ANA
was founded in 1998 for people who have become
reliant on drugs and/or alcohol and provides
residential treatment centres in Hampshire. As part
of our philosophy of abstinence, we have developed a
toolkit to strengthen resilience and recovery capital among our diverse client group.
We developed an approach to education with a local further education provider,
Highbury College in Portsmouth – a partnership that was recognised as good
practice by the NTA in 2010 – and have been building on it since.
Over the last two years we have been working closely with the college to have
our second stage treatment programme, called our Road to Recovery course (R2R),
accredited as a qualification in its own right. It combines therapeutic inputs with a
life skills programme, delivered through a series of seminars and workshops.
As part of the course, clients are expected to complete workbooks and, although
we make provision for those who cannot or prefer not to use the written word to
express themselves, most do choose to use them. We had all of our workbooks
retyped and printed and our lecture notes and presentational aids revamped,
including power points, lesson plans and hand-outs, and put everything in
individual folders for each client to be given upon admission.
Education
14 |
drinkanddrugsnews
| February 2016
Education and training are often
discarded when substance use takes
over.
Richard Johnson
describes how
ANA’s new programme is helping
clients to reconnect
