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Creating recovery friendly communities
Karen Biggs
Chief Executive Phoenix Futures.
Phoenix Futures
Substance misuse provider
• Residential rehabs
• Prison services
• Community provision
• Housing provider (Registered Provider)
• Includes Phoenix plus Norcas and
Foundation66 within a Group structure.
Profile
• 20,000 service users directly provided for per annum
• Over 40 year history
• 700 staff
• A focus on quality and expertise
Housing and Recovery
Do we really understand housing issues?
No solutions are wholly right or wrong
Every solution has further consequences
Addiction affects everyone, but not equally
The more socially deprived a community the higher the risk of addiction and the lower the chance of success in treatment
(Phoenix Futures service user segmentation)
Complex lives
Home
• 21% of service users reported as being homeless or in temporary homeless accommodation compared to 0.004% UK
Employment
• 6% of service users were in full-time employment, compared to the UK average of 55%
Health
• 30% of service users had a drug or alcohol related A&E visits in the last 12 months
History of care
• 25% of service users have been in care compared to 1% UK
• 36% of service users in Prison TC were previously in care
Peer pressure for good or bad?
People in areas at
greatest risk from
addiction more likely to
self assess as being
‘easily swayed by other
people’s view’
(Phoenix Futures service user segmentation)
People in areas of
high risk of addiction
more likely to believe
‘little can be done to
change their lives’
Change your environment, change your life
(Phoenix Futures service user segmentation)
The risk of isolation
“By now most of us are aware smoking, drinking too much, a poor diet and taking too little exercise is bad for us. But many of us choose to do these things anyway.
By helping people to maintain their social connections and relationships, or to make new ones, we can also help them to improve their health and ultimately reduce their chances of needing expensive medical care in later life”
Campaign to End Loneliness - Kate Jopling
Relationships
Service users report the greatest damage done to their lives by their addiction is to their relationships
Above all people value the meaningful interaction of others and most regret the damage caused to those they care about
Recovery Capital
Skills,
resources,
beliefs and
experiences
Relationships,
support
mechanisms,
commitments
Treatment, peer support,
community support, jobs
houses etc Best and Laudet(2010)
Granfield & Cloud (2008) define recovery capital as
“the breadth and depth of internal and external resources that can be drawn upon to initiate and sustain recovery from AOD [alcohol and other drug] problems”.
White and Cloud(2008):
Stable recovery best predicted on the basis of recovery assetsnot pathologies
What we know
Immediate environment matters
Community and relationships are key
Greater community recovery assets/capital reduces the risk of
addiction and increase the chance of recovery
People need to be able to change their environment to change
themselves
Recovery friendly communities
Can communities be developed for reduced risk of addiction
and improved chances of recovery?
Housing Provision
• Own provision
• Private sector
• Partnership with other Housing Associations
The Models
• The model is the process not the bricks and mortar
• Appropriate pathways that align to the changing needs of the recovery journey
Recovery Friendly
Environments
Supported Housing
Recovery Houses
Long term tenancies
Communities that support us all to be
the best that we can be
Considerations
Working together
“There’s not a single person in the world who could make this pencil” Milton Friedman
Can a single organisation
solve much more complex
problems?
Work with us
Working together we can create recovery friendly
communities