What does recovery mean to you? How do you support someone who is in recovery?
Every September, we celebrate Recovery Month, a month dedicated to promoting new and sustainable recovery practices and treatments for people who use our service. This year, the theme, is Recovery is for everyone: Every person, every family, every community.
By strengthening our throughcare provision, we have worked with Intuitive Thinking Skills to ensure people get the highest quality in their recovery. Throughcare includes face-to-face and online courses around changing mindsets or behaviour; group support; and developing life skills.
At Change Grow Live and Intuitive Thinking Skills, we want to show people that they are not alone on their recovery journey and that there is a growing community that will guide them at every step.
Why is it important to raise awareness of recovery month?
"At Change Grow Live, we know recovery is possible, because every day, we have the privilege of hearing from people who have achieved drug- and alcohol-free lives which are full of hope and purpose. Our team of volunteers, who have lived experience of facing a drug or alcohol issue, are living proof of this.
We are all too aware that when people are alone in their addictions, without the right support and connections, their world can feel like a hopeless and lonely place.
That is why raising awareness of recovery is so important. By promoting positive stories of recovery, we will hopefully reach those people who are currently battling their challenges alone. We can give them an opportunity to see that with the right help and commitment from them, they can change their lives for the better.” – Lydia, Service Lead
By raising awareness, we are sending a message to all areas of our community that there is help, that there’s hope, that people can raise their aspirations, and that no one will ever be left behind. These messages will build on the principle that recovery is contagious. We truly believe in everybody’s ability to change; this is the Intuitive way.”
- Zack, Community Development Director
How Intuitive Thinking Skills supports people at Change Grow Live
Intuitive Thinking Skills works with Change Grow Live to deliver Intuitive Recovery and Skills-Tu Life courses across Birmingham.
Intuitive Recovery
Intuitive Recovery is a recognisable, respected and accredited educational programme that promotes simple and practical abstinence-based tools as a means to achieve better health for individuals, families and communities.
Skills-Tu Life
Skills-Tu Life is an accredited course designed to change attitudes and behaviour towards managing health conditions (both mental and physical) and not allowing them to impinge on a person's ability to function and contribute positively to society and increase the quality of their life.
This course has truly been so much more than what I hoped it would be for myself and the amazing group of people who shared their journeys with me. It has finally given me the freedom to allow myself to gradually work through negative past experiences… I am now open and empowered to live a fulfilled life and to carve my new path.” - Skills-Tu Life course participant
Intuitive Thinking Skills also offers a prescription reduction service. This helps reduce the fear and anxiety that participants may feel around reducing their script and offers effective and usable tools to help them deal with the uncomfortable feelings, urges and cravings.
How Throughcare boosts recovery
Throughcare is available and open to anyone who registers with Change Grow Live. Our Throughcare service brings together our day programme with fantastic partners, including Intuitive Thinking Skills, to offer bespoke sessions.
“The Throughcare model consists of traditional and non-traditional group sessions facilitated by internal and external partnerships to everyone entering treatment with Change Grow Live.
It provides visible support to clients, enabling them to build the tools they require to integrate back into their local communities. The model is designed to provide a diverse range of options that are tailored to people's needs.
By supporting people to address their root causes and building recovery capital and linking them back into their local communities, they can move through and exit treatment, requiring less aftercare support and maintaining their recovery”. – Bally, Team Leader of Programmes and Hospital team
We want Throughcare to be part of a person’s recovery the moment they walk into our hubs or a welcome group. We hope that Throughcare will provide the stability, peer motivation, and encouragement our clients to reach their next milestone or complete treatment. Throughcare empowers people to take ownership of their recovery and feel in control when life might feel chaotic or unpredictable.
We'd like to thank our colleagues at Intuitive Thinking Skills for helping us create a service that puts our clients first and champions recovery.
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