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Sustainability Supports are follow-up technical assistance activities devised to help programs to continue their efforts to improve integrated care for co-occurring conditions. In general, CEIC services comprise a sequential series of events and exchanges, one leading to the next. Following a Building Capability Forum, CEIC offers other follow-up activities to help programs continue to advance their services to “Dual Diagnosis Capable” or “Dual Diagnosis Enhanced,” using Building Recovery Workshops (“Building Integrated, Recovery-Oriented Outpatient Services”), which encourage person-centered, recovery-oriented, and culturally competent enhancements, Learning Collaboratives (cohorts of programs that work together collaboratively, with guidance from CEIC, to continue to build their co-occurring capability), and other Technical Assistance (consultations that respond to specific requests and that concentrate on the individual needs of an agency/program or a group of agencies/programs).

Sustainability Supports

Building Recovery Workshops are organized after a Building Capability Forum, and offered to the program cohorts (or collaboratives) that were formed at the conclusion of the Forum. These workshops, titled “Building Integrated, Recovery-Oriented Outpatient Services,” help programs to incorporate specific culturally competent, person-centered, recovery-oriented perspectives into all aspects of services and their delivery. Conducted in partnership with the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS), the Building Recovery Workshops cover the range of program services, from program design and culture, through screening and assessment, to treatment planning, staffing, training, clinical supervision, and continuous quality improvement. This follow-up workshop helps interested agencies to continue to build their co-occurring capability, and to forge long-term collaborative relationships with other service providers in their area that will serve to sustain gains in co-occurring capability over time.

“Cohorts” or “Collaboratives” (also known as “Learning Collaboratives,” although the use of this once popular term is becoming increasingly infrequent) are formed at the conclusion of each Building Capability Forum to advance peer learning and collaboration. The Collaboratives are comprised of those provider agency representatives who want to continue to work together, with on- and off-site technical assistance support from CEIC, to improve their agency’s co-occurring capability. Technical Assistance from CEIC continues to be available as needed (at no cost to the provider), and can be delivered on- or off-site. Please refer to the Technical Assistance section for additional information and to request CEIC technical assistance.

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sample Building Recovery Workshop (Held in Long Island)– “Building Integrated, Recovery-Oriented Clinics”

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