Whole Health Guide to Self-Care
Inform individuals in recovery and their support networks, including employers, about factors related to resilience and long-term recovery
Bring community members together who wish to support recovery, to engage them in community planning and activism around anti-sigma and overdose prevention.
"A team comprised of Community Health Workers, resilience educators, drug treatment professionals, and neuroscientists will deliver the "TRY Whole Health Ambassador" curriculum developed by Durham's leading prevention agency, Together for Resilient Youth." The course will be presented to patients as they begin the transition from treatment to recovery and also to family members, supportive friends, clergy members, potential employers, and other interested parties in Durham.
The Whole-Health Ambassador Curriculum:
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Race, Implicit Bias, Historical Trauma
- Environmental Trauma (Social Determinants of Health)
- The Science of Stress
- The Power of Human Connections
- Maintaining a Positive Attitude
- Connecting with More Than Self
- Writing for Resilience
- Neuroscience of Drug Addiction
Expected Outcomes
To gather an empowered, informed, self-sustaining community of people who support each other and their families to 1) maintain long-term recovery and abstinence from opioid use and 2) build resilience to prevent others in the community from ever initiating opioid use. We will do this by listening to the observations and insights of those in recovery and those who support them as to what best supports the transition to successful long-term recovery.
The list of basic activities of the Whole Health Self-Care Guide
Participate in training to include:
Whole Health Curriculum
Resilience
Community Safety
Develop Whole Health Resource Guide
Reduce STIGMA
Facilitate community involvement and/or advocacy
- Outreach and Engagement – Engage 20 people to attend training
- Connect with resources
- Help arrange COMMUNITY meetings (orientation)
- Identify ways to offer support