Recovery Support
A Wellness Recovery Action Plan keeps useful knowledge in your own words
Explore WRAP as a personal recovery planning process, with a practical way to organise everyday tools, support preferences and updates over time.
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Support journal
Recovery Routines
Urge surfing means observing a craving without treating it as an instruction
Urge surfing offers a way to notice cravings without immediately acting on them. Learn the purpose of the exercise and when extra support matters.
Peer Support
Recovery Dharma brings Buddhist practices into a peer-support setting
Recovery Dharma combines peer support with Buddhist-inspired practices. Understand the meeting approach and what to ask before joining a group.
Recovery Support
A recovery college is built around learning, not earning a university degree
Recovery colleges offer learning shaped by lived experience and professional knowledge. Find out what to ask about courses, access and existing treatment.
Recovery Support
Assertive continuing care brings follow-up into a young person’s daily setting
Assertive continuing care brings follow-up into daily life after adolescent substance-use treatment. Learn what to ask about visits, goals and coordination.
Peer Support
Dual-recovery peer groups make space for more than one diagnosis
Dual-recovery peer support recognises mental-health and substance-use concerns together. Check the group’s format and boundaries before deciding whether it fits.
Recovery Routines
Behavioural activation starts by planning an action, not waiting for motivation
Behavioural activation connects small planned activities with mood. Explore a practical way to discuss it during recovery without turning it into a productivity test.
Understanding recovery
Community reinforcement: building rewarding alternatives during recovery
The community reinforcement approach looks at everyday rewards, relationships and practical barriers as part of substance-use treatment, alongside other needed care.
Recovery Support
Recovery management checkups make follow-up part of the plan
Recovery management checkups use planned contact to identify changing support needs. Learn what the research studied and what to ask a local service.