Mike Barry-CEO People Advocating Recovery

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PAR-Faith Partners for Recovery

• Mike Barry-CEOPeople Advocating Recovery
• Dona Daubitz-Barry, PAR-Faith Partners for
  Recovery
• Owner-Spiritual Energy Solutions

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PAR-Faith Partners for Recovery

• Our Goal today A brief introduction and overview
  of Faith Partners for Recovery (FPfR)
• Not on our agenda today
• Defining addiction or recovery
• Recommending any type of treatment or recovery
  program
• Attempting to become treatment professionals

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About PAR (501c3)

• PAR MissionPeople Advocating Recovery is a
  statewide group of concerned individuals working
  to eliminate barriers to recovery from addiction.
• PAR VisionSociety views addiction as a disease
  without shame, stigma, or discrimination.

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About-Faith Partners for Recovery

• FPfR MissionTo decrease the number of highrisk
  substance users and increase the number of
  dependent substance users entering recovery
  programs as early as possible in the progress of
  their illness.

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The Faith Community

• Recovery means reaching out, reconnecting with
  people who have healthy lifestyles and learning
  how to attend to others as well as care for
  oneself.
• Entering a healing faith community can open the
  door taught by all faiths (compassion,
  forgiveness, hope) and set an individual on a
  path to new, meaningful way of life.
• Spiritually-Physically-Mentally

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Did You Know?

• Over 94 of clergy consider substance abuse and
  addiction to be important issues they confront --
  yet only 12.5 of priests, ministers and rabbis
  completed coursework related to substance abuse
  during their theological studies.
• National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
  (CASA) Columbia University, New York City

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Years ago

• Actually not even that long ago
• Asylums, ridicule, shame
• Medications, shock treatment
• Pledges, stockades for town drunk or jails

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How it all started

• Dr. Bob Smith and Bill Wilson in 1935 found that
  two people with the same problem talking with
  each other really did the trick and 12 step
  programs were born.

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The Healing Place

• A volunteer, Dr. Richard Blondell, at The Healing
  Place in Louisville realized people were in and
  out of the hospital ER repeatedly due to alcohol
  or drug problems without being addressed.

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A Clinical Study-UofL

• If no one talks to an individual about possible
  substance use disorder there is a 10 chance that
  the individual will make a life altering change.
• If someone talks with the individual to let
  him/her know there might be a problem there is a
  30 chance the individual will make a life
  altering change.
• If a person in recovery makes contact and shares
  their Experience, Strength, and Hope, there is a
  60 chance the individual will make a life
  altering change.

Blondell et al. J Fam Pract 200150447 University
of Louisville Hospital
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SBI-How It Works

• Screenings and brief interventions (SBI) address
  risky alcohol/drug use long before it leads to
  health, financial, social, employment and family
  problems.
• Research shows that a brief, non-judgmental
  intervention by a health care professional or
  those with experience can have a positive, long
  term impact on risky alcohol or drug use.

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(SBI) Screening and Brief Intervention

• Designed for use by service providers who do not
  specialize in addiction treatment
• Uses motivational approaches based on how ready
  the person is to change behavior
• Gives feedback and suggestions respectfully in
  the form of useful information, without judgment
  or accusations
• Has been shown by research to be effective in
  reducing alcohol use and alcohol-related adverse
  consequences, including injury
• (There are many sources available to describe SBI
  in formal clinical settings and informal
  settings. Sometimes the term SBIRT is used.
  Screening, brief intervention, referral, and
  treatment)

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Substance Use vs. Substance Abuse

• Medical professionals follow certain criteria to
  determine if a person abuses alcohol or drugs.
• These established criteria also can mark whether
  the substance abuse has progressed to dependence.
• Alcohol and drug dependence cause people to
  suffer from withdrawal symptoms when they stop
  using the substance. Dependence also causes major
  behavioral changes, such as overwhelming
  preoccupation with drug or alcohol use.

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The Beginnings-The Angel Program

• Hospital does an SBI (screening and/or brief
  intervention) suggesting to the patient he/she
  might have a problem with drugs or alcohol
• Dr., Nurse, or Social Worker calls Mike Barry at
  The Healing Place requesting a visit by our
  Angels (Person in Recovery) with permission of
  the patient
• Angels visit the patient and tell their story of
  Experience, Strength, and Hope
• Gives encouragement on taking some action to
  change

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Keeping it Simple
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Im not an alcoholic/addict

• A common reaction when confronted.
• Our goal is not to make that determination.
• Remember this part of the FPfR Mission
• To decrease the number of highrisk substance
  users.

