The personal experience with care and life with a diagnosis of schizophrenia is an essential foundation of the recovery-concept. Recovery-orientation is widely endorsed as a guiding principle of mental health policy and warrants the realization of person-centered approaches. Core elements include empowerment, resilience, dignity, self-determination, choice, and community inclusion. People with a diagnosis of schizophrenia benefit from flexible support for everyday life in the community in core areas of personal life, such as housing, health, education, employment, and family life. Community-based alternatives to conventional services, pertaining to e.g. acute crisis interventions, independent living, and vocational rehabilitation, need to be implemented in the context of emerging empirical evidence on the value of supporting a person’s individual preferences as well as legal developments with regard to self-determination and social inclusion as formulated in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The UN-CRPD includes a call for the inclusion of persons with lived experience of psychosocial disabilities in service planning, delivery, quality assurance, and research. Data show peer support is feasible and effective in different forms in the community. User-led research as well as collaborations between researchers with and without lived experience of psychosis have significantly impacted the development of the recovery model and the focus on person-centeredness of care. Such collaborations have consequences with regard to research topics, methods as well as dissemination and are paramount for meeting the scientific responsibilities of recovery-orientation and person-centered care for persons with a diagnosis of schizophrenia in the community.