11 Dec Addiction Recovery pres - Academy for Justice Commissioning

Evening Seminar
Addiction & Recovery to Reduce
Offending
Peter Sheath
Associate
Emerging Futures
11 December, 2014
TTG
Recovery Coaching &
Assertive Linkage Pilot
David Ryan & Peter Sheath Emerging Futures
Our History
• Emerging Horizons formed to make a difference in May 2011
• Authors of Foundations of Recovery: CRI 2011
• Asset based approach & workforce re‐orientation: NHS Trusts, service user groups & voluntary sector providers 2011
• Authors of Peer Mentor Programme: Turning Point 2012
• Over 2,500 staff, Champions, Mentors & Coaches trained
• Accredited training centre: LASER Learning (formerly OCN)
• 1st UK accredited Recovery Coaching Model developed 2013
• Emerging Futures CIC formed to guide best practice 2014
Emerging Futures aims to enable and facilitate individuals to unleash their inherent capacity, creativity, compassion and expertise to build the lives and communities that stand for the core values that they hold most dear. We believe that with appreciation, belief, connection, curiosity and opportunity that individuals, groups and communities will move towards ever greater levels of autonomy & wellbeing bringing about local innovation, enterprise and improved civic functioning.
Together the passionate ones will make a difference!
Strategic Support for the TTG
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Long arm support for TTG providers across the NW
Co‐ordination and sharing of resources Capture and dissemination of good working practice
Lead providers for Greater Manchester & Cheshire
Accredited coach training & helpline services NW
• Capture of Emerging Learning:
• Development of ABCD Model:
Service Components
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Pre release engagement strategies
Release planning and gate escort
Seamless transition custody community
The 24 hour window of opportunity
Assertive linkage to mutual aid & accommodation Whole family and friend network approach
Coaches recruited from recovery communities who are expert by experience!
The Recovery Coach
Legitimacy Through:
experiential knowledge
experiential expertise
wounded healer
A RECOVERY COACH IS NOT
Priest
Counsellor
Partner
Sponsor
Nurse
Parent
The Roles of the RC
Listener
Peer
Mentor
Mirror
Advocate
Consultant
Warrior Down – Support Line
‘…I am finding out a great deal about myself. I am making new relationships and living in a world totally unknown to me. I love it yet there are times when I hate it. I am torn between two worlds – alienated from the old one and a stranger in this new one’
(Jimmy Boyle 1985) The Redemption Script
Re‐biography
Changing identities (narratives)
Someone ‘believing in’ the offender... Hope
Agency: discovered and exercised Social capital (opportunities) Human capital (capacities/skills)
Redemption or restoration (de‐labelling) Finding purpose ‐ generative activities Constructive reparation Loneliness Is Deadly. Social isolation kills more people than obesity and smoking does; and it’s just as stigmatized.
Mutual Aid
“Mutual aid groups (sometimes known as self‐help or peer support groups) provide non‐professional support to those who identify as sharing a similar problem. Members of mutual aid groups both give and receive support in regular group meetings that supplements or replaces the support offered by professional services.
Mutual aid groups are independent, self‐governing and institutionally autonomous; they may be local and unaffiliated, or part of a larger organisation (e.g. 12‐step groups). Mutual aid groups do not provide treatment.”
Stephen Bamber, Recovery Writing Volume I
Recovery Coach Training
• Boundaries & Risk (assessment & management)
• The role of a recovery coach & the helping relationship
• Maintaining personal recovery
• Communication skills
• Goal setting & getting
• Supporting motivation & commitment
• Promoting health & wellbeing
• Relapse prevention & recovery check ups
Requirements
• Walking the talk – You’re recovery must come first
• Commitment – 5 days training and ongoing fortnightly supervision plus coaching
• Able to support diverse recovery routes
• Able to convert experience into expertise
• Willing to use coaching skills
Asset Based Community Development
• Our aim is to underpin the whole TTG model with the ethos, theory and practice of ABCD and leave a lasting sustainable legacy
• Nurture development providing the NW pilot area with guidance, advice and training
• Providing opportunities to host partnership training events across the NW pilot area
ABCD Training ‐ Warrington 22nd & 23rd June
Measuring Success
• No’s engaged pre‐release and on the gate
• No’s engaged in abstinence based treatment/accommodation.
• No’s affiliating with Mutual Aid groups
• Outcomes for prisoner’s families; including children
• No’s engaging in employment, enterprise, education, training and vocational activities.
• No’s of ex‐offenders becoming: recovery coaches, mentors, community builders and social entrepreneurs.
• No’s abstinent from illicit drugs and crime at 6 and 12 months
• Improvements in the wellbeing of coaches and ex‐offenders
Service Components
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Pre release engagement strategies
Release planning and gate escort
Seamless transition custody community
The 24 hour window of opportunity
Assertive linkage to Mutual Aid
Assertive linkage to safe accommodation Whole family and friend network approach
Coaches – experts by experience
Thank you
Questions ?