Recovery Services & Planning

Recovery Services & Planning is a recovery and community-based services division of the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (DMHDD) that creates, expands, and oversees the development, implementation and expansion of quality Support, Employment/Education, Transportation and Housing (SETH) services and options across Tennessee for persons diagnosed with mental illness or co-occurring disorders. Recovery Services incorporates and promotes the implementation of prevention and intervention strategies, evidence-based modalities, best practices and targeted outcomes.

Recovery Services & Planning also oversees the Mental Health Safety Net—a program that provides key mental health services for Tennesseans with serious and persistent mental illness who have been disenrolled from TennCare. Twenty community mental health agencies across the state are contracted with DMHDD to provide this limited set of mental health services so that people with serious mental illness may continue leading functional, productive lives.

The Office of Planning coordinates DMHDD planning activities and responsibilities, including the development of: the Three Year Plan; the Annual Strategic Plan; and the Mental Health Block Grant application and Annual Report. The office also coordinates the annual assessment of the public's need for mental health / developmental disability services and supports required by MHDD law. Planning staff support and coordinate the activities of the TDMHDD Planning and Policy Council, state and regional Mental Health Planning and Policy Councils, and state and regional Developmental Disabilities Planning and Policy Councils.

To inquire about the Division of Recovery Services & Planning and for contact information for Marie Williams, LCSW, Mental Health Executive Director of the Division of Recovery Services and Planning, click here.