Equipping Behavioral Health Systems & Authorities To Promote Peer Specialist/Peer Recovery Coaching Services

In August 2012, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued the findings of an Expert Panel convened by the Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) Team—a consortium dedicated to promoting wide-scale adoption of recovery-oriented supports, services, and systems for people in recovery from substance use and/or mental health conditions. The meeting focused on the needs of behavioral health systems and authorities as they strive to promote and support peer services, and to strategize innovative responses to those needs. The Panel addressed challenges experience by behavioral health programs in . . .