Recovery Coach Manual Substance Use Disorder Recovery Program Recovery2nd Edition, Coach Revised 2017 Manual
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Recovery Coach Manual Substance Use Disorder Recovery Program Recovery2nd Edition, Coach Revised 2017 Manual TheThe McShin McShin FoundationFoundation A RecoveryA Recovery Resource Resource Foundation Foundation 2300 Dumbarton Road 2300Richmond, Dumbarton VA 23228 Road (804) 249-1845 Richmond,[email protected] VA 23228 (804)www.mcshin.org 249-1845 John ShinholserJohn Shinholser [email protected] J. DanielDaniel Payne Payne President Executive Director President www.mcshin.org Director Founded in 2004 by John Shinholser and Carol McDaid, The McShin Foundation is a nationally accredited authentic Recovery Community Organization (RCO) that operates a 15,000 square foot Recovery Community Center (RCC) in Richmond, Virginia. The McShin Foundation is one of five accredited RCO entities in the United States, and is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Peer Recovery Support Services (CAPRSS). In addition, McShin is a member of the Association of Recovery Community Organizations (ARCO), and has its residences follow the National Association of Recovery Residences (NARR) guidelines. Our mission is to deliver a message of hope to recovering addicts and alcoholics and to facilitate their journey to a healthier life. In order to accomplish this mission, we combine peer support services with family education and political advocacy to reduce the stigma of addiction and spread the message of recovery. McShin is operated by a 22 person staff and directed by 12-member non-profit Board of Directors, creating a diverse but cohesive community of support. In addition, our six recovery residences are each managed by a house leader and assistant house leader, providing increased accountability and stability for our residential participants. These residences are all state and nationally certified recovery residences. Nearly all McShin staff members are in recovery, peer leaders and are certified recovery coaches through our NAADAC approved Recovery Coach Training Curriculum. McShin delivers a peer model of recovery supported by (as needed) River City Comprehensive Counseling Services as a clinical service provider and Clean Life Medical for medication-assisted detox and visits with an Addiction Physician and Psychiatrist. Participants in the foundation’s residential program are subject to scheduled and random drug screens, required to participate in a strenuous 60-hour week (7 day) program delivered by peers and staff. Group attendance i ncludes participation in 12-step meetings as well as attending weekly non-denominational spiritual services. Participants are required to participate in frequent social, advocacy and like-minded events, which often includes engaging in service work and community service. McShin recovery housing and programs serve many populations including reentry individuals from jails, prisons or institutions. The organization provides services recognized by the Richmond and Henrico areas judicial system as a proven successful alternative to incarceration for individuals in the court system due to non-violent drug related crimes. The McShin Foundation continuously works with advocacy groups and policy makers at the federal and state level, promoting policy on Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) and successful effective non-incarceration solutions for non- violent SUD offenders. Additionally The McShin Foundation has been instrumental in the passage of such House Bills as HB 1672 - Naloxone administration in cases of opiate overdose. The McShin Foundation is unparalleled in its ability to provide an individual suffering from a Substance Use Disorder with access to Richmond’s recovery community and resources to better one’s life. The foundation’s long- standing success and respect in the community speaks for itself in our ability to serve the recovering community. This manual includes a curriculum for 16 hours of training designed to be provided over a two-day period as well as an expanded 48 hours of training intended to take six days. McShin Foundation | Recovery Coach Manual Foreword Just as individuals in 12-Step recovery sometimes feel the need to start their own meeting, so did we feel the urge first to establish the McShin Recovery Coaching program and, later, to write this manual to share what we have learned with others. As we have come to believe from our time ―in the rooms,‖ when a new meeting or other undertaking goes well, it must be God‘s will; when it does not, it must be self-will. McShin Foundation has grown and flourished in ways we could not have imagined. It is our hope that this manual will help others lay the groundwork to share the miracle of recovery with many more than we could ever serve. As the McShin recovery coaching program is thriving, we feel blessed. If this manual is widely read and helps others access the miracle of recovery, we believe that thanks is due first to God and secondly to Dr. H. Westley Clark, Director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration‘s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA/CSAT), without whose support this manual and curriculum could not have been developed. For years, Dr. Clarke has led the creation of amazing recovery projects. To some extent, the McShin Recovery Community Organization and Recovery Community Center and the McShin Foundation Peer Leadership Institute owe their existence to the work of Dr. Clark and his colleagues. Of all that SAMHSA/CSAT has given the treatment and recovery field, the five monographs on recovery-related topics released over the past few years by the SAMHSA/CSAT Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTCs) have had the greatest impact on McShin Foundation (White & Kurtz, 2006; White, Kurtz & Sanders, 2006; White, 2007b; White, 2008b; White, 2009). These monographs identified three major pathways to recovery—religious, spiritual, and secular—and laid out cross-cutting principles that apply to all three broad pathways. The McShin Foundation owes its mission and design to a combination of principles derived from these three major pathways to recovery and to the five recovery monographs published by the ATTCs. We owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Clark and his colleagues, to William L. (Bill) White, and to the ATTC network for their hard work, inspiration, insight, and support. Since McShin Foundation‘s humble beginning, when we relied almost exclusively on friends in recovery and their families, the organization has grown to include a 35-bed recovery housing program that hosts more than 2,000 support meetings each year. McShin Foundation is self-funded. We have adopted innovative fundraising strategies and, through them, have been able to attract a diverse set of benefactors. Over the past 3 years, our annual revenue has averaged about $500,000. The Foundation was incorporated as a 501(c3), 509(a2) public charity in July 2004. We are proud of our recent accomplishments. McShin Foundation has certified more than 150 recovery coaches—and we did this our way, the recovery way. Additionally, we succeeded in attracting more than 5,000 persons to our annual Recovery Fest, an event celebrating recovery from substance use that takes place every September, during Recovery Month. We have also impacted decision-making and policy at the local, State, and national levels through outreach and advocacy conducted by people in recovery and their allies. In Virginia, lawmakers on a joint subcommittee studying strategies and models for substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery approved some of the Foundation‘s recommendations, including: Developing and implementing a voucher model at various treatment and recovery service provider sites; Fostering learning about current recovery community organizations, continuing to fund their successful programs, and developing new ones; and, Exploring reimbursement options for autonomous recovery community organizations. Any group of people committed to their recovery can create and sustain a truly localized recovery community organization, as we did. The McShin model works; and this will show you how to implement it in your community. When starting your own recovery coaching program or recovery community organization, we strongly recommend that you read White‘s Slaying The Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America (1998), the ATTC recovery monographs, and other materials about major pathways to recovery. These resources will provide an invaluable understanding of the history and current status of the recovery movement and addictions treatment and will help you frame the mission and goals of your organization within this context. Above all, we would like to share a reminder we give ourselves daily: Your recovery is most important. Therefore, live the program you want to share with newcomers! Thank you to McShin Foundation executive director Daniel Payne for writing the majority of this manual. Without the commitment and countless hours he devoted to this project, this manual would not exist. Thank you also to Peter Gaumond of Altarum Institute for organizing and ―fleshing out‖ this manual; he really makes us look good. Finally, there would be no McShin Foundation without my wife and foundation cofounder Carol McDaid, the ―Mc‖ in McShin and—by far—the best recovery coach I have ever known. (I love my recovery coach!) Simply put, there would be no McShin without the ―Mc.‖ John M. Shinholser McShin Foundation cofounder and president McShin Foundation Recovery coaches draw their legitimacy not from traditionally acquired educational credentials, but rather,