Dreamcatchers Empowerment Network’s program supports Crestwood’s Four Pillars of Recovery: Hope, Empowerment, Meaningful Roles and Spirituality and strives to empower clients to gain vocational skills and build self-esteem through meaningful roles, while bringing a smile to their faces. Although the program specifics vary slightly by each campus, the core program includes:

Paid Work Experience: Dreamcatchers strives to create employment opportunities based upon each client’s area of interest. Some examples of jobs that Crestwood’s clients participate in include Dietary Aide, Group Co-Facilitator, Housekeeping, Landscaping, Library Assistant, and Office Assistant.

Dreamcatchers offers Vocational Groups for our clients to help them better prepare for getting and keeping a job that includes resume writing, interview skills, money management and work support.

Dreamcatchers also provides our clients with a chance to learn about Interpersonal Skills that will help support them in a work setting such as peer support, social networking within the campus and in the community and overcoming internalized stigma.

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Contributed by: Regina Kaiser, Executive Director, Dreamcatchers Empowerment Network

Who We Are:

Crestwood Recovery Resilience Solutions (CRRS) is a dedicated team of recovery professionals who celebrate and harness our collective lived recovery experience to support and inspire others on their recovery journey. We proudly refer to this lived experience as our most vital credential—ITE, which stands for I'm The Evidence that recovery and resilience are real, as we embody this journey ourselves.

Beyond our personal experiences, our team comprises seasoned professionals with decades of expertise in delivering recovery services, peer support, mentoring, coaching, and facilitating learning across a diverse spectrum of behavioral health services. We extend our support through consultation, training, job placement, and the implementation of recovery and resilience practices within various behavioral health programs and teams. Our work spans acute care locked facilities, crisis and recovery response settings, community care environments—including mobile crisis response—and justice-involved settings.

What We Believe:

• Recovery is the expectation, not the exception.
• Integrating peer support specialists throughout organizations is essential to advancing recovery and optimizing outcomes.
• Genuine peer support within integrated teams enhances recovery results.
• Behavioral health services should empower individuals to lead fulfilling lives as active community contributors.
• Recovery is possible not only for individuals but also for organizations and systems.
• Organizational recovery, like personal recovery, is an ongoing journey.
• Key recovery pathways include hope, personal empowerment, supportive recovery relationships, recovery-oriented culture, and having a fulfilling life with meaning and purpose for individuals, families, behavioral health care settings, and the community.
• Sustainable recovery-oriented practices, inclusive of integrated peer support services, are crucial for maintaining recovery, building resilience, and enhancing long-term outcomes.

What We Do:

Crestwood Recovery Resilience Solutions (CRRS) designs and delivers comprehensive curricula and training programs centered on recovery, resilience, and wellness. Our offerings serve both individuals receiving services and the diverse professionals who support them. All training sessions are live-facilitated by professionals formally trained in adult learning principles, available through in-person and virtual platforms.

We collaborate with organizations and systems to tailor and implement effective recovery and resilience learning strategies. Our flagship peer support training program has been internationally recognized and adopted as the national peer support training program in Singapore. Additionally, we are an approved training provider for California's Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification Training. Our partnerships span state, county, and provider agencies, as well as peer-run and integrated health organizations across the United States.

For more information about CRRS, please contact James Ritchie at james.ritchie@cbhi.net.