Measuring Recovery and Recovery Community Development

1. Measuring Recovery and Recovery Community Development

2. Why bother?

3. Medical model Validity Standardisation Specific measures Evidence based interventions

4. “The Power of Recovery” (Personal communication with Phillip Valentine, Executive Director, CCAR, Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery) “5 years+ In recovery” “Long Term Recovery” “Better than well” “Model citizens” Potential “Early Recovery” Time

6. Logic models and theory of change… Whatever works

7. Pull Push Potential Time

8. Individual Community

9. Not a hierarchy • Not linear progression • Multiple dependencies • Multiple variables • Interlinked indicators

11. Low self management Higher self awareness Moved back in with supportive parents Benefits eligibility Reduced self harm Diet and exercise obsession Isolated and withdrawn Rebuild relationships with parents Friendships Volunteering, finds a passion Happy Community participation Sense of belonging

12. Improved self management Skills to help others’ recovery Benefits appeals Health literacy Befriending newcomers Learning, new opportunities Community leadership

13. Tools • Recovery journeys • Personal goals and progress • Scales • Logs, worker recording • Environmental monitoring • Community mapping

14. Think about context Interventions of other services Commissioning cycle of other services Welfare Reform Mutual aid

15. 3 year commissioning cycle…… “5 years+ In recovery” Potential Time

16. Recovery Community Development • Not a service • Not an intervention • Long term engagement is desirable • Based on what people gain and give back • Can be encouraged and nurtured by professionals but not created by them

17. To boldly go… Community level • Action research • Total reporting In treatment • Treatment –long term outcomes • Monitor recycling Health Board / ADP level • Outcomes viewed from the best vantage point • How the recovery system is knitted together