Community-Centered Recovery Care: Integration in Practice
A compassionate, relational, and academically grounded approach to substance use recovery–honoring both individual healing and collective wellbeing
Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Time: 12:00 – 4:00 PM EST
Format: Virtual – Zoom
Fee: $45
About the training
This interactive training offers graduate students, mental health professionals, and recovery coaches an opportunity to examine a broader, more community-centered understanding of integrated care in substance use recovery. Moving beyond a focus on coordinated services alone, the session explores how recovery support is deepened when practitioners attend to the whole person and consider the ways lived experience, identity, culture, spirituality, family, and community inform practice.
Through reflection, dialogue, breakout discussions, and practical application, participants will explore integrated care as a compassionate, relational, and academically grounded approach.
Guest presenter Octavia J Hendricks will offer insights into integrated care within a South African context, broadening the conversation across geographies, traditions, and practice settings.This event is hosted by the William James College ADEPT Center in collaboration with the Sankofa Institute for Collective Wellbeing and the William James College Center for Multicultural and Global Mental Health.
Learning Objectives
Define community-centered integrated care.
Articulate a broader understanding of integrated care that moves beyond service coordination
to include the whole person and their context.
Recognize the role of identity and culture.
Examine how lived experience, identity, culture, spirituality, family, and community
shape pathways into and through recovery.
Apply relational practice approaches.
Use reflection and dialogue to translate compassionate, relational principles into
day-to-day clinical and coaching encounters.
Draw insights from integrate care within a South African context to enrich and challenge local practice frameworks.