One to One Support and Therapeutic Group Work

Through One to One support and therapeutic group work BAC-IN offers support that encourages the overall development of the service user. The One to One and group support challenges and addresses issues associated with alcoholism, drug addiction, co-dependency and other self-destructive behaviours. Part of the therapeutic group work focuses on service users cultural, psychological, emotional, religious, spiritual and traditional aspects of their developmental journeys of self-transformation.

Outreach Work

BAC-IN carries out regular outreach work within the African-Caribbean, South Asian and Dual Heritage communities. Part of this involves promoting the service and creating awareness amongst a range of community outlets such as temples, mosques, community centres and local shops as well as other general health authorities.

Peer Mentoring & Peer Advocacy

Peer mentoring gives BAC-IN service users the opportunity to share ideas, concerns and issues with their peers, providing emotional support and guidance to help service users to attain new goals and to be empowered to act as an agent of change within their own communities.

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.

What is a good mentor?

A mentor is an individual who can help another person to overcome their limitations and help awaken their inner potential to become productive people.

A good mentor is like a good teacher who has overcome their own difficulties, limitations and other self defeating behaviours. They demonstrate the ability to empathise, motivate and to empower others and they are consistent in the way they live their own life, a life of personal growth, ongoing personal reflection and are spiritually directed.

A mentor is a person who is responsible, reliable and someone who can inspire, someone you can look up to as a guide, as a role model. They lead by good example and they practice what they teach.

The qualities of a good mentor are a person who is living a proactive and fulfilling life, someone who is accomplishing their life goals. They can demonstrate the ability to communicate with confidence and are able to cultivate good relationship with family, colleagues and friends.

Peer Advocacy

Peer advocacy gives BAC-IN service users an opportunity to have a representative within the service act alongside them and on their behalf which provides them with support, often required during such situations. The benefits of this are to increase the persons sense of power, increase their capacity of choices and help the person to become more confident, assertive and independent.