Building a Culture of Recovery:

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• Building a Culture of Recovery
• In Central East Ontario

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• Our societys self congratulatory belief
• that we are free thinking and fair
• people, who hold all citizens equal and
• worthy, must be challenged. Our
• society considers people with mental
• health problems and substance abuse
• as defective, disabled, or disordered,
• despite that these labels perpetuate
• Discrimination and are a barrier to
• recovery.

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• .Building a Culture of Recovery
• is a project that proposes values
• and principles consistent with
• recovery
• autonomy and empowerment
• building hope
• learning to think and live from a position of
  wellness, not illness.

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• Our Vision for A Culture of Recovery

Like Minds Peer Support Education
Recovery Clearing House
Conference Presentations Publications
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Principles of Recovery

• Wellness and hope
• Real and autonomous choice
• Anti-oppression and anti-discrimination
• Leadership and education
• Social Justice and advocacy
• Critique and re-balancing power redefining
  through language.

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Like Minds Peer Support Education

• Peer Designed
• Peer Delivered
• Peer Evaluated
• 4 day curriculum revised with consultation with
  Shery Mead!

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Participants report

• Like Minds Peer Support Education is an
• effective educational strategy that raised
• awareness and provided a framework to
• debate and prepare to advocate a shift in
• the balance of power.
• They report an increase in their experience of
• capacity and engagement.

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• AND..
• Participants not only identified
• the need for radical change to beliefs and
  attitude, as well as radical change to the mental
  health and addiction infrastructure and system
• They also wanted to do it!

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Recovery Education for Allies Building
Supporting Recovery Orientation for Clinical
Services

• The Culture of Recovery (www,cultureofrecovery.org
  ) project advances
• an agenda for change to systems as well as for
  people experiencing
• mental health problems and substance abuse. The
  Culture of Recovery
• project intends to form a new set of values and
  principles consistent
• with a recovery perspective autonomy and
  empowerment building hope
• and living from a position of wellness not
  illness.
• Recovery Education for Allies builds on
  investments in education for
• people in recovery and public education.

Please plan to attend this one day education
session for Allies who plan for, lead/manage
and deliver clinical services!
Autonomy choice hope wellness empowerment
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Available at the Resource Table!!!!
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WRAP stands for Wellness Recovery Action Plan.

• WRAP is a self-help program that supports people,
  ideally in a group setting to reflect and become
  more aware of their strengths, abilities and
  resources to be well. Our project adopted WRAP
  as a cornerstone to building recovery awareness
  and capacity.

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Wellness Recovery Action PlanParticipant
Evaluation

• 44 reflected about their experience during
• and following the program including
• anecdotal reflections regarding the program
• delivery as well as the personal impact
• experienced as a result of participation in
• the program.

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The five key areas for consideration were

• Are you more aware of your strengths
• Do you feel better able to manage your distress
  and you risk
• Do you experience more hope
• Do you experience more social comfort
• Do you understand more about recovery

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WRAP Evaluation
An overwhelming number of participants assessed
excellence in program peer leadership (91) and
program materials (86). Overall, participants
reported a collective 21 improvement on all
measures. The most substantial improvements are
noted in the areas of realizing hope (26) and
understanding the recovery perspective (31.4).

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The significant increase in the participants
understanding of recovery and realization of
hope suggests a cumulative learning effect.
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• Participants describe that increased awareness of
  stressors and signs of distress led to proactive
  and preventive alternative behaviours and
  thinking. They indicate that these changes have
  in turn raised tolerance of distress as well as
  confidence levels in recognizing and responding
  to distress.

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• Finally, WRAP education has shifted the
  perspective of most participants to accept
  recovery as a journey toward wellness. Adjusting
  how they define their experiences using recovery
  language has shifted understandings about
  personal comfort and responsibility and has
  resulted in more confidence in being well.

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• The Journal of Ethics in Mental Health is an
  international,
• peer-reviewed, web-based journal, available free
  on-line
• worldwide.
• Building a Culture of Recovery April 2008
• http//65.39.131.180/ContentPage.aspx?nameJournal
  20of20Ethics20and20Mental20Health
• OR google JEMH