Recovery Capital

The Recovery Capital project set out to provide the space for individuals at any stage in their recovery to come together to meet other people in recovery; chat about life; and get creative.

In this short film you will see some of the great outputs, but more importantly, hear from the participants themselves.

Project related documents:

1. Recovery Capital Project Overview
2. The Potential of Recovery Capital
3. National Drug Strategy 2010
4. Interest Group Workshop Slides - January 2011

Why focus on Recovery Capital?
As a concept, recovery capital helps to better understand the different capacities of people to start and sustain recovery from serious alcohol and drug misuse and the problems related to it. It is increasingly accepted that those people who  have access to recovery capital are in a much better position to do this than those people who do not.

The Recovery Capital Project, Peterborough
We want to put recovery capital into practice to better understand how it can be use to enhance the capacity of individuals to overcome substance misuse and related problems.

The people featured in this short video were speakers and participants at the second Recovery Capital expert seminar at the end of May 2011. This seminar was held in partnership with NTA East and brought together more than 70 Recovery Champions from across the east of England and focussed on understanding the recovery capital concept in pratice.

How do you identify recovery capital?

How do you work with recovery capital?

How do you strengthen recovery capital?

The seminar focussed primarily on the role of Recovery Champions - Strategic, Operational and Community - in developing good quality and accessible recovery capital in their local areas. A report will follow shortly.

The first expert seminar focussed on the concept of recovery capital and resulted in the paper 'The Potential of Recovery Capital'.

The following film shows the results of the day and the projects to be taken forward in the various regions of east England.  

The Recovery Champion Expert Symposium earlier this year (May) had four key aims:

1.  To understand how ‘recovery capital’ can be identified using existing tools and methods. To understand how to identify where the gaps exist and where resources should be targeted in specific contexts.

2.  To understand how a range of stakeholders (at the 3 Recovery Champion levels) can work with exiting recovery capital.

3.  To understand how to strengthen or build new recovery capital in specific contexts.

4.  To generate a series of innovative and practical ideas that can be piloted by event participants between this event and the next, which were launched during Recovery Week in June.