The Road from Crime – Extended Preview
Excellent preview, I’m heading to watch the full film. ‘What can we learn from those former prisoners who have successfully “desisted” from criminal behaviour or “gone straight?” The exit at the...
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ManyFaces1Voice: Patrick Fogarty
Check out the latest filmed Recovery Story from ManyFaces1Voice. ‘Patrick Fogarty received a gift on the day he was supposed to receive a sentence of years in prison. During a caseworker’s pre-sentence...
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‘WA Attorney General: Please don’t sell our family home of 30yrs – don’t make...
Something pissed me off today! I came across Valerie’s Story on change.org and immediately signed the petition. My comment was: “This situation is disgusting and is a clear human rights issue. Why are...
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‘Prison-Based Recovery Advocacy (The San Quentin Story)’ by Bill White
‘The stage is set for a recovery-focused advocacy and peer support movement within the U.S. prison system. The mass incarceration of drug offenders in recent decades, the growth of prison-based...
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‘Heroin Addiction, a Mother’s Story’ by Kim
It’s time I put up another blog from Veronica Valli and the following from Kim is special… and very moving. ‘Addiction doesn’t just affect the person using drugs it affects the whole family. I know...
View ArticleRuby’s Healing Story
“But she said what she had to do first, before she started to heal, was to let the past go. And in order for her to let it go she had to forgive… she had to forgive the people in the mission, the...
View Article‘High on Hope’: Peter’s Story
Please watch this excellent filmed Recovery Story. Thank you so much for this share, Peter. ‘A frank and honest account of a life dominated by addiction and crime that ends on a ‘HIGH’ – Peter’s story...
View ArticleUntangling the Elements Involved in Treatment
Our research focused on interviews of people in a prison treatment programme revealed insights into the elements that operate in the treatment process, and how they might interact to facilitate a...
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Ruby’s Healing Story
It’s hard to believe that it is over seven years ago since I launched Sharing Culture, an educational initiative to facilitate the healing of intergenerational trauma. [I don’t upload new content on...
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An Illustration of the Manner in Which Factors Facilitating Recovery Interact
This blog post is taken from part of a chapter in my recent eBook Our Recovery Stories: Journeys from Drug and Alcohol Addiction. Research I conducted with Lucie James back in 2008 provided important...
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