Recovery InSight’s guiding principles are to:

• Develop understanding of peer support services with mutual respect while building trusting relationships with shared responsibilities;
• Support and assist individuals in their recovery and community integration process;
• Offer hope to individuals that recovery is not only possible but probable;
• Promote empowerment, self-determination, understanding, coping skills, and resilience through mentoring and service coordination supports;
• Achieve personal wellness and cope with stressors and barriers encountered when recovering from their disabilities;
• Support individuals choices and the active involvement of persons in their recovery process;
• Provide information and opportunities for individuals to identify and choose for themselves their desired roles with regard to living, learning, working, and social interaction in the community;
• Encourage individuals to recognize and make decisions about opportunities to engage in activities which interest them;
• Provide self-directed, person-centered, recovery focused support;
• Facilitate the development of recovery skills;
• Support self-advocacy, education, development of natural supports, support of work or other meaningful activity of the individual’s choosing;
• Utilization of Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) to prevent crisis intervention or hospitalization;
• Educate effective utilization of the mental health service delivery system;
• Coordination of and linkage to other service providers;
• Recognize, respect and accommodate differences as they relate to culture/ethnicity/race, religion, gender identity and sexual orientation;
• Support individual human rights and eliminate discrimination and stigma.