New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 37B - COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ADULTS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESSES
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 10:37B-1.3 - Wellness and recovery principles

1. As a result of their relationships and connections with a community support services PA, consumers can justifiably expect that they will acquire tools and strategies to self-manage their illness and improve their quality of life;

2. PA staff shall assist and support consumers in identifying and building upon their strengths in order to better address needs, preferences and goals;

3. The community support services PA shall encourage an atmosphere of wellness and recovery, and emphasize individual dignity and respect;

4. As recovery is most often a process, not an event, the PA shall address the needs of consumers over time and across different levels of disability;

5. Recovery principles shall be applied to the full range of residential, engagement, intervention, treatment, rehabilitation, and supportive services that a consumer may need;

6. As a recovery-oriented system, a community support services program shall have the stated goal of sustaining wellness and recovery for the consumers beyond enrollment in the program and shall engage and assist consumer in care in order that they can achieve, where available and appropriate, a degree of stability and recovery over a long period of time in safety;

7. Whenever possible, community support services shall be provided using the consumer's natural supports;

8. Staff shall provide skill-building activities that empower the consumer to achieve an improved sense of mastery over his or her illness and shall assist the consumer in regaining a meaningful, constructive sense of membership in the community; and

9. The community support services program shall incorporate evidence-based practices in the full complement of intervention strategies.