Recovery Road Wellness Project is a charity registered in England and Wales. Our main areas of focus are on providing individuals currently experiencing withdrawal due to tranquilliser and antidepressant dependency with self-help and coping strategies, and on empowering those who are recovered or are in the final stages of recovery with the resources they need to be able to move on. For those currently in withdrawal we provide a helpline service (08456007556) and a withdrawal survival guide. See details in our “Contact Us” section below. To those who are mostly or fully recovered we offer the Moving On and Empowerment programmes which include helpline support, signposting, coaching and mini-courses.
With our guidance they are able to once again become fully functional: to reintegrate into society, return to work and find alternative ways of coping with stress and anxiety. We also provide information and resources to relatives, doctors, counsellors and other professionals.
While providing a regular Helpline service for those curently in withdrawal we spoke to many people who were stuck and were unable to let go of the experience and forge a new beginning despite wanting to do so. We recognised this gap in provision – a need for a support agency to focus on the final stage of recovery which is empowerment to move on – and consequently decided to change our focus.
Our Helpline now deals with those ready for a new, better chapter in their lives and our Empowerment Programme which is proving to be very successful develops self-help, offers comprehensive coping strategies, guidance on dealing with stigmatisation and other repercussions of withdrawal, and gives ideas for reintegrating into society and returning to the workplace, such as micro-volunteering. Through our website we promote awareness of related issues.
History and Background
The Project was first set up in April 2007 by a survivor of withdrawal, who through her own experience identified the need for more support services in the United Kingdom. With training and experience in mental health, chemical dependency counselling and domestic violence support (as part of the Women’s Aid Federation of England Helpline team), she started an online journal of her recovery which has since become Recovery Road.
With support and encouragement from our Patron, the Countess of Sandwich – who raised the funds required for us to become eligible to apply for Charity Commission registration - we were able to acquire charitable status and are now focusing on expanding our services. We are managed by an efficient Board of Trustees which comprises a Chair who is a lawyer by profession, a Treasurer who is an energy consultant and company director, and a Secretary who is a medical doctor/consultant in acute medicine.
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