The Recovery College offers everyone, over the age of 16, the opportunity to learn from each other and to develop skills to manage their own recovery journey or to begin a new one. Our students include those who have lived experience, carers, staff, volunteers and members of the general public.
Courses are currently delivered using a hybrid approach of online and face to face sessions. Our online courses are delivered via live sessions with our facilitators, and our face to face courses take place in various community venues throughout the Northern Trust region, such as local volunteer centres, leisure centres and communal facilities. *Please see our 2 monthly timetables below for further information, as course delivery method changes from term to term.
Our courses are used to teach not treat. Our philosophy being to deliver an educational rather than a therapeutic approach, where we focus on strengths, talents and resources
to help explore possibilities and develop skills in order to assist you in
achieving your goals and ambitions.
Everyone has challenges, everyone can learn. Our courses provide the
opportunities to encourage individual recovery, wellness, empowerment,
progress and life-long learning.
Routed in Recovery
Recovery means something different to everyone. Here, at the College, we
mean having the ability to live a satisfying life.
Whether or not you have continuing difficulties with your mental health
or you care for someone who has, together we can identify and maintain
routes to recovery.
Four of the signposts identified by people with lived experience are Hope,
Opportunity, Power and Education (H.O.P.E.)
Hope – Is central to recovery and some would say that without hope recovery
is impossible. We base some of our courses around principle of hope.
Opportunity – Refers to all individuals having the same life chances. The
courses we offer are designed to enable you to maximise
opportunities to understand and tell your own recovery story.
Power – Individuals have the power within themselves to take control of their
own difficulties, services and lives. By understanding what has happened to
you, what you need to achieve your own recovery. Our prospectus contains
various topics of interest that can help you focus on self-management,
choice and responsibility – more insight to help fuel your personal journey.
Education – In this context, has best been summed up by a former student
of The Northern Region College,
“Education is learning about you as a person, putting yourself in the centre
of your world. Education is about looking after yourself, looking at your
strengths, what is within you and drawing on resources when you are
challenged.”
We provide resources to help you meet such challenges – to learn, maintain
and control, and in doing so enabling you to understand and tell your own
recovery story.
If you would like to find out more background information about the concept of recovery within the NHS Trusts please visit the ImRoc website
To find out more information please contact us:
recovery.college@northerntrust.hscni.net
Telephone – 028 9441 3449
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THE RECOVERY COLLEGE PROSPECTUS
**Our staff are busy working on our 2024/25 Prospectus which will be available soon. When it is, please click on the link that will appear below to see the courses we are offering, and hope to offer, throughout our academic year.
**COMING SOON!! – PROSPECTUS 2024/25**
THE RECOVERY COLLEGE TIMETABLE
TIMETABLES: Timetables are published every 2 months. Please click the link that will appear below to see our timetable for courses, and delivery method ie. online or face to face. If you are unsure how to use Zoom for online courses or need some help, please refer to our guide via the ‘Zoom Quick Guide’ link below, to take you through the process.
**COMING SOON!! – TIMETABLE SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2024**
You can enroll on a course by filling out the registration form below:
We are delighted to announce we now have a Recovery Newsletter. To view please click the link below