pathways to recovery jon royle ceo the bridge project
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Pathways to Recovery
Jon RoyleCEO The Bridge Project
AimTo identify the barriers between the professional community and NA and develop strategies for closer integration and cooperation resulting in increased numbers of drug users utilising NA as a resource
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Understanding the barriers
Recovery focus groups
Individual interviews
Literature review
Ethical
Ideological
Professional disempowerment
Themes
Ethical
‘I’m not referring vulnerable adults to an organisation that doesn’t run CRB checks on its members’
‘People who’ve gone to NA have been psychologically damaged’
Ideological
‘NA is a cult’
‘It’s a religious organisation’
‘Spirituality, 12 step programmes, what’s that, it sounds strange’
‘They’re not professional’
‘There is no liaison from NA’
‘Its difficult to accept their claims of success’
Professional Disempowerment
Positive comments
‘I’m in 12 step recovery – don’t tell my colleagues!’
‘I refer clients to NA’
‘I don’t know much about them – but I want to learn’
Resistance
Not referring clients to NA
Presenting ideological/professional arguments against NA e.g. Literature is Americanised
Discouraging/disparaging attendance
Removing literature
Formulation of attitudes
Few workers attended NA meeting
Negative client feedback loop
Pathways to Recovery
‘The 4 Step Programme’
Solution:
Step 1: Leadership
Steering Group
Recovery Champions
Step 2: Raise Awareness
Training
NA presentations
NA attendance for staff
Step 3: Build Links
In-house NA meetings
NA literature
Recovery cafe
Step 4: Evaluate
Baseline assessment staff attitudes
Repeat assessment post training
Number of referrals to NA
Growth in recovery communities
Conclusions
Talk about recovery
Staff are ready for change
Decide what you’re going to do about it