In this month’s Ballymun Recovery Podcast, Host Jimmy Bell talks to Boxing Clever Programme Co-ordinator Karl O’Brien and two Boxing clever participants Christopher and Lisa about the Boxing Clever Programme. “Boxing Clever is a twenty-week integrated educational, substance use recovery and fitness programme that aims to support participants to develop more resilient identities, while encouraging educational achievement, physical wellness, and reduction in harmful or risky behaviours. It offers a marginalised and socially excluded group, stable and drug free service users, the opportunity to reintegrate into mainstream society via the medium of a psycho-educational framework underpinned by the philosophy of peer mentoring”. 

In addition to the discussion, we have also included two recovery stories from Ballymun Recovery stories

For more Information about the programme see Boxing Clever: Impact and outcomes of an integrated education, sport and substance use rehabilitation programme (byap.ie)