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
stay clean.
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.
Empathy
plays a vital role in the healing process.
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.
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