hello here is our charity number Registered Charity Number: 1100354, and a brief summery of what our charity aims at, thank you for the reply.
AIMS
To support ‘visible recovery’ within Oxfordshire, promoting progression through treatment and promoting eventual exit from treatment, to service users
To assist individuals to build their personal strengths and recovery capital, including social capital and networks, during the clinical phase of their treatment, to ensure they move from their current treatment state to their desired treatment state with all areas of their ‘Recovery Capital’ covered and catered for
To make available support and social activates to the service user group to enhance their life chances and sustainable recovery chances
To provide educational courses on re building health and wellbeing after addiction, courses will be classroom and sport based
To provide a cheap healthy ‘smoothie’ shop for local residents of East Oxford, with profits going back into the Network to fund activities to promote health and wellbeing (this will also provide skills as well as voluntary and paid work
To ensure service users are able to voice their opinion on topical issues that affect their treatment and their chances of gaining and sustaining recovery
To challenge the stigma associated with substance misuse held within the local community
The ORN will be based upon the following prinicples (aligned with those of the UK Recovery Federation);
1. Recovery lies within individuals, families and communities and is self directed and empowering.
2. Recovery lies within our ‘connectedness’ to others, is holistic and has many cultural dimensions.
3. Recovery is supported by peers, families and allies within communities.
4. Recovery involves the personal, cultural and structural recognition of the need for participative change, transformation and the building of recovery capital.
5. Recovery involves a continual process of change and self-redefinition for individuals, families, organisations and communities.
6. Recovery challenges all discrimination and transcends shame and stigma.
7. Recovery emerges from hope, gratitude, love and service to others.
8. There are many pathways to Recovery and no individual, community or organisation has the right to claim ownership of the ‘right pathway’, ORN covers those taking both the abstinent and the medically assisted treatment/therapy routes to recovery
9. Recovery exists on a continuum of improved health and well-being.
10. Recovery transcends, whilst embracing, harm reduction and abstinence based approaches and does not seek to be prescriptive.
11. Honesty, self-awareness and openness lie at the heart of Recovery.
12. Recovery is a reality and contagious.
How will this be achieved?
• By offering a service user, at the point of their first engagement, the option to draw up a recovery capital plan (RCP) to bring to life the reality of recovery and reintegration, for them as individuals (physically at ORN and/or within services that ORN promote)
• To offer affordable and realistic access to local services/groups/activities that assist the individual to reach the goals identified in their RCP
• To train and provide space to Recovery Champions, who can be called upon to mentor those wishing to make steps in their recovery and move onto to reintegration
• To offer full information and assistance to access all of the areas of the community that service users need access to, to enable them to fully reintegrate back into society, becoming active citizens
• Empowering service users to engage in ‘Recovery Actions’ that suit their needs, wants and aspirations
• Provide a bank of ‘Recovery Champions’ that are on hand during admission and induction to treatment, detoxification and throughout the rehabilitation process , to ensure service users can build their Recovery Capital from the outset
