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CBHL Leadership Community | Leadership in Recovery and Resilience
October 8, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Theme: Leading by Empowering
10:00 am PT / 11:00 am MT / 12:00 pm CT / 1:00 pm ET
This event is for CBHL members.
Join us for a 4-part series kicking off this September for National Recovery Month, designed especially for leaders and staff working to build more recovery-oriented cultures within their behavioral health organizations. In partnership with Crestwood Recovery Resilient Solutions, this interactive series titled Leadership in Recovery and Resilience will explore how recovery, resilience, and person-centered care can truly shape leadership and organizational practices.
Each one-hour session will take place on the second Wednesday of the month and offer practical tools, real-life examples, and engaging discussions to help bring recovery principles to life—whether through culture change, leadership strategies, or integrating peer support into your teams. Each session will focus on a Recovery and Resilience Topic that are important for Leaders to foster as part of their Recovery culture oversight and team inspiration.
- Session 1: Inspiring Hope as a Leader / September 10
- Session 2: Leading by Empowering / October 8
- Session 3: Leadership is About Relationship / November 12
- Session 4: Tapping into the Team’s Meaning and Purpose / December 10
Leadership Community Host
James Ritchie
Administrator at Crestwood Behavioral Health, Inc
James Ritchie, Ph.D., CMPSS has leveraged his 40 years of lived recovery experience to actively train, promote, and support recovery and peer support in California and beyond. James also led the development of 15 county-run prevention and early intervention projects and programs. He has also been certified as an instructor/trainer in several Behavioral Health areas, including suicide intervention, prevention, crisis response, and Crisis Intervention Team Training for first responders. James is currently the Director of Operations on the Crestwood Recovery Resilience Solutions team and facilitates and coordinates peer support and related training across the State of California and beyond.
What is a CBHL Leadership Community?
CBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders, organizations, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.
What is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community?
- Improve knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration, the exchange of ideas, and professional dialogue.
- Facilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual, organizational, and community outcomes.
- Encourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest.