The route to social reintegration: effective drug treatment, a home and a job

The event is designed to bring together practitioners and local strategic partners working in the criminal justice, employment, drugs or housing field. It will be a showcase for smart, successful ideas that have worked and will provide opportunities for delegates to make linkages and potential partnerships.

Hilton Metropole, Birmingham, 21^st October 2008

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The Home Secretary in her foreword to the 2008 drug strategy notes that:

‘Our ambition is clear. We want a society free of the problems caused by drugs. Our aim is that ……that those who do use drugs not only enter treatment, but complete it and re-establish their lives’

This is a welcome statement of intent but how are you going to make this a reality in your local area?

In a challenging financial climate the onus will be on service providers and strategic partners at a local level to make better use of the resources already there to increase the level of social re-integration.

This Home Office sponsored event is designed to help inform and equip delegates to deliver social reintegration for recovering drug misusers.

The programme includes:

Senior officials from all the key government departments working in this field including the head of the Drug Strategy Unit
The latest research evidence from the UK Drug Policy Commission, the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at Kings College London and the editor of Drug and Alcohol findings
Views from senior executives of employment, housing and drug service providers
There will also be a view from Scotland

There is no single blueprint to achieve the effective social reintegration of former drug users. The bulk of the programme consists of a range of interactive workshops from a wide range of providers, from small scale projects to broader strategic approaches. These are designed to inform, stimulate debate and promote discussion about how local partners can mobilise resources and configure services to help deliver social re-integration for their service users.

We hope you will be able to join us for what we feel will be an important contribution to the delivery of an essential element of the drug strategy.

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PRESENTATIONS

Mhairi Doyle, Jobcentre Plus

The Merseyside Model – the Social Inclusion Approach

Debbie Hilton, Off the Streets and Into Work (OSW)

Beyond Worklessness

Eleanor Levy, St Mungo’s

Social Reintegration: People with a drug Misuse history and complex needs

Gill Unstead, Devon DAAT and Nicki Glassbrook, Devon PCT

Real Partnership Working?

Adele Duncan-Harvey and Carrie Ann Mills, Phoenix Futures