virgil boysaw and sue jenkins, presenters. seeks to support recovery and wellness for all community...
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Virgil Boysaw and Sue Jenkins, Presenters
Seeks to support recovery and wellness for all community members affected by substance misuse, not just those who participate in treatment
Seeks to intervene earlier in the disease process to prevent or mitigate co-morbidity and complications that worsen as disease progresses
Seeks to support sustained recovery
Active Relationship with Community“The community, not treatment, is the agent of recovery”
Advocacy ▪ Confront AOD promotional forces in the local community▪ Promote pro-recovery policies
Recovery resource development▪ Recovery community centers▪ Alternative peer recovery support groups
Stigma reduction efforts
Many of the same interventions Support prevention of substance use, Support prevention of substance misuse,
and Support recovery from substance use
disorders
Environmental Strategies Limit availability of substances Social norms marketing/campaigns
Promote alternative activities that do not include substance use
Education – stigma reductionProblem Identification and referralCommunity Mobilization
Create communities in which people have a quality life including healthy environments at work and in school; supportive communities and
neighborhoods; connection to families and friends and an environment which is free of alcohol,
tobacco, and other drugs and crime free
(SAMHSA/CSAP, 2006)
Factors causing loss of sustained recovery
Factors lessening wellness
Factors leading to use of substances
Focus is on building resiliency The strength individuals and
communities attain by reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors
Rather than addressing a single problem or condition, it simultaneously considers a potential wide-ranging set of ATOD-involved problems
Community Risk Factors Availability of Drugs Community Laws and Norms favorable toward drug use
Individual Risk Factors Friends who engage in the problem behavior
Family Risk Factors Family history of the problem behavior Family management problems Family conflict Favorable parental attitudes and involvement in the problem behavior
Rather than focusing on individuals at risk, it studies the entire community
Rather than basing prevention strategies on single assumptions about deterministic behavior, it employs interventions that alter the social, cultural, economic and physical environment in such a way as to promote shifts away from conditions that favor the occurrence of ATOD- involved problems.
(Holder, 1998)
Stigma reduction - community education
Promotion of pro-recovery policiesEnvironmental Strategies
Limiting availabilitySocial Norming
Special Report A Unified Vision for the Prevention and
Management of Substance Use Disorders: Building Resiliency, Wellness and Recovery – A Shift from an Acute Care to Sustained Care Recovery Management Model
Complied by: Michael T. Flaherty, PhD Institute for Research, Education and
training in Addictions (IRETA)