What is Recovery?
Mental health recovery, even from the most serious and persistent mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorder, is possible.  With self-management, appropriate treatments and support systems, studies have shown that individuals recover or significantly improve.  

What Does it Look Like?
When individuals manage their own illness with the supports that they need AND are able to live and work in the community successfully, attend school, engage in active social activities, maintain a healthy lifestyle and more. 

So How Does Someone Recover from a Mental Illness?
MHA Village helps individuals recover from mental illness, using a concept that recovery has four stages: 

Hope
Recovery begins with a positive vision of the future.  Individuals need to see possibilities – getting a job, earning a diploma, having an apartment – before they can move forward. 

Empowerment
To be empowered, individuals need access to information and the opportunity to make their own choices.  At MHA Village, members choose the types of services they want using our menu of service options. 

Self-Responsibility
As individuals move toward recovery, they realize they need to be responsible for their own lives. This comes with trying new things, learning from mistakes and trying again. 

Meaningful Role in Life
To recover, individuals need a purpose separate from their illness. They need to apply hopefulness, confidence and self-responsibility to roles such as employee, neighbor, parent, graduate and volunteer.  Meaningful roles help people with mental illness get their lives back.

Read more about recovery from Dr. Mark's Writings.

Learn more about the recovery training programs we offer.