The Recovery Rocks Community story
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of the Recovery Rocks Community of peers in recovery.
Design/methodology/approach
Description of history of the community.
Findings
The community is successful in providing mutual support in members journeys of recovery.
Research limitations/implications
The community exists in Perth, Western Australia.
Practical implications
Similar communities might be developed by groups of peers in other places.
Social implications
Offers an innovative, peer support community approach to facilitating recovery.
Originality/value
Offers an innovative approach to fostering recovery in a peer support community that could act as a model for the development of other similar communities.
Keywords
Citation
Waegeli, A. (2014), "The Recovery Rocks Community story", Mental Health and Social Inclusion, Vol. 18 No. 2, pp. 61-67. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHSI-03-2014-0010
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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