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The Basement Project has started a ‘Stop the Week’ Drop-In for anyone who is in recovery. It’s a chance to catch up with fellow recoverees, meet new friends and touch base with our recovery coaches if things are not going too well. We are open on Fridays from 3 to 5pm at the YMCA, Halifax, Crossley St, Halifax, HX1 1UG. It’s an open access service and is open to anyone from Calderdale and beyond.
Exactly the kind of the thing we need more of!
Here here! Please tell us more about the drop-in, how it was developed, how it runs etc, as it finds it’s feet.
Pucker, sure wish there where some dowm my way. Well done and keep it up.
The Basement already provides a user-led recovery day programme for people suffering from addictions. We support people into AA & NA, but we have found that for those who don’t want to engage with 12 step groups, there is a lack of community support post-programme. This idea of ‘Stop the Week’ cann offer that support, but it is modelled on a Buddist approach. For people who have had a hard week, or for those who struggle over the weekends due to isolation, we hope that the drop-in will go some way to preparing people for the weekends. We aim for all our informal groups to be user-directed, and The Basement Project’s ethos is to facilitate only.
As The Basement is user-led and open to many routes to Recovery we continue to welcome and explore other forms of support and we hope to be able to facilitate SMART in the coming months.
As the NTA now seems to be opening its mind to Recovery (Commissioning for Recovery), we hope that many new mutual aid groups will be available to all our communities. From our experience with our Recovery Programme, this form of support and recovery works, the power of example is priceless, and for our commissioners, mutual aid is the most cost-effective model for Recovery.
