1. Sunshine Recovery Café
Rowan Anderson

2. Renfrewshire ADP
Renfrewshire Alcohol Drug Partnership established in 2009
Brought partner agencies together formally
Brought Drugs & Alcohol together
Responsible for addressing alcohol and drug issues

3. Service User Network (SUN)

4. Pilot Phase Convincing Stakeholders Securing Funding Sourcing Venue
Learning from others
Being a legitimate business…

5. What would the Café be?
Somewhere people can come and talk in confidence
A safe place for addicts to come. A place where you can seek help and other services
Warm & Friendly place to be able to come and chat. A place to come and know that you are not alone – similar issues
To meet people of the same frame of mind, in recovery or through recovery and clean!
A safe, calm meeting place for people in recovery and perhaps run computer classes, health and wellbeing access to services
For people to be able to open up and discuss issues without feeling embarrassed.
Someone listening, counselling, support.
I would like the recovery café to be a place where I can meet people in the same boat as me

6. Social Enterprise Model
Volunteer Run
Constituted body
Shared responsibility
Personal investment
‘Giving back’
Ownership
Advertising

7. Growing Opportunities…
Volunteering in Cafe
College
Food Hygiene
Employability
Holistic Therapist
Money Advice
Share Group
Guitar Group
Evenings

8. The un-measurable impact
Friendships created
Impact on social isolation
Confidence building
Recovery education
Sense of belonging
Nutrition

9. Partnership Working Willingness of organisations to support the Café
Staff support
Community support
Positivity that surrounds the project
COSLA award nomination

10. “A grateful addict/alcoholic”
“The Power of Recovery”
(Personal communication with Phillip Valentine, Executive Director, CCAR, Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery)
“5 years+
In recovery”
“Recovering People”
“Long Term Recovery”
“Better than well”
“A grateful addict/alcoholic”
“Model citizens”
“Normal People”
Potential
“Early Recovery”
Time