Language used to describe terms related to lived experience can be inconsistent and confusing. So we have defined 2 main relevant terms below. Other terms used in this guidance are defined in the glossary. Lived experience initiatives recovery vision: RCOs enhance the support for people seeking recovery and those in long-term recovery, recognising that there are many pathways to recovery

This guidance does not replace any of the other existing guidance, but the scope and depth of this guidance is not available elsewhere. Terminology about lived experience Peer-led communities, services and supports offer people recovery support in the long term. It is hard to imagine an effective recovery-oriented system of care without any peer-led services and supports. refer people from emergency departments into specialist treatment after a non-fatal overdose and offer continued support and harm reduction interventions like naloxone (Ashford and others, 2019) Brief interventions delivered by peers have been shown to support treatment and recovery outcomes (Bernstein and others, 2005). Research also suggests that a single peer-delivered brief intervention can: The lived experience leaders who co-developed this guidance describe peer-led initiatives as having the following features. Led by and for people with lived experience

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National Drug Treatment Monitoring System business definitions for core data set Q define the recovery support interventions provided while someone is in treatment as: Some RSS are delivered by treatment providers, some by lived experience recovery organisations ( LEROs), and some by a combination of both. See section 7 below for more about LEROs. We are aware of 33 LEROs in England working in at least 40 local authorities. Peer-led initiatives: what they are the breadth and depth of internal and external resources that can be drawn upon to initiate and sustain recovery from alcohol and other drug problems.

Maria Paulowna, Grand Duchess, consort of Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, 1786-1859 1 Healthy environments can include a person’s home and other places where they spend their time. Someone in recovery can improve their wellbeing and increase their recovery capital if they: The blue dotted line in figure 2 shows how both specialist and non-specialist services should be embedded within communities that have many of the factors that enable recovery and that where these are community resources they should be supported to thrive. In an effective ROSC, system partners work together to ensure that there are multiple ways for a person to engage or re-engage with support and improve their health, wellbeing and social functioning. The role of peer support How peer support helpsIn From Lived Experience to the Written Word , Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making practices. Rather than simply passing along knowledge in the workshop, these literate artisans chose to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs, and recipe books, sparking early technical writing and laying the groundwork for how we think about scientific knowledge today. personal capital: examples of this include safe and secure accommodation, physical and mental health and wellbeing, and opportunities to develop skills and experience such as employment, training and education