Resources
Templates, masterclasses and guidance for building and sustaining a LERO — most of it made by LEROs.
From CLERO
Policies & procedures library
Around 30 policy and procedure templates, produced with the OHID-funded LERO Capacity Building Project from the collective experience of the board and members. Each document gives you what you need to build your own suite as your LERO grows — the organisational infrastructure your staff and volunteers need.
Members only. Sign in to download; we email members when a template is updated.National LERO Standards
The full 33-statement document, with the CHIME framework it's built on.
Online development sessions
The LERO Capacity Building Project is a national project funded by OHID to support the development and sustainability of LEROs. CLERO's Connectors and members have delivered and taken part in its masterclasses, mentor programme and resources. Watch the sessions here.
What is a LERO and why is it important?
Guidance for people and groups at every stage of LERO development, from small groups to growing organisations.
Asset mapping, co-design and co-delivery
Why this is a key feature of LERO development, and how to introduce it.
Mission, vision and values
What drives a LERO's people forward with a common purpose — and how it's created.
Employer essentials: getting started
Employing people for the first time, with experience from LEROs who've been through it.
Developing people
Growing from volunteer roots to a thriving peer-led organisation, and supporting people into valuable staff.
Equality, diversity, inclusion and decolonisation
What lived experience, healing and recovery look like with and without recognition of a person's culture and individuality.
Asset-based community development
What ABCD is, how it works, and how you may already be doing it in your LERO.
Other sessions and courses
Lived Experience Workforce
Delivered by Imroc, who also publish resources grounded in lived experience and recovery-oriented approaches.
imroc.org/trainingWriting a successful funding bid · Getting started with fundraising
Delivered by Lime Green Consulting, with free funding helpsheets.
limegreenconsulting.co.ukSetting up your CIC
Delivered by Andy Kershaw, South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau (SYFAB).
SYFAB newsletterLERO Leadership Programme
Developed and delivered by Recovery Connections on behalf of the Capacity Building Project. Leaders from LEROs across England come together weekly and achieve a nationally recognised Level 3 qualification.
recoveryconnections.org.ukPrototype note: video tiles are placeholders. The live page embeds the existing YouTube masterclasses; we need the video IDs from the Wix site or CLERO's channel.
Guidance we point people to
Commissioning quality standard: alcohol and drug services
Guidance for local authorities on commissioning effective alcohol and drug treatment and recovery services.
GOV.UK / OHIDA guide to social return on investment for alcohol and drug treatment commissioners
How commissioners can measure and present the social value of treatment and recovery.
GOV.UK / Public Health EnglandAnti-stigma toolkit: reducing addiction-related stigma
Practical tools to help people in recovery, families, professionals and activists get involved in stigma prevention.
ATTC Network (Central East)Non-profit start-up toolbox
Everything for setting up a charity CIO, charitable company or CIC: registration, constitutions, funding, bank accounts, insurance.
Charity Excellence FrameworkResearch
We support LEROs to develop expertise in peer research. Our Peer Research Training Programme has been piloted successfully: people in recovery who complete it can measure how well their LERO fits the standards, building skills and adding value to the host organisation at the same time. Over time we hope CLERO membership becomes a badge of excellence and a community of learning.
Lived experience research as a resource for recovery: a mixed methods study
Suggests the usefulness of lived-experience research resources, presented in user-friendly formats, in the lives of people who experience mental health issues.
BMC Psychiatry, 2020Conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health: systematic review and narrative synthesis
A theoretically defensible and robust synthesis of people's experiences of recovery, providing an empirical basis for recovery-oriented research and practice.
British Journal of Psychiatry, 2011 — the CHIME paperRecovery: the many paths to wellness
A chapter from the US Surgeon General's report on alcohol, drugs and health.
US Department of Health and Human Services — Kelly, Bergman, Hoeppner, Vilsaint & White