INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING

The goal of individual and group counselling is to help and improve the everyday functioning of the client. A major focus of counselling involves helping the client to identify, understand and reflect on his or her difficulties and find effective coping strategies so he or she may begin to fulfill their potential, achieve more satisfaction, and restore a sense of well-being into their lives. This can be achieved by helping the client to develop skills, find solutions, make decisions, and develop effective coping strategies to deal with the stresses of everyday life. Counselling is also used to explore the deep rooted problems that can often suppress or stunt the client's autonomy, passion and personal power. An emphasis is placed on a holistic approach to counselling. BAC-IN believes in providing care and services that includes the unique physical, social, psychological, emotional, spiritual and cultural needs of each client.

A Holistic approach is used that reaches a broader range of healing possibilities for the whole person by involving these dimensions collectively for effective & lasting healing from substance dependency.

ADDICTION THERAPY

BAC-IN provides a therapeutic counselling service for African/Caribbean, South Asian and Dual Heritage communities that addresses their cultural concerns, acknowledges their cultural experiences and also explores the underlying psychological/ emotional/spiritual causes that can under-pin the drug and alcohol addiction. The illness of addiction wounds many aspects of the unique person; the therapy is purposefully designed to treat these aspects of the person to bring him or her to a new life and a new way of being. The treatment plan begins by identifying all the underlying issues of distress that move a person to chemicals and or other destructive behaviours. Issues such as internalised racism, ostracism, oppression, discrimination, exploitation, prejudice, trauma, anxiety, abuse, depression, feelings of not fitting in, not belonging, issue's with cultural/racial identity, spirituality, shame, cultural displacement, family pressures or other personal disadvantages. The treatment plan then combines life-changing experiences that can revive and awaken the person's sense of integrity, sense of self-worth, sense of purpose, also enhance his or her capacity for self-empowerment and self autonomy.

MENTORING

Mentoring is about one person helping another to achieve something in a respectful, non-judgemental and non-exploitative manner. Mentoring is not about telling the person what to do but rather how to do something. The aims of mentoring are: to empower, to build confidence, to help attain goals and to encourage informed choice.

ADVOCACY

An advocate is a person who acts on behalf of and alongside the person being represented to support their case with influential others. The benefits of this is to increase the persons sense of power, increase their capacity of choices and help the person to become more confident, assertive and independent.

BAC-IN MISSION STATEMENT

To provide culturally sensitive and culturally appropriate services to individuals and families from African/Caribbean, South Asian and Dual Heritage backgrounds to be able to address and treat substance misuse and related psychological issues.

VALUES

Integrity, Trust, Transparency, Respect, Genuineness, Compassion, Empathy, Confidentiality and Education are values of the BAC-IN Project.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

The founders of the BAC-IN Project are all ex-users and collectively have extensive knowledge, life experiences and working experience within the drug/alcohol field, with cultural issues, psychological counselling, mental health issues, complementary healing, group work, family support work, mentoring, peer advocacy, drug support work, research, cultural competence training and consultancy.