Service areas

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 Criminal Justice Services
CRI works with adults and young people with substance misuse problems whose behaviour brings them into contact with the criminal justice service. 

 Substance Misuse Services in the Community
CRI provides a range of community based services for people with substance misuse problems. 

Many service users attend voluntarily but others are obliged to do so as part of a court order and as an alternative to prison. These services are geared towards supporting individuals to successfully overcome substance misuse problems and to lead stable, crime-free lives.

CRI provides structured therapeutic programmes that address substance misuse and criminal activity and staff aim to support individuals at every step of the way. Services also also address the educational, employment and housing needs of service users to help them make positive life style changes and sustain their commitment to change.

Services include:

Open Access and Needle Exchange

CRI provides open access advice and information services that use informal contact to introduce people to the idea of treatment and to motivate them to attend structured treatment services. These services promote harm reduction and provide specialist advice, assessment, information and referral to other services. They include the provision of primary health care support including safe needle exchange and health advice both in relation to drug use and general health. These services are provided in partnership with local NHS Trusts and include testing and vaccinations for hepatitis, advice on avoiding blood borne viruses and treatment for injection wounds and infections.

CRI also provides outreach services in local communities that are aimed at women and hard to reach individuals and groups. The services are largely targeted at opiate users but also provide specialist help for those using stimulants such as crack cocaine and also steroids.

Mobile outreach services are used to reach out to people in isolated and rural communities to ensure equality of access.

Structured Day Programmes

CRI provides structured day programmes for people on court orders such as Drug Rehabilitation and Alcohol Treatment Requirement orders, as well as those attending voluntarily. The programmes work closely with statutory prescribing services and target heroin, cocaine, crack and alcohol users with established drug habits and a history of associated offending behaviour.

The programmes are delivered in three distinct phases. At the entry level the focus is on harm minimisation and stabilisation for active users. The second stage of detoxification focuses on relapse management. The aftercare stage, for those leaving the programme, involves supporting people to achieve the aims of their care plan and guiding them towards further help and support in the community.

The strength of all of the structured day care programmes is the integration between those required to attend through drug treatment and testing orders and those attending voluntarily, as well as the partnership working with the probation service and primary health care services. In addition, service users are actively engaged in the design and delivery of the programmes.

These programmes include prescribing services provided in partnership with the NHS.

Support for People from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities

CRI provides support, assessment and treatment services for people from black and minority ethnic communities who have drug, alcohol, social and health needs. Services are provided for people from the Somali, Kosovan, Albanian, Polish, East African and Arab communities. Services include:

Somali Khat Project

CRI provides structured treatment programmes for people from the Somali community who use the drug khat. The service includes training for professionals and advice for the wider community including practical advice to reduce the harm caused by khat use and an opportunity to engage with khat users to discuss the lifestyle factors that influence their drug use.CRI also runs drug and crime prevention programmes in Hounslow in the summer and Easter holidays for young Somalis. This includes a series of workshops and seminars as well as diversionary activities such as football.

Support for Young Refugees

Help for young single homeless refugees to find accommodation in the private sector. We help with filling in forms and applying for benefits and run a rent deposit scheme. Young people must be ready to engage in our treatment programmes for at least six weeks to eligible for this service.

Health Advocacy for Refugee Women

We help refugee women to register with a doctor and to understand and use the health care system. We also refer women to other services that can help and assist in overcoming language barriers that can prevent their gaining access to appropriate services.

 Street Services
CRI delivers street services in a number of towns and cities, working with rough sleepers, people who are begging, street drinkers, drug users, sex-workers and those involved in anti social behaviour.  

 Residential and Supported Accommodation
CRI runs a residential treatment service in Brighton & Hove for people with substance misuse problems.  

 Families and Young People
We work with the parents of children who are at risk of involvement in crime and provide advice and support on parenting issues.