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BAC-IN
Mission/Ethos & Values
BAC-IN
Mission
BAC-IN
Peer Led services offer culturally specific support, guidance and
education for the African / Caribbean, South Asian and Dual Heritage
communities. These services help address and treat substance misuse
as well as other related psychological and cultural issues.
BAC-IN
mission is to:
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To offer hope and inspiration and provide a design for living far
beyond active addiction and far beyond the socially conditioned
way of being.
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To support the primary goals of recovery that help service users
to quit drugs/alcohol misuse and to help them maintain sobriety
by abstaining from all mind and mood altering substances.
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To provide ongoing support for their personal, interpersonal (i.e.
socialising and relating to others) and transpersonal (connected
to spirituality, faith and higher consciousness) facets of recovery
that are vital to fully recovering.
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To help maximise the potential and the capacity to self realise
of each service user in their inner transformation as well as their
journey into social integration (i.e. housing, education, training
, employment etc)
• To promote abstinence based models of treatment that are
effective in long term healing and are mandatory treatment options
in the mainstream services.
BAC-IN Ethos
BAC-IN
uses an integrated in approach in meeting the wide range of needs
(i.e. cultural, psychosocial and spiritual) of the ongoing service
user recovery journey.
BAC-IN
recognises that the spirit, mind and body are key components in
the overall transformation of service user’s holistic development.
BAC-IN
provides a diverse range of services that are designed to maximise
and enhance long term healing and effective recovery.
Service
users are at the heart of BAC IN’s philosophy, service design
and infrastructure at all stages from front line outreach and client
engagement, through to planning, decision and policymaking. Most
of BAC-IN staff are former service users and therefore are deeply
committed to service user involvement and participation.
They
are themselves living embodiments of what service users can achieve,
they understand the recovery journey and are enjoying fulfilling
lives that result from practicing abstinence.
BAC-IN Values
The
shared values of BAC-IN are based in spirituality, human development
and higher consciousness.
Most
service users that enter into treatment have come from broken, disadvantaged
and degenerated backgrounds, where their self esteem, self-integrity
and confidence are often deeply damaged.
In
the life of most addicted individuals existence is profoundly compounded
with challenging issues of isolation, exclusion, deep shame, despair,
fear and on occasions an unexplainable soul-loss. This way of life
leads to excessive self centeredness, irresponsibility and lead
to ego driven behaviours.
By
ego driven behaviours we mean a life that is dominated by self deception,
deceit, self neglect, resentment, bad will, rejection, boredom,
desperation, anxiety, guilt, loneliness, denial, compulsion, abandonment
and loss of identity.
One
of the key attributes to addiction is where the addicted person
is so obsessed with the drug/alcohol and becomes so self centred
and thinks ‘only’ about him or herself at the exclusion
of all others and everything else.
This
destructive way of being often leads to a loss of self-control and
an innate inability to manage their lives, their jobs as well as
their relationships.
The
essential aim of recovery is to help individuals to transcend and
elevate their circumstance and their way of being from active addiction
towards a life of well-being, good health and increase personal
awareness.
As
well as abstaining from drugs/alcohol, personal awareness is paramount
in developing many of the character qualities that help individuals
to become more balanced, integrated and enlightened.
Some of the character qualities that are fundamental to improving
personal awareness, higher consciousness and spiritual development
include striving to become:
• Responsible
• Self accepting
• Self-caring
• Willing to change
• Open minded
• Heart-centred
• Honest
• Transparent/Genuine
• Compassionate
• Empathic
• Motivational
• Solution focused
• Soulution inspired
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