriented services in relationship to guidelines, standards and finance structures that are emerging in the mental health field.

These studies describe a period of transition for programs in mental service provider agencies (referred to herein as agencies), where consumers and staff are both defining new roles and responsibilities for delivering recovery-oriented services. The studies also identified a lack of guidelines and service implementation tools that are essential to supporting this transition. In addition, the studies identified the need for a systematic way to ensure that the services described in the AHCA Handbook are being delivered in a manner consistent with recovery principles.