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About Us
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About Us |
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The Recovery Group has been involved in helping individuals’ transition from years in the mental hospital to life in the community through wellness and action planning at Washington DC area Hospitals. . The Recovery Group is an organization that supports persons living with mental and who are recovering from traumatic events. The origination supports individuals in recovery thru education peer support and fostering community involvement. |
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Our Mission |
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Our mission is to promote wellness and recovery that results in meaningful, empowerment through peer support education, and community involvement.. A consumer is an individual or patient who receives or has received mental health services either voluntarily or involuntarily. |
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About Our President: |
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 Yvonne Z. Smith is President and co-founder of Recovery2000/The Recovery Group, a partnership of mental health consumers. The Recovery Group (TRG) established October 2004 in the District of Columbia. Members of TRG support and encourage mental health consumer-clients in recovery. TRG members’ goals are to prevent institutionalization and dependency, encourage wellness among the population, and become an advocate for their own personal well being through empowerment, enhancement, and peer support. Yvonne Smith trained in mental health wellness recovery and action planning (WRAP), and mentored with nationally recognized recovery expert Mary Ellen Copeland. Ms. Smith is a board member of the DC Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI-DC). She facilitates NAMI-DC’s weekly combined family and consumer support group. Yvonne Z. Smith was recently commended by NAMI-DC for her work in mental health education. Ms. Smith is a faculty member at the Department of Mental Health Institute in Washington DC, where she trains peer support workers. She is a member of Voice for Work--a national group of persons with disabilities--working to change the way the Social Security Administration interacts with beneficiaries on work issues.
Yvonne Smith’s past work on national initiatives has included active participation on SAMHSA work groups that defined (1) recovery, (2) person-centered planning, and (3) disparities. » |
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| Testimonials: |
Let me tell you about Juliet(1); , a young woman who spent thirteen years in and out of the hospital. She participated in our peer support program last Christmas. Juliet now has a part-time job, is living in her own apartment, has been regularly visiting with her teenage daughter on weekends, and best of all this will be the first Christmas that Juliet has not been in the hospital in over a decade! The Recovery Group can help change the lives of others like Juliet and her family with your support. |
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• Roy’s Story » |
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• Belinda’s Story » |
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• Yvonne’s Story » |
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• Tonia’s Story » |
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| “You Are Not Alone” |
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(1) Juliet is a composite based on our work at the hospital. Real names cannot be used due to Health Information Privacy Act of 1999 (HIPA). |