BAC-IN
BAC-IN
TO LIFE. Making a difference, representing creative change.
BAC-IN
is a peer led community service that offers positive role
models of recovery within the African/Caribbean,
South Asian and Dual Heritage communities. It offers
hope and encouragement to people who have lost their dignity
and self-respect and it provides on-going support for people
who are struggling to drug and alcohol free.
In many African/Caribbean, South Asian
and Dual Heritage families and communities alcohol and drug
abuse is hidden and denied, it can bring shame and fear
and lead to alienation and rejection. Mainstream services
take little or no account of traditional and religious values
and are unable to provide for cultural dimensions and cultural
empathy to promote effective and lasting healing from addiction.
BAC-IN
is a unique and innovative recovery programme run by and
for people from the African/Caribbean,
South Asian and Dual Heritage community whose lives
have been devastated by drug or alcohol.
Traditional
recovery programmes are unable to offer a culturally sensitive
model of support, this combined with the shame and stigma
associated with drug and alcohol abuse in some African/Caribbean
and South Asian communities, leaves those seeking
help unsupported and alone.
Many
current members have faced racism, ostracism, cultural displacement,
oppression, as well as economic and institutional barriers
throughout their long struggle to be free of their addiction.
BAC-IN seeks to offer an alternative, which celebrates diversity,
recognizes and values difference and welcomes a wide range
of cultural, religious and spiritual perspectives. |
