"Can Recovery Go Up as Funding Goes Down?" MARK GILMAN DISCOVERING HEALTH
YES...
BUT... WE DONT MEASURE RECOVERY... WE MEASURE TREATMENT EXITS... ‘SUCCESSFUL COMPLETIONS’
AND... leaving treatment might have nothing to do with recovery at all
Remember... The treatment system was not designed to get people through and out...
“Don't try to understand 'em just rope and throw and brand 'em”
Treatment as the Bermuda Triangle
Community Recovery Land Is there a bridge? Is it busy? Does it matter? Treatment Service Land Are they different lands completely?
Pyramid of Treatment Power Circle of Recovery Cooperation
The circle holds the pyramid to account Professionals ON TAP Never ON TOP
How Recovery works: Adam T Los Angeles CONTRIBUTE BELONG LEARN
“12 Step Fellowships – AA, NA, CA, DAA?” “Our clients don’t like it, they won’t go…” “12 step is not for everyone…” “There are many pathways to recovery... (but none of them go to 12 step from here!)” CPTI
This = This Recovery? Nah!
Misery Loves Company
WORKFORCE Transformed people, transform people Can’t give away what you haven't got Treat yourself first Recognise our own ‘recovery experiences ( e.g. bereavement, divorce, stopping smoking, weight loss…) We want people to change their behaviour, will we change ours?
Community Recovery Land TREATMENT PATIENTS CLIENTS SERVICE USERS FORMS TO FILL IN EVIDENCE = NUMBERS ACCESS RETENTION COMPLETION RECOVERY PEOPLE COLLEAGUES FRIENDS CUP OF TEA (& A HUG?) STORIES = EVIDENCE JOBS HOMES FRIENDS
Treatment Institutions OBJECTIFICATION ARTIFICAL TARGETS MASSAGED FIGURES MANAGEMENT SPEAK Recovery Communities LOVE EXPERIENCE STRENGTH HOPE “I am not a number”
Jobs, friends, houses
“The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it is human connection”
US and THEM US THEM
WE, TOGETHER IN COMMUNITY RECOVERY LAND
Community Recovery Land The future? Treatment Service Land