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���������� Note: Registration is nearing 300 for our “Recovery And Rehabilitation: Realizing The Vision, Achieving The Value” conference in Albany next Thursday and Friday. Please see below for program and registration details.

Last week, we highlighted that our program will include an exploration about the future of site based programs within the new behavioral healthcare environment. Here’s a very thoughtful response by longtime clubhouse leader and ���������� public policy leader Ray Schwartz:
“Reducing isolation and developing meaningful relationships are critical elements in mental wellness. The discussions and planning on different approaches to mental health services must keep these two elements as outcomes in any new approach to services. Whether site based services disappear, are significantly changed or become a reduced part of a progressive mix of mental health services, outcomes that measure quality of life, including factors that reduce isolation and increase interpersonal engagement, need to be essential to the planning process.

Is that more expensive than attending a site based service? What outcomes do we measure? Service integration is not community integration and enabling people with a mental health condition to become a natural part of their community is dependent on reducing isolation and developing meaningful relationships.”

Don’t miss next week’s discussions! See below for program details. You can still register at .

CEUs: ���������� Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Inc., (����������) SW CPE is recognized by the ���������� State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0253. All Workshops are SW CEU eligible. We are also approved to offer CEUs for CRCs, CPRPs and CASACs.