PRA Academy of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Recovery is in Full Swing

With a learner centered philosophy, the Academy of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Recovery (the Academy) has standardized instructional design to strengthen learning, practice, and build consistency regardless of who from the faculty is presenting. PRA works to collaborate with like-minded groups and academic institutions as well as people in recovery and peer support specialists to achieve overall training goals.

Vision: To be the trusted source of vetted, important knowledge, and information in the areas of psychiatric rehabilitation, as well as leadership and management.
Mission: To provide whole career lifelong learning in psychiatric rehabilitation, employment, wellness, resiliency, and recovery.
Goals: Through an enhanced professional development training center, PRA connects great ideas with great people and provides exceptional learning opportunities to enhance the professional development of the psychiatric rehabilitation community in three areas:

1. Whole Career Practitioner Training & Continuing Education
2. Whole Career Leadership Training & Development
3. Special Topics & Electives in Recovery

Learn more about the Academy.

Have You Signed Up for a Course Offered by the Academy Yet?
PRA offers training and continuing education opportunities through the Academy of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Recovery, your trusted source of vetted, important information, comprising of programs in the areas of psychiatric rehabilitation, as well as leadership and management. To grow and train the recovery workforce, the Academy provides whole lifelong career learning in Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Wellness, Resiliency, and Recovery. Check out the upcoming webinars and live trainings offered through the Academy:

Webinars
Best of the 2013 PRA Annual Conference Webinar Series
Based on the evaluation feedback and popularity of the session, PRA has captured the best of the PRA 2013 Annual Conference held in June 2013 for this webinar series. Content will cover strategic planning for recovery programs, recovery strategies that should be included in medical health homes, a motivational interviewing approach to embrace performance measurement and strategies to teach shared decision making to mental health professionals. View webinars.

Health & Wellness in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Webinar Series
Dedicated to the health and wellness of persons whom the recovery workforce serves in mental health and substance use services, the Health & Wellness in Psychiatric Rehabilitation webinar series (4 parts) covers the dimensions of the SAMHSA (2013) Pledge for Wellness. Multicultural in perspective, the series is representative of physical health, sexuality, ageism and co-occurring substance-use information. Licensing of PRA services includes evidence of meeting the holistic needs of persons for whom we serve. View webinars.

Live Trainings
Children's Certificate in Psychiatric Rehabilitation In-Person Training
The Children’s Certificate in Psychiatric Rehabilitation In-Person Course is offered over 3 days and provides 20 contact hours of continuing education. This training course delivers hands-on instruction for practitioners who work with children of transition age or younger and their families. Read more.

PRA Academy Advisory Council Members
The Advisory council brings together a team of broad-based subject matter experts to serve as Ambassadors of the Academy. Their primary duties are to gather content, ideas, topics, resources, insights, and recommendations, which specifically align with the Academy’s mission and vision. View the full list of members.