BUILDING RECOVERY CAPITAL IN COMMUNITY

September 7th 11 am. Anvil Centre Room Studio 413

Moderated by Jessica Cooksey

Learning Objectives

  • Identify distinct recovery capital areas that can be enhanced and barriers to be addressed in individuals’ recovery processes
  • Identify evidence-informed approaches that can engage with and support people in their goals recovery from complex mental health and substance use challenges and improved in quality of life
  • Updated knowledge about the interventions that are most effective for promoting recovery among people with complex mental health and substance use challenges

Dr. Julian Somers SFU

Recovery Capital: When Wealth and Poverty Have the Same Price.

Updating knowledge about the interventions that are most effective for promoting recovery among people with complex addictions;

Promoting the use of “recovery capital” as a concept to differentiate effective and less effective interventions, even when they cost the same amount of money


Keir Macdonald Look Out Society

Recovery Capital through Harm Reduction

Identify evidence-informed approaches that can engage with and support people in their goals recovery from complex mental health and substance use challenges and improved in quality of life. Updated knowledge about the interventions that are most effective.


Susan Hogarth Westminster House for Women

Recovery Capital Through Residential Treatment

A community based women’s residential treatment program perspective on building Recovery Capital. Identify distinct recovery capital areas that can be enhanced and barriers to be addressed in individuals’ recovery processes


There is a growing recognition that there are many pathways of recovery. This presentation explores the barriers and facilitators to recovery capital. Using the concept of Recovery Capital – a biopsychosocial recovery presenters provide a lens to identify distinct areas that can be enhanced and barriers to be addressed in individuals’ recovery processes. Three distinct community services present person-centered approaches to strengthening recovery capital. Because recovery is a relatively understudied topic, this presentation highlights evidence-informed approaches that can engage with and support people in their goals recovery from complex mental health and substance use challenges and improved in quality of life.


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Recovery Capital Conference of Canada