Service User Groups

Introduction

At a Service User Day held in March 2007 for the Partnership, facilitated by Jimi Grieve and Anna Millington from the National User Group, a training and development need was identified which led to the creation of a DAAT hosted Service User Engagement Training Sub Group in May 2007 .

The overarching aim of the Service User Engagement Training Sub Group is to guide and support activity that helps to identify training and development needs among service users wishing to be involved in service user groups, advocacy or service development.

Courses identified to date and accessed by members of the group include:-

Through this group and the training identified it is hoped to enable service user development in order to increase effective participation in the design of treatment services and support of other service users.

• The Alcohol Strategy; Commissioning Strategy; Harm Reduction Strategy
• The Adult Treatment plan
• The development of the 'Get a Life' manual written by Service Users for Service Users on how to get involved in your Treatment Service.
• The group were consulted by Viv Maskrey of the UEA on the Adult Training Needs Assessment questionnaire.
• The Education, Training and Employment report – the importance of ETE in recovery and the point at which they felt that they started to think about ETE.

News Items

We know that new groups are now being formed around the County - let us know what you're group is doing for publication on this page. Contact Veronica with information.

A new website has been launched by Release for a worldwide forum to talk about drugs and drug policy. To get involved the web address is www.talkingdrugs.org

Activity Updates from Group Members

From service user to service developer read Tommy's story.

Minutes of Meetings

Meeting 23 Feb 09
Meeting 26 Jan 09
Meeting 24 Nov 08
Meeting 23 Oct 08
Meeting 15 Sep 08