Substance Misuse Service User Involvement Project

Core Services Offered:
Drug and Alcohol service user involvement at all levels on a borough-wide basis.

Who can refer:
Drugs Agencies
Alcohol Agencies
Clinics/GPs/ Statutory & Voluntary Service Providers
Self Referral
Peer/Carer Referral

The substance misuse service user involvement project was established in 2005, commissioned by Wandsworth DAAT (Drug and Alcohol Action Team) which is made up of local authority and PCT representatives.

Jayne Ayris, the SUI Co-ordinator manages the substance misuse service user project which is multi faceted. It:

Facilitates and enables users of drug and alcohol services to be involved
Is the first point of contact for all clients and services - for information, advice and support on client and user involvement
Signposts to other relevant services
Initiates, develops, implements and administers a range of new approaches/ systems/ services that lead to meaningful service user involvement
Acts in an advisory capacity to enable individual service providers to implement service user involvement in a consistent way across the borough.
Established, facilitates, supports and maintains borough-wide substance misuse groups.
Facilitates and ensures meaningful user involvement across the borough with user representation at all key groups
Ensures that users are involved in revising policy and delivery of treatment and aftercare services across Wandsworth.

The project organises and provides training opportunities for service users, It also refers individuals to other relevant courses.

Further user participation within the project includes conference attendance, borough-wide user group, reps sitting on strategic committees, borough-wide representatives, surveys/questionnaires/focus groups/needs assessments, consultations, reviews, audits, tender panels, workshops and interview panels.

Wandsworth Service User Forum

For more information, please contact Jayne Ayris.

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