Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Offender Health: SMART recovery guidance for prisons and probation; Alcohol services review


Two new guidance documents are available from SMART recovery UK, a new peer support (mutual aid) organisation. 
  • Guidance for Prisons How promoting SMART Recovery can help improve abstinent recovery and reduce re-offending
  • Guidance for Probation How promoting SMART Recovery can improve abstinent outcomes for DRR and ATR’s and reduce re-offending
A SMART recovery guidance document is available anyone who wishes to support the establishment of SMART Recovery meetings in their area.

A report  Offender Health: Alcohol Services Review - Summary has been produced by the Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University (JMU). It reports that a range of alcohol focused interventions are available across offender settings, but there is significant geographical variation in provision a lack of community-based offender-specific services in some areas.

Further Offender Health documents can be found here on the Alcohol Learning Centre.


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