The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Services (DBHDS) created a new Recovery Residence Quality Assurance Coordinator position. Applications for this full-time position are open to the general public.
According to the job posting, this person “will play a crucial role in ensuring the highest standards of safety, support, and services for individuals living in recovery residences across the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
“The primary responsibilities of this position will be to oversee and implement quality assurance programs to ensure that recovery residences are adhering to state and county health and safety regulations, internal policies, and are recovery focused; regularly inspect and evaluate recovery residences to ensure that they are meeting compliance standards based on local, state, and federal regulations; providing recovery residences with areas of improvement and actionable feedback to address any deficits. This position will work alongside DBHDS, quality management, additional internal offices, and recovery residences organizations in the development of quality assurance measures, quality improvement plans, processes to report deaths and serious injuries for recovery residences and monitoring those plans to ensure their effectiveness.”
DBHDS is “seeking a motivated individual, preferably with personal recovery experience (or of significant others)” to serve in this role. See the announcement for other minimum qualifications and information on how to apply.
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Personally, I would rather see someone outside the recovery community. Isn’t this the same issue created by VARR (house owners). More conflicts of interest? I’m grateful to see it and hope for the best, but… If DBHDS hires wrong person (person who protects VARR) will be telling. Protect the participants!
This is a good place to start. Bless you Christa for working so hard for change.
Useless. They were just contacted about a fraudulent, unlicensed recovery house that’s being run currently and they were of zero assistance , saying they don’t have authority over that. If DBHDS doesn’t have authority, who does?!?! Can someone take accountability?
It needs to be an outside advocate for outside oversight.