The Community Living Integration Club (CLIC) for Women in Residential Recovery from Sex Trafficking
Toni Thompson, DrOT, OTR/L, NDT | September 23 | 11:45 am-12:45 pm
Topic: Direct Service, Programming | Knowledge Level: Intermediate
Literature review highlights the crucial importance of community integration for successful recovery in survivors of trafficking and scarcity of community integration programs (Shigekane, 2007; Wickham, 2009). The time-efficient, cost-effective Community Living Integration Club (CLIC) emerged as a doctoral capstone. The format encompassed 10 women in a residential recovery program participating in a six-week trauma-informed, client-driven club comprised of discussion topics and community-based activities to facilitate community integration. CLIC members selected six discussion topics, including felon-friendly housing, personal relationships, and community activities. Members generated plans for exploring these options in the local community. Transition Behavior Scales-3 (TBS-3) and Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), both with self-report, provided reliable outcomes. Objective findings, along with pre-club and post-club subjective reviews, provided additional outcomes. CLIC outcomes showed specific improvements in skills in some participants. Qualitative findings showed improvements in 80% of participants in self-reported needs and goals. The Club provided opportunities for members to generate plans for life in their community after completion of the recovery program. The CLIC offers a time-efficient, cost-effective, trauma-informed, occupation-based, client-centered approach in the under-served and under-funded area of community integration. This presentation includes interactive discussion of methods to incorporate this program into multiple settings and adapt to various genders, cultures, ethnicities, and ages.
Presentation Objectives:
· Present a short summary of evidence for lack of community integration services
· Describe short-term, client-centered group experiences and findings
· Assist attendees to determine applications of CLIC to various cultures, genders, ages, settings, and ethnicities