Promoting Recovery and Opportunity through Mentoring, Insight, Support & Education

About Us

Promoting Recovery and Opportunity through Mentoring, Insight, Support and Education

Mecklenburg’s PROMISE is a community-wide collaborative of individuals in recovery from mental health challenges, service providers, family members and community members who are committed to promoting mental health recovery through education, collaboration and system transformation.

To do so, Mecklenburg’s PROMISE employs individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges and mental health professionals, who advance the understanding of recovery and best practices through training, consultation, research, peer support, leadership and advocacy. Believing that all people striving toward mental wellness can recover and that with support, opportunity and knowledge, the recovery journey can be enhanced, Mecklenburg’s PROMISE serves as a local leader, transforming the mental health service delivery system from a Traditional/Medical Model to the Recovery Model.

Mecklenburg’s PROMISE promotes the following beliefs and values:

I. Recovery, Resilience and Wellness

Recovery, Resilience and Wellness principles and approaches are used as a blueprint and driving force in all activities undertaken by Mecklenburg’s PROMISE, furthering the belief that individuals with mental wellness challenges can, and do, recover.

II. Collaboration and Partnership

Mecklenburg’s PROMISE is committed to developing a “network” of support by facilitating activities to encourage collaboration between service providers, individuals in recovery and their family members. Mecklenburg’s PROMISE actively seeks to employ, consult and collaborate with individuals in recovery, family members, advocacy and self advocacy groups to ensure that is working in concert with and on behalf of consumers in Mecklenburg County.

III. Education and Peer Support

Mecklenburg’s PROMISE empowers, supports and educates individuals on mental health recovery to reduce stigma, create opportunities, and impact mental health policy. Further, Mecklenburg’s PROMISE is committed to providing the support needed for the community, individuals in recovery, service providers and family members to embrace, understand, and utilize the elements of recovery in their personal and professional lives.