119 Farringdon Road
London
EC1R 3ER

Tel: 020 7278 2332
Fax: 020 7713 4038

Web: societyguardian.co.uk

Media partner

The Guardian has a long-term standing commitment to all public services and the charity sector. This has been delivered through its editorial, offering comprehensive recruitment sections and its support of key events. The Guardian is now delighted to support Drugs and Alcohol Today London.

SocietyGuardian is published every Wednesday with the Guardian, and has news and editorial features on a range of public services, including health, housing, employment and social care. SocietyGuardian also offers a breadth of job opportunities, carrying public services and social care appointments.

Furthermore, the Guardian jobs website, with its unique functionality and its sector specific sections, attracts a large user profile of professionals drawn from a range of public services. The Guardian now also offers a unique social care Jobmatch service, which hand picks and matches the right candidates with the right jobs. The Guardian, with its unique editorial and effective recruitment offering, has become an invaluable resource for all public services and charity sector professionals.

For further details on the Guardian's recruitment solutions, contact your Guardian representative on 0207 611 9111 or at www.guardian.co.uk/jobs

Standon House
21 Mansell Street
London
E1 8AA

Tel: 020 7481 7600

Email: info@turning-point.co.uk
Web: www.turning-point.co.uk

We turn lives around every day by putting the individual at the heart of what we do, and helping people build a better life.

Turning Point is the UK's leading social care organisation, providing services for people with complex needs, including those affected by drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with a learning disability.

Event partner

The Crime and Drug Strategy Directorate in the Home Office exists to co-ordinate efforts across government to reduce crime and the harms caused by drug misuse. A dedicated unit – the Drug Strategy Unit – focuses on reducing drug-related harm, while specific elements of the Strategy are the responsibility of other units within the Directorate. For example, the Crime and Drugs Legislation and Enforcement Unit deals with all matters relating to the legality and classification of drugs and also to reducing international supply.

Responsibility for delivery of the Strategy is shared across several government departments and agencies and CDSD co-ordinate activity to ensure that action taken across government contributes to reducing the harms associated with illegal drugs, including reporting to Ministers and communicating with stakeholders and the public.

Trust the Process
Telford Place
1 Telford Way
Luton
Bedfordshire LU1 1HT

Tel: 0845 241 3401
Fax: 0845 241 3402

Email: Charlotte.Tarrant@trusttheprocess.org
Web: www.trusttheprocess.org

Trust the Process Counselling provides residential rehabilitation for people addicted to alcohol or drugs. We are abstinence-based, offering our clients a full service in terms of addiction treatment, from detox, through to primary care, secondary care and free aftercare. Our services include medically supervised detox, health checks, addiction counselling (group and 1-2-1), complementary therapies, relapse prevention, nutrition, education/careers guidance, and volunteering opportunities.

Our Structured Treatment and Community Support model (STACS) is an innovation in drug and alcohol treatment, offering a unique combination of intensive addiction counselling and life skills workshops at our treatment centres, with supported housing in the community. Our 12-week primary care programme incorporates 28 hours of psychosocial intervention per week, mainly group work with a range of techniques used to bring about a radical change in clients’ thinking and behaviour. Secondary care consolidates treatment gain, looking at all areas of the person’s life, including career, education, housing, and of course their addiction.

Every client who graduates from primary/secondary care is offered resettlement housing in our thriving sober living communities. Free aftercare groups are available. This provides a stable structure for clients to pursue an abstinent life. Our community support team works with clients on living skills such as hygiene, cooking, shopping, budgeting and peer relations.

Tel:  020 8960 5599
Fax: 020 8960 0508

Email: info@theblenheimcdp.org.uk
Web: blenheimcdp.org.uk

The London Drugs Agency Blenheim CDP was created in 2007 from the merger of two leading drug services – The Blenheim Project and The Community Drug Project (CDP) – both with a long history of providing quality services.

Blenheim CDP provides services aimed at reducing the harm caused by drug misuse to individuals and the public. The organisation delivers a range of evidence based initiatives that reflect the multicultural and diverse needs of the communities which they serve. These include:

• Specialist Stimulant Services
• Structured Day Programmes
• Direct Access Services
• GP Shared Care
• Needle Exchange
• Criminal Justice Services
• DRR Day Programmes
• Volunteer and Trainee Programmes
• Training & Consultancy

Blenheim CDP regards its relationship with local communities and service users as key. The organisation works alongside service users, communities, partner providers and local commissioners in striving to improve public health, community safety and social inclusion.

Intervention methods include Cognitive Behavioural therapy, Motivational Interviewing and the International Treatment Effectiveness Programme (ITEP). ITEP provides workers with a range of mapping tools that guides discussions with clients around their thinking and behavioural patterns.

