2. What is SMART Recovery?
Abstinence oriented recovery organisation,
based on peer led mutual aid
Uses tools from REBT, CBT, Motivation
Interviewing, Cycle of Change
Secular, science based alternative to AA / NA
Peer led meetings are at the heart of SMART
Recovery, but Partnership is a win-win!
3. Training
~ 20 hour on-line learning
and / or face to face course with WayPoint
4. Organic growth
Peers attend meetings
Co-facilitate
Do training
Start own meetings
It works, slowly...
5. Why it matters to treatment
Encourage mutual aid
Improve treatment outcomes
Align with Commissioning priorities
6. Partnership Scheme
Staff train as ‘SMART Recovery Champions’
– Initiate / kick-start meetings
– Tutor clients in SMART Tools
– Integrate SMART Recovery into their own
programme
– Encourage service users to become facilitators
7. SMART Partnership
Treatment
Within treatment SMART Recovery interventions
Champions introduce SMART Recovery to the service
8. SMART Partnership
Treatment Peer led SMART meetings
Within treatment SMART Recovery interventions
Kick starting meetings in the local community
10. Progress
Rapid spread of peer led meetings
Rapid spread of partnership scheme
– Over 80 treatment providers are signed up
– > 250 partnership sites
– Eight DAT / ADP whole area partnerships
11. Questions
Richard Phillips
Director
rphillips@smartrecovery.org.uk