Training providers to support people recovering from and growing beyond a mental health, substance use or trauma-based challenge
725+
practitioners and supervisors enrolled in this Program
120
agencies participating throughout NYS
The New York Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training Academy (NYPRTA) is a three-year Statewide training initiative funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health. The Alliance for Rights and Recovery (The Alliance) in partnership with Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation with support from New York’s leading training and technical assistance providers and partner organizations. NYPRTA provides opportunities for both people who participate in services as well as the practitioners and agency leadership that support them. People who participate in psychiatric rehabilitation services benefit from training through improved outcomes and satisfaction with services. The people who support them benefit by increasing knowledge and skills in providing psychiatric rehabilitation services, which leads to improved job satisfaction and workforce retention.
What is Psychiatric Rehabilitation?
Recovery-oriented psychiatric rehabilitation is both a philosophy and recovery process where people choose, get and keep a personally meaningful role in communities of their choice. The approach centers around the individual and their quest for success and satisfaction. Psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners support people to identify personal needs and priorities, identify and gather resources and build necessary skills that support advancement to a self-determined goal. Each person who participates in psychiatric rehabilitation expands their skills through education and resource collection, developing support strategies for personal recovery.
About the Training
NYPRTA offers training for individual practitioners, supervisors and agency leadership that supports improved outcomes for the people who participate in psychiatric rehabilitation services. Our training is a hybrid approach that incorporates webinars, virtual office hours, self-paced learning modules, in-person trainings and virtual communities of practice. There are three phases of practitioner training: knowledge dissemination, skill acquisition, and skill development. Each phase of training is accompanied by agency-specific consultation that supports optimal training experience and integration to practice. Supervisory training consists of virtual training by Boston University staff through webinars, learning modules and individual supervisory feedback designed to improve a person’s skills at providing psychiatric rehabilitation supervision. Support is also tailored to agency leadership to support program sustainability long after the learner completes the training.
Our training offers practitioners an opportunity to accrue training hours that lead to certification through the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (PRA) for the Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP) credential, which is recognized nationally. People who participate in at least 45 hours of NYPRTA training are eligible for a scholarship that consists of a test readiness course, practice exam, and the cost of the CPRP exam itself. Visit our website for more information.
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Contact
Daniella Labate Covelli
Director of Rehabilitation and Recovery Services
daniellal@rightsandrecovery.org
347-343-1921