Personal Recovery Plan

The Personal Recovery Plan is a collaborative care planning tool for practitioners and people receiving mental health support. It helps them create recovery goals, actions, and supports that reflect the person's own priorities and can be revised as circumstances change.

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Tool guide

Learn more about this tool

Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.

Practitioner and Client Roles

The person supplies priorities and goals. The practitioner supports planning, feasibility, and connection to supports while keeping practitioner notes separate.

Repeat Use

The plan can be revisited as circumstances change, with prior versions preserved for continuity.

Important Boundary

The tool is not a generic treatment plan builder, symptom tracker, or risk plan. It does not invent goals, required domains, scores, or clinical interpretations.

Can the client complete the plan themselves?

Yes. The practitioner can send it for client completion or complete it together, depending on care context.

Does the tool create goals for the person?

No. Goals come from the person's own priorities and wording. The system organizes them and flags missing actions or supports.

What gets reviewed by the practitioner?

The practitioner reviews goals, actions, supports or strategies, completeness cues, practitioner notes, and revision history.

Can the plan change later?

Yes. The plan supports revision while preserving earlier versions used for care coordination.