Welcome to the new website for The Recovery and Rehabilitation Centre.

 Mental Health Recovery, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Training, Treatment, Counselling, Consulting and Research

We are continuing and expanding on the work of Prahran Missions Centre for accredited Boston University Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training

The Recovery and Rehabilitation Centre, (RRC), provides a range of Training options (including professional supervision) to mental health professionals, Research related to Recovery and Rehabilitation, and Consulting to organisations regarding service or program development, outcome measurement, and methods and processes to facilitate Recovery.

Training and consulting services are designed  for  all mental health settings including, Clinical, Community and PDRSS. For further details, and the Training Calendar, please see the training and consulting pages.

Pacers Consulting provides Rehabilitation and Counselling for individuals and groups. This is avaliable for people who have experienced mental illness, as well as family members and Carers. Medicare rebates are available for these services. Please see the page for individuals for more details.

Both arms of the service are closely linked. In effect we practice what we teach. Rigorous research informs the practice, and the practice highlights further areas for research and testing. Thus, in conjunction with our associate organisations, we are constantly researching and refining our interventions. For further details see the Research page.

Mara Pacers is the Principal of the RRC, assisted by highly experienced and respected Mental Health Practitioners.

Mara has over 20 years direct experience working in the Mental health field; as a practitioner, in management, and at policy and Board levels. Her expertise covers both State and Federal Programs as well as metropolitan and rural services. She is qualified in psychology (BBSc psych), social work (BSW), public policy (MPPM) and public sector MBA. She is currently in the final stage of completing her PhD at Melbourne University on "Recovery from Mental Illness".