Sunshine Recovery Café

Rowan Anderson

Renfrewshire ADP

Renfrewshire Alcohol Drug Partnership established in 2009

Brought partner agencies together formally

Brought Drugs & Alcohol together

Responsible for addressing alcohol and drug issues

Prevalence

Recovery

HealthCommunity

Safety

Local Environment

CAPSM

Services

Renfrewshire ADP

Service User Network (SUN)Community

Planning Partnership

Renfrewshire ADP

SPEARAddictions Operational

Planning GroupDrug Deaths

Group

Service User Network

Joint Finance Group

Pilot Phase

Convincing Stakeholders

Securing Funding Sourcing Venue Learning from others Being a legitimate

business…

What would the Café be?

Somewhere people can come and talk in confidence A safe place for addicts to come. A place where you can seek help and

other services Warm & Friendly place to be able to come and chat. A place to come and

know that you are not alone – similar issues To meet people of the same frame of mind, in recovery or through recovery

and clean! A safe, calm meeting place for people in recovery and perhaps run

computer classes, health and wellbeing access to services For people to be able to open up and discuss issues without feeling

embarrassed. Someone listening, counselling, support. I would like the recovery café to be a place where I can meet people in the

same boat as me

Social Enterprise Model

Volunteer Run Constituted body Shared responsibility Personal investment ‘Giving back’ Ownership Advertising

Growing Opportunities…

Volunteering in Cafe College Food Hygiene Employability Holistic Therapist Money Advice Share Group Guitar Group Evenings

The un-measurable impact

Friendships created Impact on social

isolation Confidence building Recovery education Sense of belonging Nutrition

Partnership Working

Willingness of organisations to support the Café

Staff support Community support Positivity that surrounds the project COSLA award nomination

“The Power of Recovery”(Personal communication with Phillip Valentine, Executive Director, CCAR, Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery)

Time

Pot

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“Normal People”

“Recovering People”

“Long Term Recovery”

“Better than well”

“A grateful addict/alcoholic”

“Model citizens”“Early Recovery”

“5 years+

In recovery”