What is Bac-in helping their clients to achieve?

· Level of self manageability
· Increased personal responsibility
· Improved health
· Awakening Higher consciousness
· Structure and routine
· Improved communication
· Forging strong relationships with families
· Improved life skills
· Healing family rifts
· Abstinence
· Harm reduction
· Improved decision making skills
· Stopping criminal activities
· Reduction in community fears and anti social activity
· Entering Volunteering opportunities, education and training, peer mentoring initiatives
· Employment
· Reemployment
· Supported referrals into tier 4 secondary care

Why clients choose to stay with Bac-in

Up to about 75% choose to stay with Bac-in. Their reasons for staying with Bac-in vary: We have identified the following from service user evaluation feedback:

· Cultural empathy
· Cultural identification
· Sense of belonging
· Being a part of
· Feeling included
· Acceptance
· Openness/Genuineness
· Trust
· Being heard
· Family environment
· Being respected as a person and not just seen as a symptom or a problem
· Out of hours community support
· Peer role models to inspire & motivate
· Out of hours pro-active/responsive phone support
· Following through
· One to one structured support
· Consistency of support
· Familiarity with all Bac-in support staff
· Boundary setting
· Discipline & Order
· Love & welcome
· Friendship
· Community and Unity
· Education about my condition
· Work with Cultural identity
· Social events
· Mutual Understanding
· Meeting new people
· Learning about life skills
· Personal development
· Help with underlying problems
· Solutions to problems