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Becoming a Resident at River Garden
River Garden Auchincruive is a residential community for people who are recently abstinent from drugs and/or alcohol, where people live and work together in a place of comfort, nurture, routine, natural beauty and safety, with high levels of peer support and increasing responsibility and autonomy over a period of time that allows them to heal and recover. It is an asset-based programme that will help you to build on your strengths and interests.
Access to a place at River Garden Auchincruive is free if you are motivated to turn your life around. In return for your residential place, we will ask you to contribute to the life of the community through voluntary work. In order to apply you must be motivated to volunteer to join the project. IF you would like to be one of the first River Garden community residents contact us using the contact box below.
There is a 4 stage progression from volunteer helper (0-3 months), to volunteer trainee (4-16 months), employee (17-36 months), with the opportunity to remain an employee living off site or to progress to management.
Access to a place at River Garden Auchincruive is free if you are motivated to turn your life around. In return for your residential place, we will ask you to contribute to the life of the community through voluntary work. In order to apply you must be motivated to volunteer to join the project. IF you would like to be one of the first River Garden community residents contact us using the contact box below.
There is a 4 stage progression from volunteer helper (0-3 months), to volunteer trainee (4-16 months), employee (17-36 months), with the opportunity to remain an employee living off site or to progress to management.
These time periods are not fixed as people need varying lengths of time to restore their physical and mental health and develop healthy routines and behaviours that will help you to desist from mind-altering substances in prolonged and sustained recovery. The process of living and working in the community through enriching and self-satisfying employment experiences and other purposeful activities will be therapeutic in as much that community members will be continually learning/relearning how to manage their own health and well-being, and learning/relearning how to support themselves economically, and spending their free time in nourishing pursuits that match their interests.
Information for Treatment Providers
River Garden Auchincruive is an asset-based programme for people who cannot manage to sustain long-term recovery from drug and/or alcohol addiction in the wider community without more structure and support while they go through the early stages of recovery. Typically it will help people who lack recovery capital or who have had two or more unsuccessful attempts in sustaining their recovery following treatment episodes in the community or residential rehabilitation settings.
River Garden Auchincruive is not a residential drug/alcohol treatment facility or rehab centre (in the traditional sense). It will be a wellbeing community for people who have recently achieved a short period of abstinence, most usually following a treatment programme.
Although abstinence is a requirement for entry, we are happy to work with GPs and treatment providers and their patients to initiate the admissions process while a patient is reducing any substitute prescribing so that there is a seamless transition from treatment to River Garden Auchincruive, minimising the chance of relapse between completion of treatment and entering the project.
River Garden Auchincruive is not a residential drug/alcohol treatment facility or rehab centre (in the traditional sense). It will be a wellbeing community for people who have recently achieved a short period of abstinence, most usually following a treatment programme.
Although abstinence is a requirement for entry, we are happy to work with GPs and treatment providers and their patients to initiate the admissions process while a patient is reducing any substitute prescribing so that there is a seamless transition from treatment to River Garden Auchincruive, minimising the chance of relapse between completion of treatment and entering the project.
How can you refer your clients, service-users or patients?
If you think that someone you are working with would benefit from this longer-term approach you can signpost them to us. You cannot make a direct referral to River Garden Auchincruive, as people seeking our help to join our residential recovery community need to take the initiative to contact us directly to show their motivation to volunteer to join the project. Simply contact us by using the contact box below.
Access to a place at River Garden Auchincruive is free for those who are motivated to turn their lives around. Applicants do not require funding from Social Work or any other source. In return for a residential place, participants will be expected to contribute to the life of the community through voluntary work.
Access to a place at River Garden Auchincruive is free for those who are motivated to turn their lives around. Applicants do not require funding from Social Work or any other source. In return for a residential place, participants will be expected to contribute to the life of the community through voluntary work.
INFORMATION FOR FAMILY MEMBERS
We know that having a family member with an addiction can devastate families. Years of lies, broken promises can tear families apart. Trust is easy to break and hard to restore. But with time, if a family member can get into long-term recovery, relationships can repair and trust can be rebuilt.
Families need their own recovery too. If you would like more help and advice for yourself please contact: Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol & Drugs.
Families need their own recovery too. If you would like more help and advice for yourself please contact: Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol & Drugs.
How can you refer your family members?
You cannot make a direct referral to River Garden Auchincruive, as people seeking our help to join our residential recovery community need to take the initiative to contact us directly to show their motivation to volunteer to join the project. However, we are happy to speak with you on the phone to discuss how you might encourage your loved one to apply to us for a place at River Garden Auchincruive. Simply contact us using the contact box below.
Access to a place at River Garden Auchincruive is free for those who are motivated to turn their lives around. Applicants do not require funding from Social Work or any other source. In return for a residential place, participants will be expected to contribute to the life of the community through voluntary work.
Access to a place at River Garden Auchincruive is free for those who are motivated to turn their lives around. Applicants do not require funding from Social Work or any other source. In return for a residential place, participants will be expected to contribute to the life of the community through voluntary work.
