Recovery Month promotes the societal benefits of prevention, treatment, and recovery for mental and substance use disorders, celebrates people in recovery, lauds the contributions of treatment and service providers, and promotes the message that recovery in all its forms is possible. Recovery Month spreads the positive message that behavioral health is essential to overall health, that prevention works, treatment is effective and people can and do recover.
Annually during the third full week of May.
“…celebrates the work that community organizations and individuals do year-round to prevent substance abuse and promote mental, emotional, and behavioral well-being.”
The largest scientific organization in the world dedicated to research focused on the understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of mental health.
“The US House of Representatives proclaimed July as this special month in 2008, aiming to improve access to mental health treatment and services through increased public awareness.”
… a project of Massachusetts General Hospital, … to find the best treatments for depression and bipolar disorder. For the first time, patients, families, doctors, and researchers are working together as equal partners to change the direction of mood disorder research.
J. Hastings, N. Novère, W. Ceusters, K. Mulligan, and B. Smith. Proceeedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, volume 897 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR, (Jul 24, 2012)
K. Henderson. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Washington, DC, (August 2008)