Importance of Lived Experience in a Recovery-Oriented System of Care

ISSUP and Faces & Voices of Recovery bring you the Global Recovery Network Webinars, a series of eight webinars taking place over the coming months, grouped under three core themes that explore global perspectives on recovery support.

Theme 1: Core Foundations of Recovery.

Join us for Part 3: Importance of Lived Experience in a Recovery-Oriented System of Care, where we’ll explore how lived experience shapes person-centred recovery, informs peer-led approaches, and influences global policy and practice.

Date: Tuesday, 22nd July 2025

Time: 2:00 PM London | 9:00 AM ET 

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Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC) rely on lived experience as a cornerstone for designing effective, person-centred supports. This session explores how lived experience drives recovery in diverse cultural and systemic contexts across the globe. Participants will examine international perspectives on integrating peer-led models, enhancing equity, and shaping policies that recognise recovery as a lifelong, community-driven process.

Through stories, frameworks, and global best practices, attendees will leave equipped to expand the impact of lived experience in recovery systems, regardless of geographic or resource limitations. Key aspects to be covered include:

• Welcome & Introduction

• Part 1: The Global Value of Lived Experience

• Part 2: Building ROSC with Lived Experience at the Core 

• Part 3: Equity, Culture, and Inclusion in Global Recovery

• Part 4: Tools, Practice, and Policy

• Wrap-Up and Call to Action

Intended audience:

This webinar is intended for:

• National Drug Councils and policymakers

• Civil society organisations involved in recovery

• Recovery champions and advocates

• Professionals and practitioners in the field of recovery

• People with lived experience in recovery

• Academics and researchers specialising in recovery

Learning outcomes:

By attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the role of lived experience within a ROSC framework across different global contexts.

2. Identify strategies for integrating peer voices into system design, service delivery, and leadership worldwide.

3. Examine the intersection of culture, policy, and equity in promoting recovery-centred approaches internationally.

4. Apply global insights and tools to strengthen local ROSC efforts using lived experience as a guiding principle.

Presenter:

Julia Ojeda

For 30+ years Julia Ojeda has been providing solution-based leadership training and consultation in the education, healthcare, and social services sectors, as an experienced facilitator, trainer, coach, networker, and change agent. Her work is rooted in an equitable, people-centered, integrated approach to progressive change, system-wide reform, strategic management, and organizational development. From 2013-2023, she managed Peer Recovery Support Services for the Massachusetts (MA) Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS). She was instrumental in the growth of Peer Recovery Support Centers in MA, which grew from 5 in 2023, to what is now 39 by 2024.

She created the first statewide Peer Recovery Education Program with 12 curriculums and 19 facilitators in recovery, where over 7000 MA residents participated. She championed the first deaf/hard of hearing peer recovery coach team in the state, possibly the country and managed MOAR (MA Organization for Addiction Recovery) for ten years. 

As a person in sustained, long-term recovery and an active member of the recovery community, including the national Habla Hispana recovery network, she is a champion for the peer recoveryworkforce movement and the development of Recovery Oriented Systems of Care promoting Prevention, Intervention and Treatment efforts locally and nationally. 

Language:

The event will be in English with interpretation available in Spanish.

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Interpretation

Interpretation Instructions for Spanish speakers:

Access the Spanish Interpretation: https://meeting.interactio.com/link/recovery#app

Enter the meeting code: recovery
Select the language channel: Spanish

A few important details on how to listen to the interpretation:

By phone: The best way is to open the Interactio app and listen to the interpretation on your phone while watching the video meeting through your computer;

By computer: If you want to listen to the interpretation on the same device as the video meeting, you will need to select 'No Audio' in the GoToWebinar Control Panel, and only listen through the Interactio web app at meeting.interactio.com.
 

Webinars and online events delivered and hosted by the International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP) are provided for informational purposes only. They are educational in nature and do not constitute medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.