Transcript What is a Recovery Community Center

What is a Recovery
Community Center (RCC)?
Community-and-peer-based solutions for
addiction recovery
Presented by Dean LeMire, Person in Long-Term Recovery
Connecticut Community for
Addiction Recovery (CCAR)
Core Principles:
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You are in recovery if you say you are
There are many pathways to recovery
Focus on the recovery potential, not the pathology
Err on the side of the recoveree
Err on the side of being generous
“Meet them where they’re at.”
What is an RCC?
Sanctuary anchored in the heart of the community where the recovery community can
organize, socialize, learn from each other and help others maintain and sustain their recovery
Place where Peer-to-Peer Recovery Support Services are delivered
Services are designed, tailored, and delivered by the local community
Volunteer Management System – including people in long-term, sustained recovery
People in recovery can come and feel safe, to be with others in recovery, and help the next
person coming in the door
Portal to other community-based services
What is an RCC not?
• Treatment agency – no clinical services are
provided
• 12-Step club
• Place for people to hang out, watch TV, play
cards/pool
• Soup kitchen
Whom does an RCC serve?
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Individuals in treatment
Youth in recovery
Persons in 12-step recovery
Identified individuals within the
Criminal Justice System
Individuals enrolled in Drug Court
People with co-occurring mental
disorders
People experiencing
homelessness/SUD
Veterans
Families impacted by alcohol and
drug abuse
“Rite of Passage” ceremony, Strafford
County Drug Court
The Recovery Community Center
The Recover Project, Greenfield, MA.
A Model RCC:
What are Recovery Support Services?
Basic array
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All-Recovery Meetings (ARM)
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Telephone Recovery Support
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Recovery Coaching
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Family Support Groups
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Recovery Training Series
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Resources
Why Recovery Support Services?
● More people achieving long-term recovery
● Reduced relapse rates
● Shortened duration of relapse if it occurs
● Better quality of life for people with substance use disorder
● Reduction in the use of more costly inpatient and outpatient treatment
● Better mental health functioning
● Reduced legal issues
● Decreased homelessness
● Improved physical health and reduced hospitalizations
(Laudet, Morgen, White, 2006; Brennan & Moos, 1990; Nelson, 1992; Gonzalez, 2009; Boisvert, Martin, Grosek, Clarie, 2008; Flynn, Joe, Broome, Simpson,
Brown, 2003; Gosnold YAOP Report 2014)
All Recovery Meetings (ARM)
• Open to all
affected by SUD
• Not a program;
group support only
Telephone Recovery Support
• Volunteers will call “recoverees” regularly
for at least 12 weeks to offer support and
help them maintain their recovery
• Volunteers – Great way to give back to
recovery community, may support their
own recovery
• Recoverees – Receive support in their
recovery, feel connected + cared for
(esp. if mobility is an issue)
Outcome data gathered by CCAR shows that telephone recovery support is
highly effective, especially when it comes to relapse. In a recent sample of
483 individuals who received calls for 12 weeks, 58 self-reported they were
no longer in recovery. Out of those 58, all of whom continued to receive
telephone recovery support from CCAR, 42 later reported they were back in
recovery (72%).
Recovery Coaching
What are Recovery Coaches?
Recovery coaches are individuals, usually with lived experience of addiction
and recovery, who help “recoverees” along the path of recovery— before,
during, after, and instead of treatment.
“A recovery coach is a non-clinical person who helps remove personal and
environmental obstacles to recovery, links the newly recovering person to the
recovery community, and serves as a personal guide and mentor in the
management of personal and family recovery. Such supports generated
through mobilizing peer based volunteer resources within the recovery
community, or provided by the recovery coach where such natural support
networks are lacking” (William White, 2002).
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Accountability
Encouragement
Goal-setting
Min. power differential
No agenda
No judgment
www.WilliamWhitePapers.com
Payment for peer recovery services
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Volunteer (no payment)
Medicaid
Private Insurance
Private service providers (i.e. hospitals, detoxes,
rehabs)
Study in Cape Cod, MA compared 54 young opiate users enrolled in
Recovery Coach program for 3-12 months with outcomes of a studied
group from prior year, before recovery coaching was available.
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Tripled their days in recovery
Reduced detox admissions by 40%
Reduced relapse episodes from 210 days to 3 days (down 6900% )
Reduced hospitalizations from 16 to 3 (down 433% )
Eliminated legal issues from 26 to ZERO
Family Support
• Education
• Referral
resources
• Peer-to-peer
support
• Advocacy
Recovery Training Series
• Recovery Coach Academy
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Ethics, Training of Trainers
• Recovery Advocacy Trainings
• “Our Stories Have Power” workshop
• “What is an RCO?” workshop
The Birth of a Recovery Movement
https://vimeo.com/89777865
What’s next?
Tuesday, Sept. 29
6:00pm-9:00pm
•Safe Harbor Recovery
Center (Ports)
Fundraiser/Screening of
The Anonymous People
•3S Artspace
•319 Vaughn Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Friday, Oct. 16 8:30am10:00am
•Prevention, Treatment,
Recovery Roundtable
•2nd Floor Kitchen
Goodwin Community
Health
January TBA
• Recovery Coach
Academy
• 5 Days
• 70 hours toward CRSW
• McConnell Center,
Dover
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