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It outlines the HSE Soilse rehabilitation and recovery programme and explains why linking with the Department of Adult and Community Education, NUI Maynooth supports both structural and individual gaps in educational progression. 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It begins with a brief outline of the HSE Soilse rehabilitation and recovery programme and the rationale for seeking association with the Department of Adult and Community Education NUI Maynooth as a way of bridging both the structural and individual gaps that recovering people have en route to educational progression. A full account is presented of the actual Return to Learning (RtL) course, which employed a functional context education methodology and integrated literacy approach, from the reflections of the tutors who delivered the course. The Soilse/NUIM RtL is unique in terms of an adult education programme in Ireland in that it tried to grapple with two distinct yet interrelated issues; recovery from drug addiction and educational progression. The following article attempts to give a full and honest account of the programme and its outcomes.  \nSoilse: organisational background.  \nSoilse (the name means Light in Irish) was setup asthe Health Service Executive Northern Sector’s Addiction Rehabilitation, Education and Training Centre. It opened in 1992 following discussion with drug users (former and active) and those involved in providing drug services (statutory, voluntary, and community) concerning the needs of people seeking recovery from drug addiction. It set out to address the personal, social, and vocational needs of participants who had typically experienced significant marginalisation, disadvantage and disempowerment as a result of socio-economic and structural inequalities.  \nSoilse’s work has continued to develop in the intervening years to the point where it now provides two distinct strands ofa recovery programme. These are  \ndivided into pre-treatment and post-treatment phases which form part ofa continuum of care for the individual. Soilse is based in two locations with the pretreatment stabilisation/detox programme being carried out in Henrietta Place (HP) and post-treatment drug free vocational, educational and career guidance programme located in North Frederick st. The rest ofthe article will concentrate on the work carried out in the North Frederick st (Soilse NF) facility.  \nSoilseand the Continuum of Care  \nThe Soilse model works in the context of addiction. It believes addicted people typically suffer progressive deterioration of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Soilse’s participants also suffer acute social exclusion being characterised by early school leaving; poor literacy skills; criminal records; homelessness and poor general health (diet/alcohol/blood borne viruses/ smoking) . Soilse realises that where addiction exists its goal is to dismantle dependency through personal and social development by utilising adult education and group centred processes.  \nSoilse operates along a continuum of care which begins with the addicted person accessing drug services, perhaps through the Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) programme. The continuum aims to bring people along this scale through the various stages of recovery such as detoxification, treatment, rehabilitation and finally to the point of abstinence and reintegration. The continuum is an ideal of progression, however, such is the lack of movement from the starting point of MMT that this particular service has come in for severe criticism. A report from the Comptroller and Auditor General states that of the 8,000 people on methadone maintenance in the greater Dublin area in 2009 only 1.25 percent progressed on to detoxification treatment or followon rehabilitation (Irish Times, 6 June 2009). It is movement along this continuum that Soilse’s first step in Henrietta Place and later North Frederick’s st. adult education and guidance programme seeks to accommodate wit","cbCaitlrfVaruoRf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitlrfVaruoRf","pdf",114687,"English","# Soilse: organisational background\n## Soilse and the continuum of care\n# The Soilse programme","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the Return to Learning (RtL) course in the Soilse project?\",\"answer\":\"The course supports educational progression for recovering heroin addicts and serves as a final stage of engagement before discharge and transition to aftercare.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Soilse structure care for participants?\",\"answer\":\"Soilse provides a continuum of care with pre-treatment stabilisation/detox and post-treatment drug-free vocational, educational, and career guidance phases.\"},{\"question\":\"What teaching approach does the RtL course use?\",\"answer\":\"The RtL course employs a functional-context education methodology with an integrated literacy approach, informed by tutor reflections.\"}]","Return to Education for Recovering Drug Addicts - the Soilse Project | PDF",1792067061,23]