Specifications include, but are not limited to: DSAMH seeks vendors to implement Recovery Community Centers (RCC) to serve adults (over 18 years old) with mental health and substance use challenges and others who are not better served by other resources in the community. DSAMH is seeking proposals from qualified providers for the provision of Recovery Community Centers (RCCs) that are peer-operated and will serve as a local resource of community-based recovery support. RCCs provide a unique role that builds on professional services and mutual-help organizations by connecting individuals to resources that address social determinant of health barriers, access to social services, employment and skills training, and education support. Individuals do not live at these centers, but rather receive encouragement and assistance that can help them build social support, wellness habits, and recovery capital at the community level by providing advocacy training, wellness and recovery information and resource mobilization, mutual-help, peer-support organization meetings (e.g., Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous, SMART Recovery training), social activities, and other community-based services. They may also help facilitate supportive relationships among individuals in recovery, as well as community and family members. The RCC is not a treatment program, but rather a gathering place for community members in recovery from alcohol and other drugs.
