Partners

We work with a wide range of partners on a local and national level in order to be able to provide the highest quality support to our service users.

Social care and health partners

Breaking Free Online

Breaking Free Online is an evidence-based online treatment and recovery programme for alcohol and drug dependence. It harnesses the latest digital technology to make effective interventions more powerful, engaging and accessible than ever before.

CRI’s innovative partnership with Breaking Free Online means CRI is able to offer all its service users 24/7 access to confidential treatment and recovery support via the internet every day of the year. And since the programme directly targets 36 substances – including novel psychoactive substances (legal highs), substitute medications and prescribed medications of abuse – it strengthens CRI’s ability to engage and treat the growing number of people who are misusing these types of drugs.

Collective Voice

Collective Voice is a group made up of CRI and other third sector providers including Addaction, Blenheim, Cranstoun, Lifeline Project, Phoenix Futures, Swanswell and Turning Point and exists to ensure the voice of the drug and alcohol sector and those who use its services are adequately heard.The project has two main goals:

• To identify the most effective structures and mechanisms to enable the entire drug and alcohol treatment sector to represent the interests of its service users to relevant stakeholders;

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• To establish how the drug and alcohol treatment sector can help the government achieve its ambition.

The project is overseen by a Board made up of the funding organisations and is led by Paul Hayes.

Criminal justice partners

Reducing Reoffending Partnership

The groundbreaking Reducing Reoffending Partnership (RRP) brings together three experts in offender rehabilitation – CRI, Ingeus and St Giles Trust – to deliver a step-change in the provision of offender rehabilitation services and realise the government’s goal of reducing reoffending in the UK. Ingeus and St Giles share CRI’s value base, which places service users at the heart of what we do; helping people to achieve lasting change. CRI’s long-standing expertise in rehabilitation is combined with:

• St Giles Trust’s expertise in developing programmes which put reformed ex-offenders at the heart of the solution; training participants to use their skills and first-hand experience to help others through peer-led support
• Ingeus’s experience of helping people realise their potential through work and training with employment recognised as a key factor in preventing reoffending

The Reducing Reoffending Partnership has been selected as the government’s preferred bidder to deliver rehabilitation services across the Midlands.

Shaw Trust

CRI’s newest partnership with the Shaw Trust brings together the two organisations’ distinct and complementary resources to help some of the most disadvantaged, challenging and disengaged individuals access mainstream services and employment; reducing the risks of reoffending and helping to make communities safer. The Shaw Trust is the UK's largest third sector provider of employment services for disabled and disadvantaged people.

CRI and the Shaw Trust have been confirmed as preferred bidders in the National Offender Management Service’s East of England and London tender to work with offenders.