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Many of you will be aware of the SDRC from previous blogs and discussions on Wired In. Well, here’s an update and more information about the SDRC as we are now up and running. Our membership will be drawn from Scotland but we are very keen to link across the broader UK Recovery networks. If you are in Glasgow, do come and see us – you will be made very welcome.
Hope you find this useful…
The Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium (SDRC) has been established to drive and promote Recovery for individuals, family members and communities affected by drugs across Scotland. The SDRC will not be a provider of Recovery treatment.
Our role will be to identify, support and coordinate the incredible work that is already going on across Scotland, much of it unheralded and unfunded, to ensure that there is consistency and coherence in delivering the Recovery agenda in Scotland. The SDRC is funded by the Scottish Government to support implementation of Recovery focussed objectives of the ‘Road to Recovery’ national drugs strategy.
We are looking to engage with a range of interested people who are affected by drugs e.g. individuals in Recovery, family members, communities, statutory bodies, organisations and academic institutes.
The SDRC will be an open and accessible vehicle for all of the key stakeholders – individuals who want to share their experience of Recovery, mutual aid and community groups, treatment providers in statutory and non statutory settings, housing agencies, employment and training organisations, primary health providers and specialist agencies – to work together with people in Recovery and their families to develop pathways to meaningful and sustained Recovery.
The SDRC will:
• Promote the principles of Recovery and develop the language, and strategic vision to carry the Recovery agenda forward in Scotland
• Improve the knowledge and understanding of Recovery and Recovery focussed practice amongst individuals, their families, communities, drug treatment professionals and others
• Reduce stigma and discrimination by promoting a positive vision of Recovery from drug problems and addiction
• Inspire the hope and belief that Recovery is possible
• Gather and disseminate information and evidence to support the effective implementation of the Recovery agenda
After months of preparatory work, the SDRC now has a fully functional office in the centre of Glasgow. Our new office base will be a central hub of Recovery activity in Scotland and we have a limited range of facilities, including meeting rooms, wireless internet access and telephone conferencing.
We will offer these facilities to our members to support shared efforts to promote Recovery and the aims of the SDRC. We also aim to build up a range of resources available to share with others about the power of Recovery. If you have any information, inspiring stories, artwork or statements about Recovery that can inspire others, we would be pleased to hear from you.
We are also very keen to meet with all people who have an interest in Recovery. Sharing our learning, remaining open to new ideas and connecting people together will be the hallmark of the SDRC and its membership – we are eager to meet with individuals or groups who can share their ideas and achievements that can support our work to promote Recovery.
The SDRC is now looking to recruit an experienced Communications Manager and Administration Assistant and will design our website to update all our members on developments. If you would like to know more, please contact our office or click here.
A membership pack, including an application form is being finalised and will be available shortly for distribution. This will include information about how to become an SDRC member, categories of membership and other details. However, if you are interested in joining now, please contact us and we will include you on our membership pack mailing list. We have already received over 100 expressions of interest from across Scotland.
The first SDRC Annual General Meeting is scheduled for early June in Glasgow. Further details will be available to members and will be issued to them shortly.
For any information, please contact:
Scottish Drugs Recovery Consortium
234 West George Street
GLASGOW G2 4QY
Tel: 0141 226 1662
e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
We would be grateful if you could distribute this SDRC update to your networks or pass to anyone who may wish to join the SDRC as a member.
Huge congratulations! Exciting times ahead.
My mother is married to a Scot does that make me eligible? Probably not. Oh well…………..
And congratulations from me as well Dougie.
My father is a Scot does that make me eligible? I’ve got a very Scottish name?!!
Looking forward to meeting up with you at the end of March.
well done… this is amazing! look forward to reading more about your progress, and would love to come up and meet with ya all.
Good luck and indeed as Michaela says… exciting times ahead.
This is such an achievement for Scotland. Very exciting times.
As Stanley Baxter might say: Whirra boora roonda plaws?
You deserve it!
A very warm and official welcome from me (guilty of mentioning SDRC) in other blogs, its fantastic to see you all being part of the wider UK recovery community and wish you well in achieving all said noble and sincere aims above.
Big hug
Am
Welcome Dougie Paterson and S.D.R.C. I wish you well in your efforts in the field of RECOVERY !!!!!
Regards.
congratulations!! I bet you all need a little rest!
my family moved from Scotland to Ireland in the 18th Century, does that make me eligible?
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Good luck. Look forward to working with you on moving things on in Scotland, and wider
Great stuff, its great to hear this,and it is exiting times in Scotland, and with the SDRC hopefully we can change the attitude towards addiction.
Thanks to all for your positive and supportive comments. The question of who can join the SDRC outside of Scotland is a good one (great to see lots of you have scottish relatives !) and we will need to think more about this. I think we can still include non members in almost everything except things like voting at the AGM, but we will give this more thought. Look out for more updates and membership info comming soon…
Just a quick word of thanks to the many people who have worked to set up the SDRC – from Scottish Govt collegues to TPS and our current shadow Board – your efforts have been invaluble and helped us to hit the ground running.
A final word of thanks to the many people have been calling for collective action on Recovery for a long time – your persistance and patience has played a part in making the SDRC a reality. I look forward to working with you all to take the SDRC and your continued work on Recovery to the next level in Scotland.
Congratulations on the official moment of birth. This baby’s going to grow fast!
The time for change is right, as is the environment. There is great desire, commitment, support and momentum behind the SDRC and the wider recovery agenda. Good luck to making a noticable and sustainable impact.
