2. The Pivot Point

2. The Pivot Point

Once the REC-CAP Assessment is completed, you will be presented with the summary page that automatically scores and color codes the subdomains as a summary of where the person’s strengths and barriers to recovery currently are. From here, the next step will be the pivot from the assessment to Recovery Care Planning, i.e. there is an immediate bridge between assessment and care planning to ensure that the discussion on recovery capital is fresh in the minds of both navigator and person in recovery and to build on and use the strengths identified. To help with this process, we have created a ‘Discovery Map’. 

The Discovery Map serves as a “metaphoric bridge” to facilitate a collaborative recovery planning process. Together, the person in recovery & navigator forge an alliance where they rely on REC-CAP Results to inform their selection and modification of suggested goal templates that the system will provide to you for inclusion in the Recovery Plan.



The apples of the five (5) recovery strengths trees in our orchard represent the subdomains of each positive capital domain. Green apples are healthy, amber apples are of moderate health, and red apples are unhealthy. In order to grow healthy, strong green apple trees we will need to focus on the soil, as illustrated above. The soil contains the Barriers to Recovery and Unmet Service Needs identified from the REC-CAP Assessment. These two domains represent Negative Recovery Capital.

As addressed in the excerpt below from the psychometric study “Recovery capital pathways: Modelling the components of recovery wellbeing” (Cano, et al, 2017), Navigators first focus recovery planning on the resolution of negative capital. Once the Barriers and Unmet Needs are resolved, Navigators should then encourage the person in recovery to focus on building strengths (apples on the trees). 
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Excerpt: “Moreover, while fulfilling unmet needs remains significant to building up recovery capital and improves well-being, this study suggests that a strengths-based recovery plan is essential based on building recovery resources through meaningful activities, to kick-start personal and social capital, and to generate well-being. Conversely, in line with previous research (see Best and Laudet, 2010), our findings highlight the role of time in a residence as a basic requirement for addressing barriers and unmet needs to create the space for building capital, thus acknowledging the importance of removing ‘negative recovery capital' factors (Cloud and Granfield, 2008) that act as barriers to recovery, which hinder the satisfaction of needs.”

So your first aim as a Navigator is to work with the person in recovery to create goals addressing first the barriers, then the unmet service needs identified in the REC-CAP Assessment. Once there are no barriers and unmet service needs, you will focus on using their existing strengths from the results of the REC-CAP to build more recovery strengths and maybe even custom goals that the person in recovery wants to achieve. 
Commitment is where the journey begins; 


The initial planning step is to resolve the Barriers & Unmet Needs by assertively linking people in recovery to community-based resources.


Followed by encouraging them to engage with recovery groups and meaningful activities. 


Here you should begin to discuss with the person in recovery what the priorities are from the barriers and unmet service needs listed in the soil of our Discovery Map. Please keep in mind that while we want to address them all, we don’t want to create an overwhelming number of goals to begin with. We recommend choosing the top 3- 5 goals that are a priority and that would make the most impact for the person in recovery. As the person in recovery completes goals, new goals may then be added to the plan. 


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