Recovery
Find a clear first step into support, learning and community connection.
U-ACT Institute
Train. Empower. Treat.
Building Community Recovery Infrastructure.
U-ACT helps people turn lived experience into trained recovery practice, LERO leadership and trusted community support that commissioners and funders can understand.
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Students
Move through training with a visible route from peer support to professional practice.
LERO Leaders
Build the structure, standards and confidence to organise recovery locally.
Commissioners
See governance, safeguarding, quality and outcomes described in plain language.
Funders
Understand the social value case without invented statistics or unsupported promises.
Partners
Work with an institute model that connects people, practice and community infrastructure.
The connected journey
One pathway from lived experience to commissioned services.
The journey is intentionally simple. Each stage prepares people for the next level of responsibility, from support skills through to local organisation building.
- 01
Lived Experience
Start with the knowledge, insight and motivation that comes from real recovery journeys.
- 02
Peer Recovery Support (PRS)
Learn how to support others safely, with boundaries, listening skills and recovery focus.
- 03
Certified Professional Recovery Coach (CPRC)
Build a coaching identity with structure, reflection and professional confidence.
- 04
Systemic Wellness Practitioner (SWP)
Understand the wider systems around people: family, housing, work, services and community.
- 05
Case Manager
Coordinate support, goals, referrals and evidence with care and accountability.
- 06
Master Practitioner
Prepare for senior practice, mentoring, supervision and local leadership.
- 07
Launch a LERO
Shape lived-experience leadership into a visible local recovery organisation.
- 08
Develop a CLERO / CIC
Strengthen governance, standards, partnerships and community accountability.
- 09
Deliver Commissioned Services
Work towards trusted, evidence-informed services that partners can understand and support.
Why communities need LEROs
Recovery is stronger when communities can organise their own leadership.
LEROs give lived-experience leaders a practical way to support people, strengthen families and work with local partners.
Local recovery leadership
People are more likely to trust support that is visible, local and shaped by lived experience.
Prevention
Early community support can help people before problems become harder, more isolated or more expensive to respond to.
Recovery capital
LEROs can build connection, confidence, skills, purpose and belonging around people and families.
Employment
Training creates a route from volunteer energy into recognised roles, work readiness and community enterprise.
Family wellbeing
Recovery affects partners, children, carers and wider family systems, not only the individual.
Community resilience
Strong local organisations help communities respond together instead of leaving people to cope alone.
Founding LERO Leaders
For people ready to turn lived experience into organised community leadership.
This is for people who want to learn, lead responsibly, build with others and create a local recovery organisation that can grow with standards and support around it.
A clear training pathway from first support skills to professional practice
Guidance for starting and strengthening a LERO, CLERO or CIC route
Professional standards, boundaries, supervision and reflective practice
AI-supported learning, navigation and preparation through MAUNi
A community of peers learning on Tuesday and Thursday sessions
A simple WhatsApp starting point for people who need a human route in
Commissioners
A clear view of governance, standards and community value.
U-ACT presents community recovery work in a way that is easier to discuss, supervise, fund and improve, while staying careful about what is already proven and what is still developing.
Governance
A pathway that helps local leaders move from informal activity towards clearer roles, responsibilities and accountability.
Evidence-informed practice
Training and reflection are framed around learning, documentation and careful improvement rather than unsupported claims.
Safeguarding
The model keeps human support, boundaries, escalation and appropriate supervision visible.
Professional standards
Progression through U-ACT makes competence, practice development and role expectations easier to understand.
Quality assurance
A shared pathway supports consistent language, training expectations and review across local organisations.
Community outcomes
The focus is practical: connection, stability, skills, family wellbeing and stronger local recovery capacity.
Technology for Public Benefit
MAUNi is the digital infrastructure behind the human work.
MAUNi supports learning access, WhatsApp entry, knowledge support and future professional tools. AI is used to assist people with navigation and reflection, not to replace relationships, supervision or safeguarding judgement.
U-ACT can make responsible use of mission-aligned nonprofit technology support, including Google for Nonprofits where available, while avoiding any implication that technology providers endorse the programme.
- Responsible AI for learning and navigation
- Digital inclusion through simple mobile-first entry
- Secure cloud services used in service of community benefit
- Technology choices guided by stewardship, privacy and public value
What happens next
After WhatsApp, the next steps are simple.
- Step 1
Connect
Start with WhatsApp so a person can be welcomed and guided without a complicated form.
- Step 2
Join Tuesday / Thursday sessions
Meet the learning community and understand the rhythm of training, support and practice.
- Step 3
Choose your pathway
Decide whether the first step is student learning, recovery coaching or LERO development.
- Step 4
Launch your community organisation
Work towards a local recovery organisation with training, standards and community support around it.
Begin today
Become a Founding LERO Leader.
If you are ready to learn, organise and build recovery leadership in your community, start the builder and take the first step.