RECOVERY CAPITAL

RECOVERY
• A process of change through which individuals improve their health
and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full
potential in a community of their choice.

RECOVERY CAPITAL
• Comprises everything a person has working to his advantage
when trying to stay sober.
TYPES of RECOVERY CAPITAL
● Personal recovery capital.This includes an individual’s
physical and human capital. Physical capital is the available
resources to fulfil a person’s basic needs, like their health,
healthcare, financial resources, clothing, food, safe and
habitable shelter, and transportation.
● Family/social recovery capital. These resources relate to
intimate relationships with friends and family, relationships
with people in recovery, and supportive partners. It also
includes the availability of recovery-related social events
● Community recovery capital. This includes attitudes,
policies, and resources specifically related to helping
individuals resolve substance use disorders.

○ advocacy aimed at reducing stigma

○ a full range of addiction treatment resources
○ peer-led support such as mutual aid meetings
○ recovery support institutions such as high schools,
colleges, housing, recovery ministries and churches.
○ visible and diverse local recovery role models
○ resources
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communities and people of the following faith: Christian,
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Put simply, recovery capital can help sustain recovery
and reduce the risks of returning to use by increasing
a person’s support system. Recovery capital can
determine the success of natural and assisted
recovery, improve coping strategies and enhance the
quality of life in long-term recovery, and end addiction
careers. We must be mindful of increasing resources to
marginalized communities when addressing recovery
capital.
7 DOMAINS of RECOVERY CAPITAL
• Physical
• Intellectual
• Spiritual
• Emotional
• Social
• Environmental
• Occupational
PHYSICAL
• The most fundamental
• Physical capital is the available resources to fulfill a person’s
basic needs, like their health, healthcare, financial resources,
adequate clothing, enough food to eat, safe and habitable
shelter, and transportation.
INTELLECTUAL
• A person’s abilities, skills, mental health, and knowledge, like:
• problem-solving
• education and credentials
• interpersonal skills
• Cognitive skills
• Optimism/hopefulness on ourselves and learning how to
expect the best from another person (can be healing and
help keep people in recovery)
SPIRITUAL
• Beliefs, practices, values, principles
• -believing in a purpose beyond one’s self can be a powerful force for
staying positive and in recovery.
• A sense of meaning and purpose.
• -feeling as if what you do matters and is contributing to part of a
larger mission and purpose is important and powerful for staying in
recovery.
• Perception of one’s past, present, future
EMOTIONAL
• Self-esteem
• Ability to navigate challenging situations and achieve goals
• Self-awareness
• Perseverance
• Conscientiousness
SOCIAL
• All your relationships
• Could be intimate, family, work relationships, friends or members of a
person’s network.
• Quality is very important.
• Means surrounded by people who supports one’s recovery and
positive changes.
ENVIRONMENTAL
A community condussive or healthy for one’s recovery.
• This includes:
• -healthy work place
• -peer-based support groups
• -connections to conventional institutions- school, workplace, church, and
other community organizations which gives access to
• -employment and resolution of legal issues
• -educational development, employment, vocational skills, health care benefits
• -treatment (preference to treatment over punishment, general openness
about substance problems and willingness to help)
• -education empowering individuals in addiction
OCCUPATIONAL
A person has peace of mind not worried about his/her income being
enough to cover expenses.
Enough money to cover emergencies and future financial goals.
Recovery is not at risk.
• The more recovery capital a person has and the better quality,
the easier recovery will be…