Recovery Principles

The Meadows and Universal Community Behavioral Health believes that treatment should be recovery oriented as described in the Recovery Principles:

• People with mental illness and/or addictive disease can and do recover.
• Every person’s journey to recovery is individual and unique.
• Recovery should be defined through the eyes of the consumer rather than the provider.
• Recovery is a process of growth.
• Recovery is not necessarily a smooth transition from one stage to the next.
• Recovery involves changing one’s attitudes, taking on new roles and developing new skills.
• Recovery requires sustaining hope.