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CONSUMER ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The Consumer Advisory Committee focuses on a model in which
client choices are informed, their input is valued, multiple pathways
to recovery are honored, and addiction is treated as a chronic primary
disease. Consumer Advisory Committee members have been playing a critical
role in fostering recovering persons, family members and other stakeholder
involvement in the development and transformation to a client-centered
and recovery oriented system of addiction care.
On May 19, 2007 a group of peers participated
in a Client-Centered, Recovery-Oriented Forum to discuss how to address increasing
involvement by clients and the recovery community in new ways of thinking and
approaching addiction treatment and recovery support services.
Dialogue from the ‘Forum’ is being used to continue the discussion through the
establishment of an ongoing Consumer Advisory Committee to help assist New Jersey
addiction providers with transitioning to a client-centered, recovery-oriented
system of care.
Over the past year Consumer Advisory Committee members have reviewed
the Forum’s
progress report and have prepared to prioritize findings, develop recommendations,
and create an agenda for implementation. Friends has been facilitating Consumer
Advisory Committee members to organize in a way that fully empowers them to take
ownership of the process and the recommendations resulting from the process through
the election of leadership and establishment of advisory committee protocols.
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