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.

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