Recovery Lessons from US Cities
• Peter Rainford
• www.peterrainford.wordpress.com• Contains 40 film clips plus blog posts from my
Churchill Fellowship in the USA• In Feb 2011 an interactive report of my
fellowship, including over 100 film clips and links to all project visited, will be available to view and download from the website
40 Film clips can be viewed @ www.peterrainford.wordpress.com
Contents
• The New Recovery Movement
• Peer led Recovery Centres in Action
• Telephone Recovery Support
• Recovery Centre Lessons
• Advocacy & Peer Support
• Specialist Services• Leadership & service
transformation in Philadelphia
• 4 Quick wins• Pioneers• Credits & Thanks
The New Recovery Movement
• William White puts the new US Recovery movement in its historical context
• http://peterrainford.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/the-new-recovery-movement-%E2%80%93-william-white/
Features of the New Recovery Movement
• There are many pathways to Recovery & all are a cause for celebration - Co-operation
• Recovery is a voluntary, individual, self directed journey
• Recovery is a reality and it’s contagious• Recovery should be available to anyone• Put a face on recovery and widen the gateway
into it 20 million Americans in Recovery - rather than “celebrity rehab”)
• Services must change to provide choice and individual support (both acute and long term)
The Recovery community must be at the heart of these changes
• A Recovery Bill of Rights
Peer Led Recovery Centres in Action
http://peterrainford.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/every-city-should-hav-one-bridgeport-fil
/
http://peterrainford.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/what-can-we-do-to-help-you-in-your-recovery/
Telephone Recovery Support
• Began in Connecticut in 2005 with 22 recipients
• 1,100 people enrolled last year
• 4,000 people received service since 2007
• Weekly Recovery support phone call
• Made by Recovery peers (voluntary but trained)
• Offered to everyone leaving treatment
At 12 weeks post treatment TRS sobriety rate is 82%
Recovery Centre Lessons
Phil Valentine & William White say
that the leadership
MUSTcome from people
in recovery• http://peterrainford.wordpress.com/
2010/10/30/phil-valentine-on-setting-up-a-recovery-community-centre/
• http://peterrainford.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/william-white-on-community-recovery-centres/
Advocacy & Peer Support
“A Recovery Community Centre is not treatment, nor is it just peer support services”
Pat Taylor Faces & voices of Recovery
http://peterrainford.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/recovery-support-and-advocacy-in-washington-dc/
PRO-ACT - Pennsylvania Recovery Organization-Achieving Community Together
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Five strategies to support our belief & Five
volunteer-driven committees with common goals:
AmendsIn Action
EducatingThe
Community
Recreation&
Celebration
PublicPolicy
RecoverySupport Services
Reduce stigma, Give back to community & Build relationships with different populations
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Family works together to reduce stigma
HabitatFor
Humanity
Amends in Action
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Suitcases for Kids
The whole community bought into project
Minimal time & effort
Easily duplicated in other areas
Amends in Action
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Family Education Program:
One of PRO-ACT’s first One of PRO-ACT’s first outreach efforts – started outreach efforts – started in 2001.in 2001.
It is an education program It is an education program for families of those for families of those addicted to alcohol or addicted to alcohol or other Provides a direct other Provides a direct service needed within service needed within communitycommunity
Volunteers act as Volunteers act as educators and mentors educators and mentors
Project can be duplicated Project can be duplicated in other areasin other areas
Reduces stigma & Reduces stigma & increases understanding increases understanding of diseaseof disease
drugs3 session program- runs drugs3 session program- runs monthly in 6 sites throughout monthly in 6 sites throughout Southeast PASoutheast PA
Educating the Community
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Activities have included:
Recovery DayPicnic
New Year’sEve
Comedy Show
Tree of Hope
Recovery Walks!!
BaseballInitiative
Celebration/Recreation Committee
Recovery Walk 2010
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National Night Out’s Baseball Initiative
Celebration/Recreation Committee
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Tree of HopeCelebration/Recreation Committee
Doug Gould presents Dan Haigh with the Tom Nelson Award for exceptional work as a volunteer
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Members will meet
with legislators & attend rallies
Help run a voter
RegistrationCampaign
PRO-ACT Members
serve on ConsumerBoards
Plan Legislator’sBreakfast
Peer Leadership
Academy
Public Policy Committee
Hold focus groups &
identify issues through consumer
satisfaction surveys
Sit in on Policy meetings
Public Policy work
• Peer Leadership Academy- trains zip code leaders on a college accredited course
• Sitting in on Senate hearings
Philly Recovery Centre Services
• Recovery planning• Recovery coaching• Computer skills building/job skills• Assistance in finding housing, educational, job readiness,
employment opportunities• Assistance in building constructive family and personal
relationships• 12 ongoing Life skill building programs • Health and wellness activities• Assistance managing systems (e.g., health care, criminal justice,
child welfare)• Alcohol and drug-free social/recreational activities• Spiritual/faith-based support• Discussion groups
Women’s Services
• Power Inside Baltimore
• New Pathways for Women
• Women House of HUGS
• Chances
Veterans Services
• Samaritan Village New York
• What began as a veterans club and a special group has now grown into two, innovative treatment programs providing specialized services to 98 male veterans.
• A specialist women’s veterans treatment programme has just opened
LGBT Services
• Centre Care Recovery
• New York Gay Center
• LGBT services in Philadelphia
• http://peterrainford.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/recovery-rainbow-lgbt-recovery-services-new-york/
• http://peterrainford.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/recovery-rainbow-lgbt-recovery-services-new-york/
Leadership & Service Transformation in Philadelphia
• Personal Recovery Planning• Asset based • Chronic not acute• Choice from menu of services• People in Recovery at heart of
service design and delivery
http://peterrainford.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/transformng-philadelphia%E2%80%99s-recovery-services-why-what-how/
http://peterrainford.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/a-gift-from-philadelphia%E2%80%A6-and-an-offer-of-help/
“I used to drive the bus. Now I just sit at the back and pay for
the gas”Dr Roland Lamb
Director of Addiction Recovery Services Philadelphia
And Also…
• Drug Courts• NIJ’s Multi state Adult
drug court evaluation• Moral Reconation
Therapy• Re-integration
programmes New York
• Recovery Housing• Oxford House
movement• University of Chicago
study• TRS study (CT)• Recovery house
rating
4 Quick Wins
1. 3 things a friend would say you are good at
2. Trees of Hope & rocks of inspiration
3. Telephone Recovery Support
4. Recovery Wristband
“By hiding our recovery we have sustained the most
harmful myth about addiction disease- that it is hopeless. And without the example of
recovering people it is easy for the public to continue to think that the victims of addiction
disease are moral degenerates… We are the
lucky ones, the ones who got well. And it is our responsibility
to change the terms of the debate for the sake of those
who still suffer.”Former US Senator Harold Hughes
A Big Thank you to:• The Winston Churchill
Memorial Trust for their funding
• Everyone in the US who made me so welcome and gave so generously of their time
• All those in the UK who suggested places, people & projects to visit and questions to ask
• Ellen Roach for planting the seed