Dreamcatchers Empowerment Network’s program supports Crestwood’s Four Pillars of Recovery: Hope, Empowerment, Meaningful Roles and Spirituality and strives to empower clients to gain vocational skills and build self-esteem through meaningful roles, while bringing a smile to their faces. Although the program specifics vary slightly by each campus, the core program includes:

Paid Work Experience: Dreamcatchers strives to create employment opportunities based upon each client’s area of interest. Some examples of jobs that Crestwood’s clients participate in include Dietary Aide, Group Co-Facilitator, Housekeeping, Landscaping, Library Assistant, and Office Assistant.

Dreamcatchers offers Vocational Groups for our clients to help them better prepare for getting and keeping a job that includes resume writing, interview skills, money management and work support.

Dreamcatchers also provides our clients with a chance to learn about Interpersonal Skills that will help support them in a work setting such as peer support, social networking within the campus and in the community and overcoming internalized stigma.

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Contributed by: Regina Kaiser, Executive Director, Dreamcatchers Empowerment Network

Who We Are:

CRRS is a department of people who have a combined lived recovery experience of 450 years. We call this credential of “having been there” our ITE, i.e., “I’m The Evidence that recovery and resilience are real! We are also a group of professionals who have a combined working experience of 300 years of serving, mentoring, coaching, and training people who receive behavioral health services; practitioner staff who do the serving; and behavioral and/or integrated health organizations and systems that deliver those services.

What We Believe:

• Recovery is the expectation, not the exception.
• The fundamental way to move recovery forward and optimize recovery outcomes is to employ peer support specialists throughout an organization.
• When peer support specialists contribute genuine peer support services within an integrated team, then recovery outcomes will be optimized.
• Behavioral health services are not merely treating mental health issues and/or addiction challenges but is mostly about supporting and empowering people to live happy, healthy, and meaningful lives as contributors in their communities.
• Not only can people recover, but also organizations and systems can recover.
• Just as is often true about personal recovery, organizational recovery is an ongoing process.
• Hope, personal power, recovery relationships, recovery culture, and meaning and purpose are fundamental paths for both personal and organizational recovery.
• Sustainability practices keep recovery alive and build resilience while strengthening continued recovery outcomes.

What We Do: We develop and deliver recovery, resilience, and wellness-oriented curricula and training programs to a wide audience of people who receive services, as well as to all the various staff who provide services. Our training programs are delivered in multiple formats, including onsite classroom, interactive Zoom classroom, as well as hybrid and recorded online formats.

We consult with organizations and systems to support them in optimizing recovery and resilience learning strategies. We provide an internationally recognized, nationally certified, and competency-based peer support training program. Our peer support training program has also been adopted as the national peer support training program in Singapore. We collaborate with federal, state, and county partners, including various peer run organizations and integrated health organizations in the United States.

For more information on CRRS, please contact Chris Martin at employeecenter@cbhi.net.