What is the difference between a Recovery Coach and a case manager?

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What is the difference between a Recovery Coach and a case manager?

The key difference is the type of support each role provides. Recovery Coaches focus on coaching, motivation, and linking people to nonclinical resources and supports. They help someone stay engaged in recovery, set goals, and connect with peers and community services, but they don’t deliver clinical therapy or medical treatment planning. Case managers handle coordinating services and treatment logistics across a broader system of care. They arrange and connect various services (appointments, housing, transportation, benefits, providers) and often take on responsibilities that involve coordinating treatment plans within a clinical team. This helps ensure all pieces of care fit together. Other descriptions misstate the roles: Recovery Coaches don’t provide clinical therapy, and case managers work with a wide range of services rather than just housing and transportation, and they do coordinate rather than avoid coordination.

The key difference is the type of support each role provides. Recovery Coaches focus on coaching, motivation, and linking people to nonclinical resources and supports. They help someone stay engaged in recovery, set goals, and connect with peers and community services, but they don’t deliver clinical therapy or medical treatment planning.

Case managers handle coordinating services and treatment logistics across a broader system of care. They arrange and connect various services (appointments, housing, transportation, benefits, providers) and often take on responsibilities that involve coordinating treatment plans within a clinical team. This helps ensure all pieces of care fit together.

Other descriptions misstate the roles: Recovery Coaches don’t provide clinical therapy, and case managers work with a wide range of services rather than just housing and transportation, and they do coordinate rather than avoid coordination.

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