The Ley Programme outline
Stage 1 - Safety Net |
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| Duration - 2 weeks |
This Stage enables residents to settle into the Community. Sleep patterns are stabilised and relationships with Staff and residents established. | |||
Stage 2 - Induction |
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| Duration - 8 Weeks |
This Stage enables residents to integrate themselves into the therapeutic programme. Residents attend seminar programmes, participate in individual key work sessions, participate in groups and the work structure, and complete daily diary entries. | |||
Stage 3 - The Work |
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| Duration - About 22 weeks |
This Stage involves taking on increased responsibility. Residents participate in the full range of therapeutic activities. They are encouraged to explore the past with the purpose of coming to terms with their own feelings, beliefs, attitudes and behaviour, and thus developing personal qualities, self-awareness, self-worth, self-confidence and self-discipline. | |||
Stage 4 - Preparing for the Future |
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| Duration - About 8 weeks |
This Stage enables residents to plan and prepare for their future, start socialising outside the Community and go to voluntary work. During this stage, residents are expected to act as role models and undergo auxiliary staff training. They attend specific workshops aimed at preparing them for moving out of the Ley, which includes finance and budgeting, alcohol use and cross addiction, education, leisure, voluntary work and employment. | |||
Stage 5- Re-entry |
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| Duration - About 12 weeks |
At this stage, residents are expected to be in full time employment and living at the Ley but financially independent from it. Stage 5 residents attend a group once a week and act as auxiliary staff. | |||
Stage 6 - Aftercare |
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| Duration - Open ended | This Stage is an open ended period, offering support to residents who have completed the programme and remain living in the Oxford area. Ley staff run a weekly group for Stage 6 ex-residents at a venue in Oxford City. | |||
