Community Inclusion and Recovery: How Community Inclusion Helped Me

Using the presenter’s personal journey of working to get off of disability benefits after 20 years for permanent full-time employment, this webinar discusses the importance of community inclusion for peers with mental health challenges. Sometimes stigma, community mental health care, and lack of self-confidence can make community participation more difficult for people with mental health challenges. However, community inclusion is key to being well, getting well, and staying well. Learning Objectives: - State the definition of Community Inclusion. - Describe how Community Inclusion benefits everyone, including community members with disabilities. - List at least 3 obstacles to Community Inclusion and 3 ways peer specialists can navigate those obstacles.