The Alliance for Rights and Recovery is pleased to share this exciting opportunity for organizations and teams interested in strengthening the meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in mental health services, program implementation, and systems change.
Too often, people with lived experience are asked to share their stories but are not meaningfully involved in shaping decisions, designing programs, evaluating outcomes, or guiding implementation efforts. This Learning Collaborative, hosted by The Northeast Atlantic and Caribbean Hub of the Center for Mental Health Implementation Support, is designed to help organizations move beyond consultation and toward authentic partnership by incorporating the voices and expertise of people with lived experience throughout their work.
Participants will receive training, coaching, and practical tools focused on lived experience engagement, including strategies for building user-led implementation councils, improving accessibility, strengthening outreach and trust, and developing sustainable approaches to community engagement. The collaborative is specifically designed for organizations with active implementation projects that want to create more inclusive, recovery-oriented, and person-centered systems.
The Alliance strongly encourages interested organizations, peer-run programs, behavioral health providers, and community-based initiatives to apply. Opportunities like this help advance one of the core principles of recovery-oriented systems: that people with lived experience should be partners in designing, implementing, and evaluating the services and supports that affect their lives!
Applications are due June 15, 2026, and selected participants will take part in a series of learning and coaching sessions beginning in July.
