The peer-employment-training approach of Recovery Innovations in Arizona

Performance Indicators

Participants reported feeling more empowered after completing the programme and having higher self-worth. As well as improving their own recovery and those they support, Johnson believes that the programme helps the ‘organization/system’ to recover, improving staff attitudes and redesigning organisational protocols. Compared to traditional staff, peers were likely to have higher expectations of those they supported and were less likely to ‘catastrophize or pathologise’ people’s situations (Johnson, 2009a). 

Dr. Catherine Needham provided Governance International with this case study on 9 March 2010.