Promise Resource Network: Charlotte’s Peer & Mental Health Recovery Collaborative

Who They Are

Promise Resource Network is a collaborative of peers, providers, families and community members committed to enhancing mental health recovery through education and system transformation. Promise Resource Network (formerly Mecklenburg’s PROMISE) employs individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges, who advance the understanding of recovery and best practices through training, consultation, peer support and advocacy.

It is a peer-operated 501c3 that is devoted to enhancing lives, communities, and families impacted by mental health and substance use challenges. By creating opportunities for recovery, advancing recovery knowledge and skills, and pairing our personal and professional experience of recovery, PRN challenges people to recover, systems to innovate, and practitioners to provide effective supports.

Their Vision

"We envision that every person experiencing emotional challenges will find the hope, inspiration and supports to move through challenges, discover their strengths, live their dreams, and find meaningful purpose in their lives."

Their Mission

"We are a team, united by our personal and professional experiences, partnering with individuals, organizations and communities to instill hope and encourage personal growth by providing education, consultation and peer support to advance recovery in policy and practice."

Their Initiatives

Recovery-oriented system transformation requires a presence and relevance at local, state and national levels. To pursue our mission and vision, PRN has established various initiatives that directly impact individual people and families, provider organizations and practitioners as well as communities and systems.

Recovery Hub

The Recovery Hub is an epicenter of recovery activity for Mecklenburg County. It is a partnership between PRN and Meridian Behavioral Health that offers an array of recovery-based supports. Our Recovery Navigators explore local opportunities, resources, and services with people to move beyond the illness-maintenance cycle under which traditional behavioral health systems operate to dream big and move toward their aspirations and dreams. The Recovery Hub also provides free daily recovery classes, home and community-based peer support,brief solution-focused therapy, and assistance to pursue home ownership, build financial health, succeed in employment aspirations and accomplish educational goals. The Recovery Hub is a Mecklenburg County initiative, designed to offer a variety of recovery-based resources for people with MH/SA challenges in our community that do not have Medicaid benefits.

Recovery University

Recovery University is a national technical assistance center that offers recovery trainings, webinars, and consultation to organizations, managed care organizations, and states as they move toward a recovery-based behavioral health system of care that expects high fidelity evidence-based practices,has as its foundation psychiatric rehabilitation, and yields recovery and personal quality of life outcomes.

Peer Academy

Peer Academy is their training and technical assistance entity that invests in future and current Peer Support Specialists and peer supervisors to build knowledge, skills and tools needed for effective peer support.

NC Employment First Technical Assistance Center

The NC|EF|TAC was established in response to a Department of Justice settlement that highlights employment as an effective path to recovery. Our NC|EF|TAC disseminates information on the evidence-based supported employment model, Individualized Placement and Support (IPS), and provides training to all Supported Employment IPS teams and Assertive Community Treatment team Employment Specialists in North Carolina. In partnership with the NC Best Practices Team, our TAC employees also conduct independent fidelity reviews and provides individualized technical assistance to managed care agencies and behavioral health organizations as they transition away from "readiness" approaches to "Employment First."

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