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Recovery:
- Is a reality
- Is person-driven
- Occurs via many pathways
- Is holistic
- Is supported by peers and allies
- Is supported through relationships and social networks
- Is culturally based and influenced
- Is supported by addressing trauma
- Involves individual, family and community strengths and responsibility
- Is based on respect
- Emerges from hope and gratitude
- Exists on a continuum of improved health and wellness
- Involves a process of healing and redefinition for self and family
- Involves addressing discrimination and transcending shame and stigma
- Involves a personal recognition of the need for change and transformation.
Resiliency:- Resiliency is an innate capacity, that when facilitated and nurtured, empowers people to successfully meet life's challenges with a sense of self-determination, mastery and hope.
- Resiliency is a belief that all people have strengths and are capable of overcoming challenges.
- Everyone has the right to hope and success, starting at birth and lasting a lifetime.
- People are recognized and acknowledged as experts in their own experiences.
- A resiliency-oriented approach is sensitive to culture, community and values of the individual.