Recovery Support

The range of services, programmes, and community resources that help individuals sustain recovery and improve their health, wellbeing, and quality of life after or alongside treatment for substance use disorders. These supports may include peer support, recovery coaching, mutual-help groups, housing assistance, employment services, family support, and community-based recovery programmes. Recovery support recognises that recovery is an ongoing process and that long-term wellbeing often requires continued social, practical, and emotional support. By strengthening personal resilience, social connections, and opportunities for reintegration, recovery support plays an important role in comprehensive responses to substance use. 

STANDING IN THE GAP: MY TESTIMONY ON SUICIDE PREVENTION.

Opinion piece, commentary
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STANDING IN THE GAP: MY TESTIMONY ON SUICIDE PREVENTION. Over the years of walking with teenagers and young people, I have come face to face with the silent battles they fight every day. Behind bright smiles and youthful energy, many are...
Passionately doing demand reduction and prevention

STRETCHING FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY

Opinion piece, commentary
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Stretching can become a grounding ritual, replacing harmful habits with healing ones as it triggers the release of endorphins and serotonin. These natural feel-good chemicals elevate mood and reduce anxiety. Stretching as part of a broader...
Full-body stretching, during and after exercise, activates the parasympathetic nervous system, increases feel good hormones, lowers cortisol, and enhances emotional regulation

Supporting children affected by the substance use of a parent or sibling

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Online

Delivered by a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, this two-day course explores the effects of substance use in the family on children, and how to support them. The course covers both direct support for children and young people, and how to support non-substance using parents or other adults to support children appropriately