OUR SERVICES

Care at our centre begins with an Intake Assessmentconducted by trained peer supporters, to:

1. Provide basic addiction and recovery information

2. Determine usage nature and pattern

3. Identify underlying reasons for use

4. Lay out different recovery options

5. Create a care plan together based on what is discovered

Assessment is carried out at the beginning of recovery, and is repeated as required.

Peer Support is an evidence-based practice with proven results. Our trained volunteers offer psychosocial support to new clients who need help navigating the various recovery resources. Leveraging on lived experience, our peer support volunteers share knowledge and model recovery to facilitate change.

12 Step Recovery is a Greenhouse programme adapted from other 12-step programmes such as Narcotics Anonymous, but open to Greenhouse clients only and unaffiliated to these programmes.

12 Step Recovery consists of meetings and stepwork:

• Meetings are a safe way to meet others who are also in recovery.

• Stepwork is done with a sponsor who is a mentor through the steps, who will hold space and explore options with their sponsees, rather than give advice or impose their values on them.

Our Greenhouse chat group provides a simple and convenient way to stay connected throughout the day. It is also a great way of getting support whenever we need to reach out for help. Checking in, sharing recovery information, as well as our daily struggles and victories, helps us build healthy coping mechanisms that replace harmful behaviours.

Because recovery can be a complex, long term process with many parts to it, we have a robust case management process in place to:-

1. Conduct periodic assessments with clients

2. Track recovery progress

3. Recommend adjustments to care plan as needed

4. Suggest options for next recovery phase

Our case management service helps to simplify the process and provide a seamless experience of recovery from end to end.

Referral to medical care that is non-judgemental and affirming is an integral part of our integrated consultation strategy. These may include referral for:-

1. Detox (for clients who require medical supervision in order to safely stop using)

2. Testing and/or treatment of HIV and/or other sexually transmitted infections

3. Assessment and/or treatment of mental health conditions

4. Other general health issues

We have established professional referral arrangements with a network of relevant and reliable service providers. This helps to ensure that our customised interventions are holistic and integrated.

A sense of connection is essential to recovery, and we emphasise community support as a means of ensuring that we do not feel alone in our journey. We take great pains to foster a strong sense of community amongst our clients. Casual outings and festive celebrations help us safely build support networks that last.

Just once a week, we want our clients to have a home-cooked meal that nourishes both body and soul, shared with their chosen family before recovery meetings.

At The Greenhouse, we serve plant-based meals to help ensure we can support and care for the varied needs of every member of our recovery family throughout their healthspan.

Counselling helps to address underlying issues that cause addiction in a person-centric manner. It is especially helpful in addressing acute issues or issues that may be too personal to address in a group setting.

We provide data-driven, evidence-based, and trauma-informed counselling by professional counsellors.

SMART stands for ’Self Management And Recovery Training’. Facilitated by our clinical team, SMART’s science-based approach emphasises self-empowerment and self-reliance. SMART’s practical tools are proven effective to support and sustain successful long-term life change.

The four-point programme helps our clients to build and maintain motivation, cope with urges, manage thoughts, feelings and behaviours and lead balanced lives.

Friends, family and partners of those who struggle with trauma, substance use and addiction often face a multitude of stressors themselves. This programme provides psychosocial education, a support network, self-discovery and self-care enablement for them.

Each December, we run an in-person workshop for community leaders, volunteers, and organisers to learn how to support those facing mental and emotional challenges.

This provides an invaluable opportunity for our volunteer peer supporters and counsellors to pay their recovery forward, through equipping and empowering participants to care for the communities they belong to.

Our signature SSTC workshop is an advanced-level workshop for healthcare providers. It equips those seeking to work with marginalised and vulnerable communities with the basic evidence-based knowledge they need to provide competent and compassionate care that will not further stigmatise or re-traumatise those who seek help, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

The Greenhouse is privileged to provide this workshop to social service practitioners across our nation, under a partnership with Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF).

Our Therapeutic Art and Horticulture programmes help clients to heal and grow through a different modality. Creating art and growing food become ways for them to process trauma beyond talk therapy, and also learn new skills that allow them to serve others and give back to The Greenhouse community.

The Greenhouse research program is an integral part of our data-driven approach to care. Our intern and volunteer researchers offer insight to our work through the design, analysis and generation of pre- and post-intervention measures, case notes reviews, community surveys, community reports and academic papers.

These allow us to constantly raise the standard of care at our centre through impact measurement and program evaluation, as well as provide accurate science communication to our funders, volunteers and community partners. Our research work eventually guides our outreach, education and training efforts, so that every step we take within and beyond our centre is informed, compassionate, and rooted in evidence.