Recovery Statement
Recovery is the common outcome all Bridge services aim to achieve. Recovery is a journey of transformation enabling a person with a substance misuse problem to live a meaningful life in a community of his or her choice while striving to achieve his or her full potential.
Bridge will use the following core principles to build resilience and facilitate recovery:
- Fostering hope, as a source of motivation and strength for Service Users when trying to overcome challenges in their lives.
- Enabling Service Users to take personal responsibility for their own self-care and Recovery, for their families, children and the community.
- Tailoring services to the unique needs of Service Users, building on the capacities, resiliencies, talents, strengths and inherent worth of individuals.
- Providing services that address all aspects of a Service User’s life, including substance misuse, housing, work, education, training, healthcare, offending, spirituality, family life and relationships, community participation and support networks.
- Recognising the need for protection of individuals, families, children and the community.
- Promoting the rights of Service Users and reducing the barrier of stigma by promoting positive messages about recovery from real people.
- Challenging all forms of discrimination and ensuring the inclusion and full participation of Service Users in all aspects of their lives.
- Basing services on robust research.
- Providing opportunities for Service Users to help and support each other engendering a sense of belonging, promoting supportive relationships and community.
- Empowering Service users to have a right to participate in decisions that will affect their lives; the right to determine their own path of Recovery to achieve their goals.
- Recognising that recovery is based on growth, experiencing setbacks and learning from experience.
- Actively encouraging Service Users to influence the design of services and participate in their evaluation and delivery.
- Welcoming former Service Users and providing them with opportunities to become members of our volunteer and staff team.
- Ensuring services respond to the needs of families and promote healthy and safe family life.
