Supporting organizations to embrace a culture that activates individual’s right to choose employment for their own recovery.
Our We Can Work Campaiagn
The Alliance, with the assistance of OMH, produced an Employment and Economic Self-Sufficiency Tool Kit. The Tool Kit provides comprehensive curriculum and resources that help people in recovery move towards employment and greater self-sufficiency.
The Alliance for Rights and Recovery has a long history of working with states and organizations to support the cultural shift that is essential if we are to support people moving from lives where one’s illness defines their identity to a life where they thrive through employment, economic self-sufficiency and all that comes with it—family, housing, and most importantly, a life beyond poverty.
The Alliance for Rights and Recovery fully supports the adoption of Individual Placement & Support (IPS) strategies into all Supported Employment programs and mental health systems across the country and has even helped to do so in such states as Utah, Wisconsin, and Colorado. Grounded in a belief that the work for organizations starts much earlier than when a person enters an employment program, the Alliance for Rights and Recovery helps states and organizations transform their culture to one where individuals say “yes” to employment.
Program Partners
Our program partners include the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, The Cornell University Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, SAMHSA’s Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center (BRSS TACS), and the Northeast & Caribbean Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC). Additionally, The Alliance for Rights and Recovery works with hundreds of individual organizations across the nation to help them increase their capacity to optimize employment.
Our Expertise
Our staff appears as keynote speakers and workshop leaders for conferences across the country, including The North American Housing Conference, California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies (CASRA), Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey (CSPNJ) and The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery Alternatives Conference.