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Building Culturally specific, Strength-based Re-Entry Recovery Environments

Building Culturally specific, Strength-based Re-Entry Recovery Environments. Rod Robinson, MA LAT MAC CornerStone Consultants & Strength-Based Solutions Group. Successful Re-Entry. Community = Assurance of Safety Service Provider = Opportunity - Plan

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Building Culturally specific, Strength-based Re-Entry Recovery Environments

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  1. Building Culturally specific, Strength-based Re-Entry Recovery Environments Rod Robinson, MA LAT MAC CornerStone Consultants & Strength-Based Solutions Group

  2. Successful Re-Entry • Community = Assurance of Safety • Service Provider = Opportunity - Plan • Offender = Accountability - Action via Honesty, Openness and Willingness

  3. Both challenge and opportunity. The challenge today is to capture the opportunity to form active community-based partnerships that teach clients how to create a sustainable recovery/healing environment that embraces the best of their culture, customs and a support structure of choice.

  4. Empowering people by planning for Mission-Based Change. • Know what we want to achieve. • Know what the consumer wants to achieve. • Build protocols and a data system that tracks successful change behavior @ the onset, not as an after-thought. • Stay open to quality changes that meet community safety needs instead of simply the program’s funding need.

  5. Catalysts for lasting Change? • Client factors (40%) of change exists within the client’s current environment. Extra-therapeutic. • Relationship factors (30%) the connection between client and staff. Therapeutic alliance • Hope and expectancy (15% ) for change comes from engaging with a person’s desire for a better future. • Model/technique (15%) of change relies on what we do in treatment, i.e. assembly line or person-centered care? - M.Hubble, B. Duncan, S.Miller “The Heart and Soul of Change” What would this Change model look like?

  6. Comprehensive Recovery Oriented System Coordination Justice Systems of Care Addiction Services System Child and Family Services Social Services Services & Supports Mental Health System Family/Child Care Alcohol/Drug Treatment Education System Vocational Personal Data Repository Educational Primary Care System Housing System PTSD & Mental Health Housing and Transportation Health Care Faith Community HIV Services Spiritual Vocational Services Tribal Health Services Financial Teaching of Cultural Values Peer Supported Case Mgt Interface with Justice System Safety Wellness Traditional Elders and Teachers

  7. Developing Recovery Partnerships “Empowering the Change Process”

  8. What to look for in a Partnership • Perspective- able to identify the real issue(s). • Passion- belief that serving is worth the effort. • Professionalism- giving our best effort. • Principled- willing to do only what is right. • Priority- giving the mission my commitment. • Persistence - willing to go the distance. • Performance - willing to measure the effectiveness of my efforts.

  9. Willing to risk newideas that help people achieve sustained change. Develop a Team of Change Agents who share a common vision for success. Willing to encourage and challenge change issues using MI. Willing to challenge systems to change, Barriers Inventory. Work in partnership with Client to achieve a common mission, how can we help you to help yourself? Primary Elements to Partnering

  10. What do system partnerships offer those we serve? • Hope - for a better life. • Faith - that together we will help them to find the right path(s). • Courage - to continue on no matter what. • Trust - in ourselves and others. • Honesty - willingness to take responsibility for our actions in order to find solutions.

  11. Deficit-vs- Strengths Approach • Lack of Identity A Sense of Belonging • Feeling Less Than Feeling Valued • Humiliation Gain Respect for Self • Feeling Judged Stand as an Equal • Being Forced Decide for Ourselves • Irresponsible Caring for Others • Distrust Learn how to surrender

  12. Fear - of what others will think. Hopelessness - that a better life is for someone else. Emptiness - not knowing where I belong. Selfishness - thinking only of me and mine. Self Pity - giving up on myself and others Generational Shame - being ashamed of who I am instead of what I have done. Challenges/Barriers to Change

  13. Help move Barriers to change • Listen to me, rather than simply assess me. • Guide me, but don’t fix me. • Allow healing time, instead of simply stabilizing the situation and moving on. • Point out what is right in me before you point to what is wrong. • Access the training and tools to more effectively empower the Change Process.

  14. Cultural Considerations... • Respect - the need to return to honoring ourselves, others and our history. • Humility - understand that we have a part to play in deciding what path to follow. • Truth - seeking it, believing it and living it in our daily lives. • Wisdom - understand that we must use the gifts we have been given to benefit others so that we honor our creator and culture.

  15. Where do we go from here?

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