Audience Formats

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Fr. Clarence Williams, CPPS, Ph.D. Director
P.O. Box 13559 Detroit, MI 48213 . Phone: (313) 521-7777 . Fax: (313) 521-7766
Email: ifrfr@aol.com

The Institute for Recovery from Racisms (IRR) facilitates teaching, consultation, program development, formation processes and training on the issue of racisms. The IRR programs have two components in their educational processes: information and formation. Programs are designed to address three areas of concern for recovery audiences: self-directed personal recovery work; working groups utilizing the recovery process to accomplish a task; and focal support group facilitation.

The vision, strategies, curriculum and educational processes (introduction to approach/certification to train others) for the various formats are as follows:

Vision	Strategy	Curriculum	Educational Process
Racially Sober Person	Personal reflection, insightful analysis to one’s own treatment plan	Working the Cycle of Recovery and devising one’s treatment plan to intervene on ‘everyday racisms.’	Introduction to Recovery concept with manual text Certification: Eight hours of training to teach others how to use the approach
Successfully Functioning Working Groups: Interracial Justice Committees, Commissions, Task Forces, Diversity Teams, Multicultural Awareness Groups	Using the concepts and language of the Cycle of Recovery various working groups can insure the integrity of their process and success of their task	Working the Cycle of Recovery as a Group Contract in a process that is open to interventions on the dysfunction present in the groups ‘everyday racisms’ manifested in the group’s work.	Introduction to Working Group approach is a three hour process. Certification: Sixteen hours of training on how to teach the process, which includes personal recovery training.
Focal Support Group for Recovery from Racisms is a New Family Formation experience in which the participants share their ‘everyday’ struggle to be racially sober and fully functioning human beings	Focal support group structure and dynamics assist members in recovery from their racisms through shared reflections, insights and treatment of their racialized self-identity.	The focal support group processes the Cycle of Recovery stages during a ten session program. The support group consists of six to twelve members meeting with their facilitator.	Introduction to focal support group work is a three hour process. Certification: The length of the training process is twenty-four hours. It includes the previous processes, and support group dynamics and protocol.