Creating Communities for Addiction Recovery

Learn to create a positive research/action alliance similar to that of DePaul University and the Oxford House community This book reviews important research conducted in a 13-year collaborative partnership between Oxford House (a community-based, self-run residential substance abuse recovery program) and DePaul University. It also presents practical guidelines for developing effective action research collaborative programs that can cultivate and maintain mutually beneficial community/research partnerships. Creating Communities for Addiction Recovery: The Oxford House Model presents and examines: - practical guidelines for developing effective action research collaboratives focusing on the development of trust, respecting the personal experiences of the community members and the group, commitment to serving the community, validating findings with organization members, and accountability - the experiences and attitudes of Oxford House community members in light of their participation in the collaborative research projects described in the book - the essentials of designing and creating an efficient and productive yet homey residential community environment for addicted persons - the factors that make Oxford Houses in the United States and Australia safe and sober settings for persons in recovery - the differential growth among self-governed substance abuse recovery homes for men and for womenwith a focus on the impact of state loan programs and the utilization of technical assistance in relation to the expansion of women's houses as compared with men's - the economic advantages of the Oxford House model as compared with other treatment and incarceration alternatives - the roles of ethnicity and gender in substance abuse recovery - the structural social support of Oxford House menand the impact of parenthood on these men's substance use patterns and recovery attempts - the medical care (need and utilization) patterns of a substance abusing and recovering population - how Oxford House's African-American community functions as a source of abstinent social networks - the sense of community among women and women with children living in Oxford Houseswith emphasis on how the presence of children impacts the household - perspectives of leadership by women (some with children, some without) affiliated with Oxford Houses The information in this book shows that the rules of the game have changed. Substance abusers now can take charge of their own recovery in effective and efficient ways, and practitioners can find low-cost housing options for their clients with substance abuse problems. As a part of your professional/teaching collection, Creating Communities for Addiction Recovery can help you or your students take understand and make effective use of this rapidly evolving paradigm of community-based recovery.

Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari, Margaret Davis

Part 1 THE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS; Chapter 1 Cultivating and Maintaining Effective Action Research Part nerships: The DePaul and Oxford House Collaborative, Margaret I. Davis, Bradley D. Olson, Leonard A. Jason, Josefina Alvarez, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 2 Attitudes of Community Members as a Function of Part icipatory Research with Oxford Houses, Leonard A. Jason, Margaret I. Davis, Bradley D. Olson, Joseph R. Ferrari, Josefina Alvarez; Part 2 RESIDENCE FOR RECOVERY; Chapter 3 Creating a Home to Promote Recovery: The Physical Environments of Oxford House, Joseph R. Ferrari, Leonard A. Jason, Kelly C. Sasser, Margaret I. Davis, Bradley D. Olson; Chapter 4 This Is My Neighborhood: Comparing United States and Australian Oxford House Neighborhoods, Joseph R. Ferrari, Leonard A. Jason, Ron Blake, Margaret I. Davis, Bradley D. Olson; Chapter 5 The Influence of Policy on the Differential Expansion of Male and Female Self-Run Recovery Settings, Jordan M. Braciszewski, Bradley D. Olson, Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 6 Economic Costs of Oxford House Inpatient Treatment and Incarceration: A Preliminary Report, Bradley D. Olson, Judah J. Viola, Leonard A. Jason, Margaret I. Davis, Joseph R. Ferrari, Olga Rabin-Belyaev; Part 3 RESIDENTS IN RECOVERY; Chapter 7 Stress and Coping: The Roles of Ethnicity and Gender in Substance Abuse Recovery, Justin T. Brown, Margaret I. Davis, Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 8 Structural Social Support: Impact on Adult Substance Use and Recovery Attempts, Kerri L. Kim, Margaret I. Davis, Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 9 Medical Care of Individuals Residing in Substance Abuse Recovery Homes: An Analysis of Need and Utilization, Julie E. Ponitz, Bradley D. Olson, Leonard A. Jason, Margaret I. Davis, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 10 African American Oxford House Residents: Sources of Abstinent Social Networks, Andrea M. Flynn, Josefina Alvarez, Leonard A. Jason, Bradley D. Olson, Joseph R. Ferrari, Margaret I. Davis; Chapter 11 Children, Women, and Substance Abuse: A Look at Recovery in a Communal Setting, Lucía d'Arlach, Bradley D. Olson, Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari; Chapter 12 Women Leadership in Oxford House: Examining Their Strengths and Challenges, Margaret I. Davis, Marta M. Dziekan, Elizabeth V. Horin, Leonard A. Jason, Joseph R. Ferrari, Bradley D. Olson;