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Recovery support services and lived experience initiatives guidance published
New guidance on recovery support services and lived experience initiatives has been published. This guidance supports alcohol and drug treatment and recovery partnerships to understand the evidence for, value of and ways to develop lived experience initiatives and recovery support services. These initiatives and services help individuals and their families sustain recovery long term.
It has been written in collaboration with:
- Dr Ed Day, National Recovery Champion
- the College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (CLERO) Connector leads
- members of the CLERO’s lived experience recovery organisation network
The guidance is in 4 parts, as follows.
Part 1 introduces recovery, peer support and lived experience initiatives. It covers:
- what we mean by recovery and the factors that influence it
- what a recovery-oriented system of care is and how the services within it work together to promote and support recovery
- the role of peer support and lived experience initiatives
Part 2 outlines the evidence for and current provision of recovery support services in England. These are:
- mutual aid and facilitated access to mutual aid
- peer-based recovery support services
- recovery check-ups and continuing care
- recovery community centres
- recovery housing
- recovery support services in educational settings
Part 3 outlines how to develop systems of care that support recovery. It will help alcohol and drug partnerships to develop and support recovery support services and lived experience initiatives. It covers:
- lived experience in local partnerships
- asset mapping, connections and gaps
- building and integrating these assets
- safe and effective lived experience initiatives
- funding and growth of lived experience initiatives.
This includes guidance on contracting lived experience initiatives.
Part 4 provides further resources, suggested reading and a glossary.
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Motiv8 on the Isle of Man on their 10 year SMART Anniversary. Our CEO is proud to work on the island as a Non-Executive Director for Manx Care.
https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/health/charity-celebrates-10-year-landmark-637390
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New Weekly SMART Recovery Meeting, Bolton