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PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN RECOVERING WOMEN & TX ORGANIZATIONS

PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN RECOVERING WOMEN & TX ORGANIZATIONS. Presented by Gloria Gonzales, CSAC Health Human Services Administrative Committee for Women Services. Topics to be Addressed. Essentials for Engaging Recovering Women into Treatment Partnerships Mentoring & Support

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PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN RECOVERING WOMEN & TX ORGANIZATIONS

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  1. PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN RECOVERING WOMEN & TX ORGANIZATIONS Presented by Gloria Gonzales, CSAC Health Human Services Administrative Committee for Women Services

  2. Topics to be Addressed • Essentials for Engaging Recovering Women into Treatment Partnerships • Mentoring & Support • Recovery Based Community Organizations Roles • The Benefits and Challenges of Integrating Recovering Women in Treatment Organizations • Recommendations for Policy & Practices Development in Partnering • Acknowledgment • Questions

  3. Essentials for Engaging Recovering Women into Treatment Partnerships • Invitations to the tables at all levels (e.g. of design, curriculums, implementation) for discussion vs. tokenism • Safety (time & voice) vs. tokenism • Mutual language • Hierarchical awareness -Valuing and sensitivity about life experiences

  4. Mentoring & Support • Professionalism vs. Co-dependency • Supporting vs. enabling • Role Reversal • Empowering

  5. Recovery Community Organizations Roles • Advocacy • Program • Policy • Research

  6. The “Benefits and Challenges” of Integrating Recovering Women • Relapse • Hierarchical • Language • Compensation for work • Financially – low cost/ training • Authenticity

  7. Recommendations for Policy & Practices Development • A standard practice for including partnerships with recovering individuals in all phases of treatments for SA, MH and trauma • Accountability for the commitment of maintaining cultural competence and gender specific services with SA, MH and trauma services • Policies that are considerate to the sensitive issues of recovering individuals that support and insinuate self care not stigma • Appropriate compensation • And the continued practice of previously mentioned suggestions whenever entering to such partnerships

  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENT • The first-hand personal experiences • The authentic knowledge they have acquired through those experiences • Their expertise of what works and what does not with SA & MH treatment • Their living testimonies that no matter how far down the scale one has gone, they will see how their experiences can benefit others

  9. ACKNOWLEDGMENT • All their often unrecognized contributions, endurance and persistence in overcoming the many barriers that are sometimes involved in partnering with treatment providers and making changes within service systems. • Their involvement with building the recovery community organizations

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