Course Overview
Welcome to our e-learning course on transforming the REC-CAP Assessment results into an effective recovery care plan. Join us as we delve into the important process of goal-setting, assertively linking to resources and node-link mapping. Together, we will guide you in creating a recovery care plan using the REC-CAP results that target barriers, and unmet service needs, and empowers the growth of recovery capital strengths. By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Understand the principles of care planning
- Appreciate how "Recovery Capital Measures" inform the development of concrete recovery plans
- How and when to modify the goal templates during a recovery planning session
- How to add events to a client's recovery care plan using the ARMS system
- How to guide the client through using their ARMS portal
- How to review client progress in the Recovery Plan
Introduction to Recovery Care Planning
Welcome to the Recovery Care Planning course! By now, you should be familiar with the REC-CAP Assessment and using the online system. This course is designed to equip you with the fundamental skills necessary to provide effective navigational support to individuals in their recovery journey.
Our goal is to both empower you to create personalized care plans that cater to the unique needs and strengths of each individual you support and to help guide you through the process of making sense of the findings in order to plan the next stages of the recovery journey. Here we will emphasize a pivotal point where the focus transitions from assessing recovery wellbeing to planning for the future. This course is designed to support recovery navigators to build recovery capital through a structured recovery support service (RSS) we refer to as Measure, Plan, and Engage (MPE). This is specially designed to be delivered by peers in peer-run or peer-based recovery organizations but can be used in a wide range of settings with no prior experience of care planning.
We believe that the more you engage in providing Navigational Support to your clients, the more you will grow and adapt your skills. In addition to this course, we encourage you to connect with other Recovery Navigators through monthly Community of Practice (CoP) meetings. These CoP’s provide a valuable platform to share experiences, overcome challenges together, and to celebrate successes. To find out if there is a Community of Practice in your area, we recommend reaching out to your program administrator or by submitting a support ticket.
How we help people to build recovery capital is through the process of CHIME (Connectedness, Hope, Identity, Meaning and Empowerment) which you learned a bit about in the ‘Measuring and Building Recovery Capital Course’; positive pro-social human connections build hope that recovery is possible, which in turn generates a virtuous circle of engaging in meaningful activities, which then leads to a sense of empowerment and positive identity.
Recovery Care Planning is both based on hope and focused on the future. The process is about identifying what those hopes are and creating a plan to help the person in recovery fulfill those hopes. This is very different from treatment plans that are often created in specialist services by professionals where the ‘client’ does not feel they have a voice in the ownership of either the process or in the plan itself.
The aim here is to create a set of SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely) Goals that you can support the person to work towards while getting to know them and to help them achieve not only their goals but to also build a set of skills and abilities along the way that will constitute recovery capital. Their goals will change over time and your role is to work with both the successful completion of goals and where goals are not achieved to support growth, reflection, self-awareness and a broad range of skills and abilities.
To complete this course, you will need to use a test client that has completed the baseline REC-CAP assessment. We recommend you use the same test client from the Measuring and Building Recovery Capital Course you created. If you no longer have that client set up, please take a few moments to set up a new test client and complete a baseline REC-CAP assessment.