6. The Recovery Plan
Because a recovery care plan is primarily strengths-based, we work on the assumption that we are tapping into both internal resources (skills and abilities, and motivations that the person in recovery has) AS WELL AS the external resources that both you and they can tap into from the community. Granfield and Cloud (2003) referred to this as:
“The depth and breadth of internal and external resources an individual may draw upon to initiate and sustain recovery from alcohol and other drug problems.”
Once you have finished reviewing, modifying, and adding the first goals to the Recovery Plan from the ‘Plan goals’ screen in the ARMS system, select ‘Next’ which is located on the bottom right of your screen.
As you have already learned, the Recovery Plan comprises goals, events, and resources.
Client resource ratings are key indicators of the person in recovery performance. ARMS tallies & reports the percentage of tagged resources that were rated by the person in recovery during each Recovery Plan life cycle. Thus, Navigators should make certain to delete a resource from an action item if the person in recovery does not commit to engaging those resources during the recovery planning session.
It is empowering for the person in recovery to visualize their recovery goal progress while still engaged in the initial recovery planning session. Make sure that you have gone through each of the goals that have been added to the plan and mark any tasks that have been completed. Progress will then be displayed on the progress bar of each goal in the recovery plan.
From this point forward, the person in recovery should update the action items, check in to events, and rate resources directly from the person in recovery's portal. You may need to help the person in recovery by guiding them through the process of logging in to their portal and teaching them how to update tasks, check in to events, and rate resources. We will walk you through the person in recovery portal orientation in the next section. For now, the last step of the Recovery Planning Session is to schedule the next session inside the ARMS system which we will show you in a quick video next.
Practice scheduling the next session
Using your test client in ARMS, practice scheduling the next session.
HOW TO SCHEDULE THE NEXT SESSION
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