Wow Bill, you must be psychic! Or you are intuitively tied into my brain (and that may or may not be a good thing for you) LOL
Part of my new position as the Peer Support Substance Use Systems Lead & CSI Lead (Consumer Survivour Initiatives Mental Health) for a new Sustaining & Enhancing Peer Initiative of our Mississauga Halton LHIN...is trying to figure out, map and define how paid peer positions affects and potentially changes recovery, how it affects and potentially changes an agency and how it affects and potentially changes systems.
Then the same will be done within the framework of volunteer peer supports and mentoring etc.
This information is very timely for me because I think your question "Recovery and service transition, can we do both?"... helps to define my focus and I think the answer to your question is that we HAVE to find a way to effectively do both at the same time and "Do No Harm" in the process.
Soon, I am going to be putting a call out for any Best Practice, Promising Practice, Evolving Practice, Grey literature...or any type of research/data etc., from Provincial, National and International regarding Peers, Lived Experience, Family engagement and merging into everything and anything that is relevant to the Substance Use/Addiction and/or Mental Health Service Delivery and Outcomes (and any other proven methods of the above that might exist outside the parameters such as Bereavement, Cancer Care etc)
If anybody has good stuff please throw it my way....
Betty-Lou Kristy
Lived Experience/‘Family’ Advocate- Mental Health, Addiction, Trauma & Bereavement
PROVIDING EVIDENCE from community to systems level policy, planning & governance