COE Empowered Pathways: Supporting Personal Choice in Recovery - JHF

October 7, 2026

Participants will explore how a person-centered approach to recovery supports individuals in identifying pathways that align with their goals, values, preferences, and changing needs. They will examine how individual and organizational biases can shape recovery support and consider strategies, including motivational interviewing and diverse referral partnerships, that promote autonomy, respectful engagement, and access to multiple pathways within the COE model.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction and COE Connections
    • COE Fidelity Guidelines
    • COE Guiding Principles
    • Defining recovery
  2. Understanding Multiple Pathways to Recovery
    • Evolution of recovery definitions
    • Abstinence and recovery
    • Recovery as a personal process
    • Pathways working together
    • Pathways evolving over time
  3. Exploring Recovery Pathways
    • 12-Step Mutual Aid
    • Secular Mutual Aid
    • Faith-Based Recovery
    • Clinical Recovery
    • Medication-Assisted Recovery
    • Self-Directed Recovery
    • Culturally Based Recovery
    • Considerations for individual fit
    • Discussion and application
  4. Recovery Pathways in Practice
    • Combining multiple recovery pathways
    • Matching supports to individual needs and goals
    • Reassessing pathways as needs and priorities change
  5. Using Motivational Interviewing to Support Pathway Choice
    • Moving from “Which path?” to “What fits?”
    • Exploring goals, values, and preferences
    • Elicit–Provide–Elicit
    • Questions that support informed choice
  6. Organizational Considerations for Supporting Multiple Pathways
    • Team composition
    • Interview and hiring practices
    • Organizational policies
    • Staff training
    • Referral and community partnerships
  7. Wrap-Up and Discussion

Target Audience

  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Social Worker

Learning Objectives

Identify key client-centered factors that inform discussions about recovery pathway options

Examine personal and systemic biases toward specific recovery pathways, and assess how these biases may influence client engagement and outcomes

Analyze core principles from recovery literature that emphasize individual autonomy and the right to choose one’s own recovery path

Examine strategies for engaging respectfully with clients from diverse recovery backgrounds

 

 

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Course summary

Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
10/07/2026
Course expires: 
11/07/2026
Event starts: 
10/07/2026 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
10/07/2026 - 1:30pm EDT
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Participants will explore how a person-centered approach to recovery supports individuals in identifying pathways that align with their goals, values, preferences, and changing needs. They will examine how individual and organizational biases can shape recovery support and consider strategies, including motivational interviewing and diverse referral partnerships, that promote autonomy, respectful engagement, and access to multiple pathways within the COE model.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction and COE Connections
    • COE Fidelity Guidelines
    • COE Guiding Principles
    • Defining recovery
  2. Understanding Multiple Pathways to Recovery
    • Evolution of recovery definitions
    • Abstinence and recovery
    • Recovery as a personal process
    • Pathways working together
    • Pathways evolving over time
  3. Exploring Recovery Pathways
    • 12-Step Mutual Aid
    • Secular Mutual Aid
    • Faith-Based Recovery
    • Clinical Recovery
    • Medication-Assisted Recovery
    • Self-Directed Recovery
    • Culturally Based Recovery
    • Considerations for individual fit
    • Discussion and application
  4. Recovery Pathways in Practice
    • Combining multiple recovery pathways
    • Matching supports to individual needs and goals
    • Reassessing pathways as needs and priorities change
  5. Using Motivational Interviewing to Support Pathway Choice
    • Moving from “Which path?” to “What fits?”
    • Exploring goals, values, and preferences
    • Elicit–Provide–Elicit
    • Questions that support informed choice
  6. Organizational Considerations for Supporting Multiple Pathways
    • Team composition
    • Interview and hiring practices
    • Organizational policies
    • Staff training
    • Referral and community partnerships
  7. Wrap-Up and Discussion
Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Julie Brewer MSW, MPH

 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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