Allegheny County Coalition for Recovery

Allegheny County Coalition for Recovery Few service providers actually used these principles as a way to think about and organize the services that were being offered.

The mission of ACCR is to increase awareness of behavioral health recovery and to promote the use of recovery principles and practices in behavioral health services in Allegheny County. The Allegheny County Coalition for Recovery was formed in the fall of 2001 as a result of concerns by stakeholders in the county behavioral health system that service providers and persons being served were often u

naware of or did not understand principles of recovery. Most services had been organized in a manner more consistent with a medical model in which persons using services were placed in a passive role with limited participation or collaboration in the treatment planning process. Persons receiving services often felt trapped and as though they had limited choices and limited hope for a fulfilling future. An understanding that people with mental illnesses or substance use disorders can and do recover has been growing in recent years. Despite this recognition by many people involved with behavioral health services, treatment programs have been slow to change. Most professionals have not been trained to deliver care from the perspective of recovery. Against the backdrop of these circumstances, the Coalition for Recovery began its work. The first step was the establishment of three committees. The first, Public Awareness, had the charge of combating stigma in our county, and raising the awareness of service providers, the public, and service users that individuals affected by mental illness and addiction all have the potential to recover. The second committee, Education and Training, was charged with developing educational resources and programs to provide persons receiving services and those providing services with a deeper understanding of recovery principles and the recognition that it is a concept that can be applied by everyone. Developing a toolkit for training service providers was also part of the committee’s work. The third group, Quality Improvement, was given the task of developing guidelines for service systems to use in a transformation to a system that facilitates and encourages the recovery perspective. Along with these guidelines, a set of measurable indicators would be developed to help service providers gage their progress toward achieving the best practices for delivering recovery oriented services.

We were so happy to be invited to the Pittsburgh Riveters SC Mental Health Night on May 23rd! We made connections with p...
05/26/2026

We were so happy to be invited to the Pittsburgh Riveters SC Mental Health Night on May 23rd! We made connections with people, shared our message of hope, and our co-chair, Sheila Marie Rankin, made a new friend, Nellie!

05/26/2026
As frustrating as she can be at times, Princess Daisy has been my lifeline in the past. At my lowest points, she was the...
05/23/2026

As frustrating as she can be at times, Princess Daisy has been my lifeline in the past. At my lowest points, she was there for me, she needed me, and she loved me...even if she also scratched the furniture. To this day, she's always there when I need a minute to decompress.

How have your pets kept you going? How do they contribute to your wellness now?

-Scott Nicolson, ACCR Secretary

05/23/2026

ACCR will be on site for the Pittsburgh Riveters SC Mental Health Night today (May 23)!

05/21/2026

Our "thank you" page for Seeds of Wellness is now live on our website! It includes contact information for all of the organizations that came in case you need it.

If you have any photos from the event to share for the photo gallery (still under construction, sorry!), please send them along!

05/21/2026
Check it out! ACCR co-chairs Sheila Marie Rankin and Brandon Skosnik represented us at NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania's annu...
05/20/2026

Check it out! ACCR co-chairs Sheila Marie Rankin and Brandon Skosnik represented us at NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania's annual Mental Health and Wellness Conference in Harrisburg!

05/17/2026

"If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means, keep moving." -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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