Transcript Sunshine Recovery Caf&#233

Sunshine Recovery
Café
Rowan Anderson
Renfrewshire ADP
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Renfrewshire Alcohol
Drug Partnership
established in 2009
Brought partner agencies
together formally
Brought Drugs & Alcohol
together
Responsible for
addressing alcohol and
drug issues
Services
Prevalence
Recovery
CAPSM
Renfrewshire
ADP
Health
Local
Environment
Community
Safety
Service User Network (SUN)
Community
Planning
Partnership
Renfrewshire ADP
Joint Finance Group
SPEAR
Addictions Operational
Planning Group
Service User Network
Drug Deaths
Group
Pilot Phase
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Convincing
Stakeholders
Securing Funding
Sourcing Venue
Learning from others
Being a legitimate
business…
What would the Café be?
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Somewhere people can come and talk in confidence
A safe place for addicts to come. A place where you can seek help and
other services
Warm & Friendly place to be able to come and chat. A place to come and
know that you are not alone – similar issues
To meet people of the same frame of mind, in recovery or through recovery
and clean!
A safe, calm meeting place for people in recovery and perhaps run
computer classes, health and wellbeing access to services
For people to be able to open up and discuss issues without feeling
embarrassed.
Someone listening, counselling, support.
I would like the recovery café to be a place where I can meet people in the
same boat as me
Social Enterprise Model
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Volunteer Run
Constituted body
Shared responsibility
Personal investment
‘Giving back’
Ownership
Advertising
Growing Opportunities…
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Volunteering in Cafe
College
Food Hygiene
Employability
Holistic Therapist
Money Advice
Share Group
Guitar Group
Evenings
The un-measurable impact
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Friendships created
Impact on social
isolation
Confidence building
Recovery education
Sense of belonging
Nutrition
Partnership Working
Willingness of organisations to support the
Café
 Staff support
 Community support
 Positivity that surrounds the project
 COSLA award nomination
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“The Power of Recovery”
(Personal communication with Phillip Valentine, Executive
Director, CCAR, Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery)
“5 years+
In recovery”
“Recovering People”
Potential
“Normal
People”
“Early Recovery”
Time
“Long Term Recovery”
“Better than well”
“A grateful
addict/alcoholic”
“Model citizens”