2024 DMH Awards
Paradise Ballroom ABC
The Department of Mental Health, Division of Behavioral Health, is recognizing three Outstanding Performers for Housing, Supported Employment, and Recovery Support Services. These awards go to agencies that exemplify the DMH Mission of serving, empowering, and supporting Missourians to live their best lives.
Landmark Recovery Center prioritizes reaching people where they are at and providing support to build their recovery capital for long term recovery success. They distribute NARCAN; visit local shelters; provide transportation; offer numerous support groups and individualized peer coaching services; and offer various pro-social activities such as art classes, sporting tournaments, float trips and barbecues. Many of the services provided are designed to provide support to the entire family.
Landmark Recovery Center has been successful in creating numerous partnerships to better serve and unite the local recovery community. The partnerships include Probation & Parole Officers using their RCC space to connect clients to their services; the local Cole County Jail Pretrial Services utilizing staff for release resources and connections to treatment; collaboration with local treatment providers; a strong partnership with National Alliance for Mental Illness; weekly attendance at local municipal court; attending resource fairs at local prisons; and creating a Recovery Week with the local Treatment Court team. Additionally, Landmark has contracts in place to provide peer services for the Callaway County Drug Treatment Court and family services for the Callaway Family Court. Landmark has founded the Capital City Recovery Coalition where community partners meet every other month to discuss community issues and is working towards becoming an official chapter of the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers.
This year’s Outstanding Performer for Supported Employment Award goes to Burrell Behavioral Health – Springfield.
Burrell Springfield has been an Individual Placement and Support provider for over six years. They have consistently scored in the highest range of fidelity, which is the exemplary range. They have strong leadership support that has instilled a culture of employment throughout the agency. The leadership and guidance provided by the IPS supervisor has been highly praised.
Their team was one of the first to qualify for an abbreviated fidelity review process, which is reserved for only the highest performing teams with lower turnover. At their last review, the program was highlighted for their integration and collaboration with the treatment team, strong documentation, and creative strategies for supporting people with the career goals. Their annual employment rates have consistently been higher than state and national averages.
Their employment program really embodies the spirit of “Employment is Recovery.”
TEVA
TEVA
Since Teva’s establishment in Jerusalem in 1901, our aim has been to help patients live longer, healthier lives. As we work to find solutions to tomorrow’s biggest healthcare challenges, we look back with pride at our humble beginnings and past accomplishments.
When, over a century ago, Chaim Salomon, Moshe Levin, and Yitschak Elstein came together in Jerusalem to form a small pharmaceutical business, they could not have imagined that their company would go on to be a world leader in the industry.
MO TAY-LER
MO TAY-LER
Life skills materials created by local young adults for youth, young adults, and professionals who support them. All materials were developed as part of a 5-year SAMHSA grant in Missouri’s eastern region, called Missouri Transition Age Youth-Local Engagement and Recovery (MO TAY-LER).
Marsha Hourd
Executive Director of LIFE Recovery Community Center
Presentation(s):
Charbonnier, Michelle, CRADC, CGDC, CPS
Michelle Charbonnier is executive director of MoNetwork, a recovery community center rooted in the practices and principles of harm reduction. She is a therapist and interventionist with Plan Your Recovery at Clayton Behavioral. Michelle is dedicated to giving a voice to people who use drugs and actively opposes the war on drugs. She finds fulfillment in facilitating self-inquiry processes to foster deeper understanding of oneself, relationships, and behaviors.
Presentation(s):
Cobb, Melanie, CPS and CPS Supervisor
Melanie Cobb serves as the Director of Landmark Recovery Center located in Jefferson City, Missouri. The center operates as a Recovery Community Center, aiming to provide resources and support for individuals with Behavioral Health Conditions. Being in long-term recovery, Melanie brings a personal perspective to her role, blending her passion with her professional duties. She possesses a Certified Peer Support Specialist Credential and has finished the Certified Peer Support Specialist Supervisor Training.
Presentation(s):
Stoecker, David, LCSW, CPS, HRS
David Stoecker, LCSW, CPS, HRS is a person in long-term recovery. He is the Executive Director/Founder of Better Life in Recovery and co-founder of the Springfield Recovery Community Center. He was a founding member of the Southwest Missouri Drug Poisoning Coalition. Previously, David was a therapist for 8 ½ years, working with people involved with treatment courts as well as residential and outpatient clients. He co-created the Certified Peer Specialist training for Missouri and Missouri and ICRC’s Harm Reduction Specialist training and co-facilitates both trainings.
Presentation(s):
Anderson-Harper, Rosie, MA
Rosie Anderson-Harper serves as Director of Recovery Services for the Department of Mental Health, Division of Behavioral Health (DBH). The position of Director of Recovery Services was created in 2012 to raise the level of importance of the recovery philosophy in all aspects of DBH operations, enhance recovery services and supports, and integrate them with traditional behavioral health services. As Director of Recovery Services, she supervises housing, employment services, Recovery Support Services, Consumer Operated Service Programs, peer specialist and family support services and the DBH State Advisory Council. Ms. Anderson-Harper has a Master’s degree in Educational and Counseling Psychology. She has 34 years of experience in the field of behavioral health. She passionately believes in the power of human connection that moves us together to heal the world.
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