The New York Peer Network for Recovery and Resilience (NYPNRR) - The New York Peer Network for Recovery and Resiliency (NYPNRR), a collaboration of Families together in New York State (FTNYS), the National Alliance of Methadone Advocates (NAMA), and the Mental Health Empowerment Project (MHEP) has begun to strengthen the voices of mental health consumers, family members and youth, and individuals in recovery at the state and local level. This partnership has begun to increase access to the quality of behavioral health services and recovery supports that they are empowering, self-directed, recovery- and resiliency-oriented, culturally and linguistically appropriate, and promote an enhanced live in the community for those with behavioral health concerns. The NYPNRR has expanded its collaboration to develop a strategic plan and conduct ongoing needs assessments, share resources, conduct cross-training, and continue to collaborate on major issues of concerns. NYPNRR proposes to maintain a sustainable network that builds on the accomplishments to date to increase knowledge (1) through the family and recovery network about trauma, its impact, trauma-informed practices, and trauma-informed peer support among family networks and recovery-oriented peer-run programs, (2) throughout the peer and recovery network on peer empowerment and engagement, support substance use disorders and mental health recovery, and the four dimensions of recovery, and (3) throughout the networks of the benefit of working with the whole family in all decisions, taking a comprehensive view of the support needs of the child, youth, and family to achieve better outcomes.