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FPfR Development

• Expand the concept of the Angel Program to the
  Faith Community realizing not all groups would
  have all the needed resources
• Keep the concept simple so that Formal Training
  isnt required
• Relieve the stress and time constraints on church
  leaders

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Faith Community

• Faith-based communities can come together to help
  plan and provide for the emotional and supportive
  needs of their communities.
• Their role is beneficial for supporting the
  substance use disorder or mental health needs of
  congregational and community families.

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Initial contact or question

• Pastor or someone speaks to individual that may
  identify that he/she and/or family member might
  have a problem with drugs or alcohol.
• May happen after the service
• Perhaps in an informal setting
• Individual may not even know what/how to ask
• Clergy may not know how to respond
• Clergy may not know who to contact
• Clergy may be on overload and not have the time
  to fully devote to the problem
• Perhaps doesnt feel qualified to address the
  issue
• Doesnt have time for formal training on the issue

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The modification

• Clergy, Assistant, etc. (Hospital)
• Recovery Resource Person (Mike)
• Recovery Guide (Volunteers-Angels)

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Defining the Terms

• Recovery Resource Person A Person who has been
  educated regarding recovery resources, but is not
  necessarily in recoverynot necessarily a member
  of the clergy.
• Recovery Guide A person in long term recovery,
  who has agreed to share their story about life
  pre-recovery, compared with life now, along with
  sharing information on valuable resources if a
  high-risk individual is interested in learning
  more. The Recovery Guide plays an important
  role in the success of this program. Under ideal
  or normal circumstances men should work with men
  and women with women.

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The Process

• Clergy or assistant contacts the Recovery
  Resource Person with permission of the
  individual. The Recovery Resource Person has
  contacts within the church and other churches in
  the community with persons who can speak with
  experience about problems with drugs or alcohol.
  This person is called the Recovery Guide. (SBI
  takes place here)
• Recovery Guide (Person in long term recovery)
  shares their story of Experience, Strength, and
  Hope.

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Comparison
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More on the Recovery Guide

• Recovery Guides cannot be caretakers or enablers
  doing things such as giving rides or handing out
  personal phone numbers or addresses.
• Recovery Guides are simply going to carry the
  message, thats all that the Recovery Guide is
  expected to accomplish.
• The Recovery Guides number one job is to help
  someone Take Action!
• (For those in 12 step programs its important to
  note that ideally theRecovery Guide does not
  become a sponsor)

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FPfR-Making Connections
Within the Church or Church to Church
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Requirements for participation

• Volunteers may or may not be clergy members.
• Volunteers must follow the standards for moral
  and ethical behavior
• Volunteers must not have any physical or mental
  health conditions that would interfere with the
  ability to perform any of the tasks
• Volunteers must be trustworthy and able to
  maintain confidences
• Volunteers must be welcoming toward those who
  seek information and advice

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Confidentiality

• Conversations
• Our moral/ethical obligation to keep certain
  information in confidence
• Records that might be shared
• What things to NOT keep in confidence
• Abuse
• Suicide intentions
• Homicide intentions

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FPfR Foundations Concepts

• AwarenessAcceptance-Action
• How can you identify alcoholism/addiction?
• Live and let live
• Seek help yourself
• Remember You didnt cause the addiction, you
  cant control it, and you cant cure it.
• Avoid home treatments

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FPfR Foundations Concepts

• Dont become an enabler
• Tell children that alcohol changes how people act
• Protect yourself and your children
• Take a good look at yourself
• Encourage an interest in treatment if needed
• Finally----Encouragement to take Action

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Planting the seed

• First Church Involved in many boards, good home,
  married with children, actively involved with
  church, teaching Sunday school classes, but
  overrun with alcoholism. Got no helpno one said
  a thing
• Second church Now divorced and remarried.
  Minister offered counseling, but I felt like wife
  and minister were ganging up on me. I couldnt
  be one of those persons. Marriage nearly fell
  apart.
• Third Church Minister introduced me to some
  really nice people who had a brother-in-law who
  recovered from alcoholism. Heres the important
  part.it didnt help right away, but the seed was
  planted. I still visit that couple frequently in
  Lexington.

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Thank You

• Kentucky Department of Behavioral Health,
• Developmental Intellectual Disabilities

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Thank You

• People Advocating Recovery
• Mike Barry-CEO
• 502.552.8573
• http//www.peopleadvocatingrecovery.org
• mike.barry_at_peopleadvocatingrecovery.org