David Clark

David describes two important aims for recovery communities or groups: Can the connectedness of recovery communities inspire similar changes more broadly across the wider community? Can they be the glue or the inspiration for re-engaging a range of excluded and marginalised groups and individuals? Wulf reminds us that treatment is too transactional.

When David and colleagues run their Inclusive Recovery Cities workshops, they encourage individuals and groups to engage with four quadrants: sport, art and recreation; employment, training and education; volunteering and community involvement, and mutual aid and recovery...

One of the reasons for working with recovery capital is that it gave David and colleagues a metric, something they could use to count things that were meaningful in a person’s life, positive things that people would want to achieve in their recovery journey. Tools to measure outcomes of treatment only focused on the reduction...