RCCS Tidbit of the Month: My Story
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This month’s RCCS Tidbit explores identity, one of five RCCS conversations, and our life story.
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RCCS Tidbit of the Month: Hope
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In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we offer ideas and approaches to reflect on today’s pleasures and joys. By focusing on today’s success, we can build hope for our future even when hope is hard and even when the outcome is uncertain.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Our Elders
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This month’s RCCS Tidbit offers ideas for targeting RCCS interventions to address the unique recovery challenges of older adults.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Our Community Connections
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This month’s RCCS Tidbit explores connections with like-minded communities.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Starting the Year with Kindness
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In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we provide ideas for being kind to ourselves, allowing us to extend kindness to others. Let’s start 2025 with kindness and remember we have far more in common than our differences.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Our Holiday Triggers
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In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we provide ideas for being kind to ourselves, allowing us to extend kindness to others. Let’s start 2025 with kindness and remember we have far more in common than our differences.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Giving Thanks
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In this month's RCCS Tidbit, we offer suggestions on how to use a gratitude journal to practice gratitude and reverse the harmful effects that life's challenges and traumas have made on our well-being.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Authentic Power
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In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we help clients discover and exercise their authentic power—offering them options and choices, even small ones, to help them reclaim control over their lives.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Gold Medal Resilience
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In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we highlight an RCCS Conversation Guide that program staff can use to help individuals identify their current strengths and steps to take to grow additional strengths for their future.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Our Wise Mind
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In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we review the mindfulness skill “Stop, Breathe, and Think,” along with other strategies for managing emotions that may obscure our wisdom and ability to stay on the middle path – our wise mind.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Trauma-Informed Care
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In this month's RCCS Tidbit, we offer staff ideas on supporting clients and members on the recovery journey as they heal from past hurts and traumas.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Overcoming Our Grieving Impairments
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In this month's RCCS Tidbit, we explore the concept of "grieving impairments" and discuss practical ways to overcome them to provide meaningful support to those facing grief and loss.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit of the Month: Setting Boundaries
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In this month's RCCS Tidbit, we offer ideas on setting boundaries with others that can help you maintain a balance between assuming the best of others while being transparent about your needs and safety.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: Providing Healing and Promoting Hope
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This Women’s History Month, we wanted to focus on the theme: Providing Healing and Promoting Hope. This pandemic has had an extraordinary impact on women’s health and wellness — primarily on women of color and the LGBTQIA+ community. This month, we wanted to share some history and resources to help support wellness for anyone who identifies as a woman.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit Of The Month: Laughter Is Medicine
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In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we share ways of bringing joy to the soul and better ways of understanding of how laughter affects human physiology.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit Of The Month: Gratitude
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A Component of Reducing Harm – One of the Five Conversations of the RCCS. As psychologists continue to explore the healing impacts on our brains from the practice of gratitude, one thing is clear: Gratitude offers extensive benefits of well-being.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit Of The Month: Empathy
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In meeting with and listening to staff, clients, and members, we hear that many individuals at Telecare programs seem to be alone in life. Making and building strong, supportive connections takes time. Past hurts and trauma can make it hard for clients and members to engage and trust others. Individuals need to re-learn skills and practice. In the video to the right, one Telecare HOMES member illustrates the power of connection through their story.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit Of The Month: Suicide Awareness
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Suicidal thoughts, much like mental health conditions, can affect anyone regardless of age, gender or background. In fact, suicide is often the result of an untreated mental health condition. Suicidal thoughts, although common, should not be considered normal and often indicate more serious issues.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit Of The Month: Past Friends
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In meeting with and listening to staff, clients, and members, we hear that many individuals at Telecare programs seem to be alone in life. Making and building strong, supportive connections takes time. Past hurts and trauma can make it hard for clients and members to engage and trust others. Individuals need to re-learn skills and practice. In the video to the right, one Telecare HOMES member illustrates the power of connection through their story.
Read MoreRCCS Tidbit Of The Month: Recovery-Oriented Language
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Do you remember when you were growing up being taught the phrase, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”? We were taught that so we could remain strong when we were bullied or disrespected by others. However, you might also remember that while you weren’t physically harmed by another person’s words, their hurtful language left an invisible wound that sometimes took longer to heal than a physical wound might have.
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