Recovery in our Communities

NTA National Residential Rehabilitation Event

Karen BiggsPhoenix Futures

29th March 2011

Recovery in our Communities

A range of Residential provision

• Therapeutic Communities – 5 Adult services– 2 Family Residential services – T.C model

• Locally commissioned services – Park House, Birmingham

• Womens Service – Portland House, Nottingham

• Recovery in Prison 4 Therapeutic Communities in Prison

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Our Service Users

• Average age = 35

• Using Heroin for on average 15 years

• 29% are women compared to 32% of the drug taking population

• 59% of our service users have children

• 52% have no qualifications on entry to treatment

• 66% are unemployed

• 21% are long term sick

Recovery in our Communities

Our range of Residential Provision

• Therapeutic Communities – 5 Adult services– 2 Family Residential services – T.C model

• Locally commissioned services – Park House, Birmingham

• Womens Service – Portland House, Nottingham

• Recovery in Prison 4 Therapeutic Communities in Prison

Recovery in our Communities

Adult Therapeutic Communities

• National provision - local focus

• Cost Effective

• Flexible and responsive

• Recovery post residential treatment

Recovery in our Communities

Our range of Residential provision

• Therapeutic Communities – 5 Adult services– 2 Family Residential services – T.C model

• Locally commissioned services – Park House, Birmingham

• Womens Service – Portland House, Nottingham

• Recovery in Prison 4 Therapeutic Communities in Prison

Recovery in our Communities

Our range of Residential provision

• Therapeutic Communities – 5 Adult services– 2 Family Residential services – T.C model

• Locally commissioned services – Park House, Birmingham

• Womens Service – Portland House, Nottingham

• Recovery in Prison 4 Therapeutic Communities in Prison

Recovery in our Communities

Our range of Residential provision

• Therapeutic Communities – 5 Adult services– 2 Family Residential services – T.C model

• Locally commissioned services – Park House, Birmingham

• Womens Service – Portland House, Nottingham

• Recovery in Prison 4 Therapeutic Communities in Prison

Recovery in our Communities

A range of Residential provision

• Therapeutic Communities – 5 Adult services– 2 Family Residential services – T.C model

• Locally commissioned services – Park House, Birmingham

• Womens Service – Portland House, Nottingham

• Recovery in Prison 4 Therapeutic Communities in Prison

Recovery in our Communities

Recovery focus for all our services

• All of our services maximise recovery capital by – Demonstrating good clinical governance – Fostering recovering communities and supporting a

range of peer mentoring approaches – Working with service users to evidence their progress

• Outcome Star• NVQ’s • Conservation therapy – 14,000 hrs of voluntary work • Symbols of recovery – Phoenix Forest, arts projects• Recovery ceremonies – graduations, new year honours

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Recovery in our Communities

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Benefits of CTP impact on completions

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Examples of Recovery outcomes

• At Portland House all service users graduate with qualifications

• Park House has 73% planned exits since June 2010

• Prison TC’s currently have an average completion rate of 62%

• In our adult residential services we have seen improvements in psychological health of 45%; physical health of 46%, quality of life by 69%

Recovery in our Communities

Karen Biggs

karen.bigss@phoenix-futures.org.ukwww.phoenix-futures.org.uk