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Housing and drugs: a matter of substance
Housing and drugs: a matter of substance
Homeless Link and Shelter, with support from the Housing Corporation and DrugScope, presented this one-day national conference which offered a way through the strategic and practical issues related to housing drug users.
Finding suitable accommodation for homeless people with drug issues is one of the greatest challenges facing those working with this client group. Balancing the needs of service users and the human and economic costs of failed treatment options alongside issues of community lies at the heart of the commissioning and delivery of services.
Successful interventions require integrated pathways that support progression from chaotic drug use to stability. Such pathways are dependent on joing commissioning and effective inter-agency co-operation.
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** Martin Barnes, Chief Executive, DrugScope **
** Lisa Barker, Deputy Director Homelessness and Housing Management, CLG **
** Paul Hayes, Chief Executive of the National Treatment Agency **
** Jane Luby, Director of Consulting, Tribal Consulting ** and ** Alice Evans, Head of Policy Analysis, Homeless Link ** presented the ** Clean Break research **
Workshops
Presentations from the day's workshops are available to be download below:
- Engaging with relevant strategies: solutions and challenges for local delivery - Broadway and Drug Interventions Programme
- Setting the standards
- Clean Break
- Joint working - making it work
- The role of housing in relapse prevention
- Providing inclusive services
- An introduction to dual diagnosis
Delegates had the opportunity to:
- hear Government and National Treatment Agency perspectives on joint working and commissioning
- attend practical and strategic workshops on delivering the spectrum of services needed for homeless drug users to progress towards stability
- take part in a discussion on the best ways to resolve tensions between anti-social behaviour and providing housing and support to drug users
- network and share issues and practical ideas
- meet others who can help them tackle the chellenge of housing those using drugs