What seventeen years of this work builds.
U-ACT’s roots are in recovery coaching — training people with lived experience to guide others, and measuring what that guidance actually returns, in outcomes and in economic terms.
Recovery capital, measured.
Every dollar invested in recovery capital returns measurable value across criminal justice, health systems, and community life — not as a side effect of training, but as the actual goal coaches train toward.
$4 saved
for every $1 invested in recovery capital.
$3 saved
for every $1 invested in recovery capital.
$7 return
on every $1 invested — the case for funding recovery.
Source: US Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health — Facing Addiction in America, 2016.
A lived-experience workforce.
Every U-ACT-certified coach trains within a Lived Experience Recovery Organisation (LERO) model — practitioners with their own recovery journey, trained to a professional standard rather than relying on personal experience alone. That combination is what CLERO accreditation formally recognises.
Born in Africa. Operating globally.
We are not an international organisation that works in Africa. We are an African organisation that has taken our model to the world.
| Country | Role |
|---|---|
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | HQ — The Foundation Clinic, Johannesburg. Clinical, training, AI & VR. |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | We Do — Recovery & Resilience. Harm to Hope. London Recovery Coaching Campus. |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | VR treatment research. The Foundation Clinic NL. |
| 🇺🇬 Uganda | Community facilitation. LERO programme delivery (HOPE Foundation, Hoima). |
| 🇿🇲 Zambia | MAUNi UNZA — ISO 17024 CPRC training with the University of Zambia. |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | LERO facilitation. Community of practice. |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | Corporate relations. Global CSI partnerships. |
The model is working. Others are building on it.
U-ACT’s CLERO framework has been adopted by independent organisations across the UK and beyond — each operating at arm’s length, adapting the methodology, proving it works.
Ubuntu Academy Coach Training CIC
The UK training academy delivering the CLERO certification pathway. UK registered CIC · Co. 15189272.
MAUNi UNZA — University of Zambia
The first ISO 17024 accredited recovery coaching qualification in Zambia, with UNZA’s Department of Psychology.
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