COE Supporting Recovery Across the Four Pillars - JHF

July 1, 2026

Participants will explore collaborative recovery planning strategies that support individuals across the four pillars of recovery: health, home, purpose, and community. They will learn how to use the Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital (BARC-10) to guide person-centered goal setting and strengthen recovery capital at the individual, family, and community levels.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
  2. Overview of the Peer Role
    1. Origins of Peer Recovery Support Specialists (PRSS)
    2. Peers core functions (affiliational, informational, emotional, instrumental),
    3. How peers operate within a social model of recovery
    4. SAMHSA's 10 Guiding Principles of Recovery
  3. Origins of the Four Pillars Framework
    1. Background on SAMHSA's 2012 Recovery Support Strategic Initiatives
    2. Key leaders and organizations involved
    3. Conceptual shift from pathology-focused care to an additive, strength-based recovery model
  4. The Four Pillars
    1. Health — Holistic wellness (8 dimensions), from symptom survival to recovery as identity
    2. Home — Safety and belonging, grounded in Maslow's hierarchy of needs
    3. Purpose — Meaningful roles, from external scaffolding to generativity and legacy
    4. Community — Relationships and belonging, from protective containment to community building
  5. Recovery Planning & the BARC-10
  6. using the BARC-10 and recovery planning tools meaningfully
  7. person-directed planning principles and challenges in goal-setting
  8. Discussion
  9. Key takeaways
  10. Questions

Target Audience

  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Social Worker

Learning Objectives

• Attendees will consider methods of collaborative recovery planning across the four pillars of health, home, purpose and community.
• Attendees will understand how the BARC-10 can be utilized to orient recovery goals on the individualized goals of the person in care.
• Attendees will lean how to support the recovery journey across the four pillars of health, home. Purpose and community across the three spheres of recovery capital, individual, family and community.

 

 

Additional Information

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: 
07/01/2026
Course expires: 
08/01/2026
Event starts: 
07/01/2026 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
07/01/2026 - 1:30pm EDT

Participants will explore collaborative recovery planning strategies that support individuals across the four pillars of recovery: health, home, purpose, and community. They will learn how to use the Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital (BARC-10) to guide person-centered goal setting and strengthen recovery capital at the individual, family, and community levels.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
  2. Overview of the Peer Role
    1. Origins of Peer Recovery Support Specialists (PRSS)
    2. Peers core functions (affiliational, informational, emotional, instrumental),
    3. How peers operate within a social model of recovery
    4. SAMHSA's 10 Guiding Principles of Recovery
  3. Origins of the Four Pillars Framework
    1. Background on SAMHSA's 2012 Recovery Support Strategic Initiatives
    2. Key leaders and organizations involved
    3. Conceptual shift from pathology-focused care to an additive, strength-based recovery model
  4. The Four Pillars
    1. Health — Holistic wellness (8 dimensions), from symptom survival to recovery as identity
    2. Home — Safety and belonging, grounded in Maslow's hierarchy of needs
    3. Purpose — Meaningful roles, from external scaffolding to generativity and legacy
    4. Community — Relationships and belonging, from protective containment to community building
  5. Recovery Planning & the BARC-10
  6. using the BARC-10 and recovery planning tools meaningfully
  7. person-directed planning principles and challenges in goal-setting
  8. Discussion
  9. Key takeaways
  10. Questions

 

Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Bill Stauffer

 

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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