May 8, 2008

Summary of Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's (CSAT's) Regional Recovery Meetings

The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's (CSAT's) Partners for Recovery Initiative (PFR) conducted five regional recovery meetings between April 2007 and January 2008, to build on the work on recovery-oriented systems of care (ROSCs) initiated at CSAT's National Summit on Recovery. The meetings were designed to achieve several goals including: informing individuals about the National Summit on Recovery; providing resources related to the operationalization of ROSCs; allowing States and organizations to share lessons learned; and providing a venue for individual State team planning. Further, the meetings expanded and continued a dialogue across the country about recovery-oriented system change. This report is a summary of those meetings.