Recovery-Net: A Multilevel and Collaborative Approach to Mental Healthcare Transformation

A recent orientation of therapeutic practices in mental healthcare is moving from focusing on the treatment of the disease (clinical recovery) to the promotion of wellbeing (personal recovery) that implies a growing engagement of users toward co-production. This transformation requires the innovation of individual services and organisations, but also the collaboration with a wider set of local actors, able to guarantee the continuity of care, and enhance the potential for rehabilitation and social inclusion. This chapter will illustrate the first step of an action research project—Recovery-Net—toward the establishment of 3 Recovery Co-Labs in the Lombardy region in Italy, intended as the operational mechanism to activate and operationalise this transformation. The text will focus on the specific Co-Lab to be established in the city of Brescia, in the urban periphery of San Polo District.