Event supporter

DrugScope is the leading UK charity working to improve the quality and availability of drug information, education ,and services, ensuring people get the support they need. With the largest library of drug information in the English language, thousands of people in the UK and internationally, use its resources.

DrugScope specifically works to ensure that young people get the best possible education about the risks associated with drugs. The charity influences policy-making on a national and international level and has special consultative status with the United Nations.

DrugScope is a membership organisation, ensuring those working in the field of substance misuse have their voices heard. The bimonthly magazine, Druglink, has been informing and challenging substance issues for over 30 years. All members receive the magazine, along with discounts on DrugScope publications, events and services, and free access to the library. Our training and consultation services run pre-devised and bespoke courses, evaluations and service development projects for a range of customers and service providers.

To discuss membership or any of your professional needs, please contact DrugScope.

Zone sponsor

ADAPT is a major provider for the Prison Estate, with 22 prison based projects across Eastern England and the East Midlands.
Each of these consist of a specialist team providing CARAT (Counselling Assessment Referral Advice Throughcare) Services to offenders and two prison rehabilitation programmes, STOP and PASRO, that use a CBT model of treatment. ADAPT also work in the High Security Prison Estate providing CARAT Services.

ADAPT lead in engaging with those "difficult to engage" individuals and our CARAT Teams continually reach out to those at risk and those who are difficult to engage for many reasons, offering on-going support, a choice of treatment options and specialised knowledge.

ADAPT takes pride in offering a "beginning to end" treatment path with well trained and dedicated workers throughout our prison and community projects. We employ nearly 120 staff, all of who are working towards DANOS competency and FDAP Accreditation. Our Managers are currently able to engage in NVQ 5 Management Training, with senior Managers able to complete Institute of Chartered Management Diplomas. All are delivered in house and are in addition to other short training courses based on the need of our workforce.

First floor
8 Shelton Street
London WC2H 9JR

Tel: 020 7395 4000
Fax: 0202 7395 4005

E-mail: contact@alcoholconcern.org.uk

Event supporter

Alcohol Concern is the national agency on alcohol misuse. We work to reduce the incidence and costs of alcohol-related harm and to increase the range and quality of services available to people with alcohol-related problems.

We provide information and encourage debate on the wide range of public policy issues affected by alcohol, including public health, housing, children and families, crime, and licensing. We support specialist and non-specialist service providers helping to tackle alcohol problems at a local level, while also working to influence national alcohol policy.

Our principal aims are:

• to reduce the incidence and costs of alcohol related harm
• to increase the range and the quality of the services available to people with alcohol-related problems.

Alcohol Concern acts as the national umbrella body for 500 local agencies tackling alcohol-related harm and offering help to the families and friends of those with alcohol-related problems. It plays a key role in promoting and advising on the development of national alcohol policy and in promoting public awareness of alcohol issues. It acts as the principal source of information on alcohol to the general public, to the press and to professionals in other fields of activity, including government.

Alcohol Concern is governed by a Board of Trustees elected from its members. It is supported with funding from the UK Department of Health. It also receives income from charitable grants, consultancy and training fees, contracts and sales from its bookshop. Alcohol Concern also receives substantial and important income from membership fees.

16 Kent Street
Birmingham B5 6RD

Tel: 0121 622 3911
Fax: 0121 622 4860

Email: info@basw.co.uk
Web: www.BASW.co.uk

BASW is delighted to be the badge sponsor for Drugs and Alcohol Today London.

BASW is the professional association for social work and social workers in the UK. Whether you are qualified or not, experienced or just entering the profession, we’re here to help, support, advise and campaign on your behalf.

Our success and vitality is built on the active involvement and expertise of members who share a commitment to good social work practice and uphold the Association’s Code of Ethics for Social Work.
BASW is recognised throughout the UK as the voice of social workers, and contributes to social policy development nationally and internationally.

Federation of Drug and Alcohol Professionals
Unit 84
95 Wilton Rd
London SW1V 1BZ

Tel: 0870 763 6139

Email: office@fdap.org.uk
Web: www.fdap.org.uk

The Federation of Drug & Alcohol Professionals (FDAP) is the professional body for the substance use field and works to help improve standards of practice across the sector.

UK Drug Policy Commission
11 Park Place
London SW1A 1LP

Tel: 020 7297 4750

Email: info@ukdpc.org.uk
Web: www.ukdpc.org.uk

The UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC) is an independent body providing objective analysis of UK drug policy. We aim to improve political, media and public understanding of drug policy issues and the options for achieving a rational and effective (evidence-led) response to the problems caused by illegal drugs.