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It was a humble beginning in 1990 when Gene launched META Services out of his Mesa garage, but the Company grew and became successful delivering crisis services in the Phoenix East Valley. However, by the end of its first decade, this traditional behavioral healthcare Company was shifting its focus to a new paradigm. The influence of Dan Fisher from the National Empowerment Center and RI peer leaders Lisa St. George, Marianne Long, and many others led Gene to announce META Services would become a "recovery organization." The name was changed in 2006.
Recovery is a ubiquitous word in the behavioral health community today, and it is easy to forget how landmark it was when RI began employing hundreds of peers in the early 2000s. The Company created opportunities and environments that empower people to recover; built crisis facilities known for recovery, opportunity, Welcoming Environments, and "No Force First;" and generated meaningful jobs for peer support specialists.

Peers would change Recovery Innovations, and the Company changed its focus.

• RI adopted a service framework and practice built on the belief that recovery is possible for everyone;
• RI created the discipline of peer support with one of the largest integrated peer workforces in the world (more than half of its nearly 800 employees);
• RI focused on eliminating violence within crisis services through the practice of no-force-first and healing spaces;
• RI created the Recovery Education Center where education is a pathway to recovery;
• RI created the Wellness City as an alternative to outpatient services where people seeking recovery are citizens of the City with full ownership over their services in pursuit of a better life.

In the 1970s, activist Judi Chamberlin was fond of saying, "End psychiatric oppression by Tuesday." But, decades later it wasn’t clear how this could be accomplished in the real world. Today, we know that hiring a critical threshold of certified peers and integrating them into a behavioral healthcare workforce to drive recovery concepts fundamentally changes systems of care and the outcomes they achieve.
RI’s focus on "what’s strong," not "what’s wrong" and clinical quality is transformative at a time the field is demanding an approach grounded in relationship and recovery. It’s the mission and the composition of the teams that make the difference, helping individuals and families to succeed in accomplishing their goals and to reconnect to themselves, others, and to meaning and purpose in life.

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Introduction: Many Nordic and international studies have demonstrated that Advance Practice Nursing (APN) can contribute to the improvement of access to healthcare services, not only for patients with less acute health problems but also for those with long-term health conditions. The Nordic APN model emphasizes the importance of focusing on health, ethos, a caring relationship, and a holistic approach. This model comprises eight core competencies: direct clinical practice, ethical decision making, coaching and guidance, consultation, co-operation, case management, research and development, and leadership.

Purpose and methods: The purpose of the presentation is to present motivational dialogue as an evidence based method for health promotion in APN. The design of the study is theoretical and a systematic research review was conducted based on included studies.

Results: Health promotion in APN has been defined in literature and research as an interpersonal, “expert” coaching and guidance during transitional life stages: for example, illness or disease, childbirth, grief, bereavement, or painful loss. “Empowerment” and a person-centered patient approach have emerged as key concepts in coaching. Motivational dialogues are a useful and viable method for coaching and guidance, and several studies demonstrate good results when this method is applied.

Conclusion: To be responsible for, lead and coordinate health promotion and health promotive work is a central responsibility in APN, and the need for such has become increasingly evident because the number of patients with long-term health conditions is increasing in society. Through the use of motivational dialogue, the patient’s health and wellbeing can be promoted.

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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes the right of every child to express their views on all matters of concern to them and to have those views given due weight.  It also recognizes that children are entitled to respect for their evolving capacities in the exercise of their rights. Together these two provisions have profound implications for the role of children in their own health care, and the way in which health services are delivered. This session will explore how the concept of participation and evolving capacities have been interpreted since the adoption of the Convention in 1989 and the ways in which that interpretation needs to influence the work of health care professionals at the clinical level, at the institutional or systems level and at the level of public policy impacting on children’s health and well being.