A new body of recovery community knowledge and experience is evolving
from the Recovery Community Services Program. Models of peer service
are emerging that enable peers in recovery to meet service needs
identified by people seeking and sustaining recovery.
Now at various stages of development, grant projects are engaged
in:
Mentoring peers in recovery processes
Creating and leading recovery learning circles and other
peer-directed adult recovery learning activities
Providing concrete assistance in obtaining housing, employment,
and/or education
Conducting alcohol- and drug-free social activities to
share community and celebrate recovery.
These peer-based activities are creating a new language and new
definitions, as well as new services. Recovering people are developing
a language to define the recovery community itself, and the new terms
are finding their way into the lexicon of addiction services.
"The
recovery community is a key player in the addiction,
treatment, and recovery fields. RCSP projects have
an opportunity to pave the way to concrete improvements
in the systems serving people addicted to alcohol and
other drugs. This is an exciting time."
