Service user, family & carer views on prison drug treatment
We have now started our service user, family and carer consultation process which will run until September 10 2009. The letter from Lord Patel and the attached scripts and questionnaire provide more information.
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carers
Hi Tony
when we ran the survey abd consultation we did involve carers and also spoke with ADFAM a national carers service.
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carers do research package
why are you not going out to the carers indepentantly and asking them to get the information you need at the visiting centres ?
always asking services to gather the information ?
the services cant get relational depth with carers one carers to another is needed !
contact this independant group .
Inexcess were privileged to be invited to a meeting of the Manchester Carers’ Group. The group was formed by Carol Connell who is a living example of how community activism can help contribute towards the support of families and carers who are living with addiction.
George joined the group and talked to the ‘real’ experts of addiction, treatment and recovery. They know what it is like to live with addiction and have strong views on how we might continue to tackle the problems.
The group is a mixture of carers and people who are in recovery.
You can contact them on 0161 947 0952 or contact Carol Connell
by email on connell-c@hotmail.co.uk
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Tony2Tone
nice to see you on the forum and your posts are very useful and very imformative, i agree there should be more input from the board and i will also raise this at the next meeting.
There is some very knowlegble people on the group who can make this forum be more fun, with there added views.
Thanks for the feedback on the work you did with the carers group and the additional links. This is very good for networking with partners invovled.
Mani
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manchester carers focus group
manchester carers focus group are going to take the starfish approach so they can have a imput into the way
the services are run here is a link on there statergy
Author Rod Beckstrom, discusses his book "The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations", as part of the Authors@Google series. An entrepreneur who founded his first company at age 24, Beckstrom has also helped to start a number of non-profit groups and initiatives, including Global Peace Networks and SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture). Beckstrom holds an M.B.A. from Stanford and was a Fulbright Scholar in Switzerland. This event took place June 19, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fumQ0s7DCEY
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
: Rebuilding Lives on the South Coast - Recovery Through Regener
Inexcess was privileged to be invited to the Hope Farm Open Day in Littlehampton, West Sussex. This is a project that brings together fighting homelessness and its associated problems with regeneration of a derelict building and land.
Littlehampton is a friendly, picturesque town, one of those hidden secrets of the UK. If you’re not looking for the signs of homelessness or vulnerable people you would be forgiven for thinking homelessness and connected problems must be in the bigger cities on the south coast.
The Hope Farm Project brings together two major forces for good – HOMElink and Skills in Partnership. At the heart of the project is the need to provide support and training to homeless people including help to find recovery from alcohol and substance misuse.
Users of the project will help to renovate a derelict nursery and its surrounding land and then staff the new project including; a restaurant, farm, craft and plant shop, training and education centre, specialist herb growing centre and local artists gallery. Along the way the service users will gain in confidence, take part in training and be offered the opportunity to gain qualifications that should lead onto employment and a fresh start.
We were able to speak to Tony Moran of HOMElink and Ray Collom and Paul Woodcock of Skills in Partnership. They tell us where the idea for the project came from and how it is being pulled together and built. We were also able to speak to Paul and Dawn who have been involved in the the project and who have benefited from the development.
This project is making great progress on the south coast and we hope to revisit it in the near future to see how things are progressing and hopefully to catch up with Dawn and Paul.
It would be great to think that this sort of regeneration and recovery for individuals and communities could be seen in other areas of the country. If you have similar projects and stories please get in touch.
You can contact HOMElink on:01903 739 669 and contact Skills in Partnership on the attached link below.
http://www.inexcess.tv/?p=6849
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.