When you arrive, you will be allocated a keyworker who devises your care plan and initially takes primary responsibility for its delivery. As recovery progresses, you will begin to take responsibility for your care plan yourself. Your keyworker will help you settle and provide you with one-to-one counselling and teaching throughout your stay. The purpose of the counselling is to support and help you in day to day life without drugs or alcohol though other issues may be explored as agreed between you and your keyworker. There will also be ‘homework’ to be completed between sessions. The teaching material covers addiction, boundaries, relationships, work on the Twelve Steps and an opportunity to explore some basic assumptions and values. If you have literacy problems, some worksheets are available on CD and homework and journals can be recorded.

Care is structured around three phases throughout each of which we offer integrated health and social care to minimise further harm which includes:

• meeting primary health needs
• restoring healthy sleep, eating and exercise
• considering food and nutrition
• establishing impulse control
• addressing psychological disturbance
• managing anxiety and emotional distress
• facilitating confidence in domestic competence
• encouraging self-assertion
• supporting parenting and other significant relationships
• being appreciated and learn to appreciate others
• exploring co-dependency, responsibility and establishing appropriate boundaries
• finding alcohol and drug free support networks