Recovery-Oriented Organizational Change Initiative

The Recovery-Oriented Organizational Change Initiative (ROOCI) engages five organizations devoted to increasing their recovery orientation through an intensive set of training and technical assistance change activities.  Each organization has an Executive Sponsor and a dedicated Change Team that includes meaningful peer representation.  This project is designed to further recovery orientation, but in a more focused approach and with a much greater level of commitment by the participating organizations than previous learning communities.  There are two main components to ROOCI. In order to facilitate the ROOCI, Via Hope is working in partnership with The University of Texas at Austin Center for Social Work Research and key faculty affiliated with the Yale Program on Recovery and Community Health and The Transformation Center.

It should be noted that sites participating in the ROOCI are intended to learn collaboratively, mentoring one another and other sites as they enter this transformative work. Their perspective, experience and lessons learned are leveraged as Texas continues building transformational momentum.

The first ROOCI component focuses on recovery-oriented organizational change strategy and content. Activities include a one day on-site assessment and consultation with each site and two days of initial on-site training and consultation. The second component of ROOCI is targeted training and technical assistance to support the expanded use of peer specialists. Each month, Change Teams will participate in remote consultation, coaching, and technical assistance aimed at supporting their organizational transformation efforts and leveraging learning across the state. After several months, sites will participate in two more days of on-site refresher training and consultation for agency staff.

This level aims to continue an intensive deepening and expansion of their recovery orientation and use of recovery oriented practices in participating organizations, and is designed to build on progress made during the 2011 RFLC.

The application for the Recovery-Oriented Organizational Change Initiative has been closed for FY2012. To learn more about the Recovery Institute application process, click here.