Archive
Alcohol Arrest Referral Pilot for Cumbria
CRI, in partnership with Cumbria Constabulary, will be operating an alcohol arrest referral scheme in four Basic Command Units across Cumbria from Mid November…
Posted: Monday 13th October, 2008 | Read More
Award for Peer Mentor Scheme
CRI’s peer mentor scheme has been named a regional winner in the 2008 Nationwide Heritage Awards for Voluntary Endeavour…
Posted: Monday 13th October, 2008 | Read More
National Campaign Launched for Associate Members
CRI has launched a campaign to recruit Associate Members across England and Wales who can help guide the organisation through its future growth and development…
Posted: Monday 6th October, 2008 | Read More
CARAT Contract Wins
CRI has been awarded three new contracts to provide CARATs substance misuse services for HM Prison Service in England…
Posted: Thursday 28th August, 2008 | Read More
Barnsley DIP Worker Nominated for National Award
Julie Sutton, CRI senior DIP worker in Barnsley, has been nominated for a national award for her exceptional support for service users…
Posted: Tuesday 12th August, 2008 | Read More
Kent DIP and Prisons Contract Win
CRI will be delivering improved drug treatment services for offenders in Kent through the award of a contract to deliver a DIP service across Kent and Medway and an Integrated Drug Treatment Service (IDTS) in HMPs Elmley, Standford Hill and Swaleside (known as the Sheppey cluster)…
Posted: Tuesday 12th August, 2008 | Read More
600 Helped in First Year of Camden Drug Project
The 184 project in Camden has helped more than 600 people since it first opened its doors in July 2007…
Posted: Friday 8th August, 2008 | Read More
East Sussex NEET Connexions Contract
CRI has been awarded a five-year contract by East Sussex County Council to provide a comprehensive Information, Advice and Guidance service for vulnerable young people aged 16-25…
Posted: Wednesday 30th July, 2008 | Read More
Domestic Violence Advocacy in Bournemouth and Poole
CRI is developing a new, independent, domestic violence advocacy service in Bournemouth and Poole, designed to protect victims and reduce repeat victimisation…
Posted: Monday 21st July, 2008 | Read More
Drug Crime Down in Brighton & Hove
Independent research shows that joint working in Brighton & Hove to tackle drug supply and demand has significantly reduced offending linked to drug use…
Posted: Monday 21st July, 2008 | Read More
Alcohol Interventions in Bournemouth and Poole
CRI is providing a brief interventions service for people in Bournemouth and Poole whose drinking is harmful and hazardous…
Posted: Monday 21st July, 2008 | Read More
CRI doubles presence in Wales
CRI has doubled the size of its staff team in Wales through the award of a contract to provide Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) services in South Wales…
Posted: Thursday 17th July, 2008 | Read More
Improving street safety in Camden
A scheme enabling local residents and the business community in Camden to report their concerns about street activity is helping to tackle anti social behaviour and reduce people’s fear of crime…
Posted: Wednesday 9th July, 2008 | Read More
New Home for Warrington Substance Misuse Service
A new home for the Warrington Substance Misuse Service was opened by Helen Sumner, Strategic Director of Community Services, Warrington Borough Council, on 19 May 2008…
Posted: Tuesday 8th July, 2008 | Read More
Minister Commends Partnership Working in Brighton
Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker commended partnership working in Brighton & Hove on a recent visit to local substance misuse services in the city…
Posted: Tuesday 8th July, 2008 | Read More
Expansion of Co-ordinated Care in the North
CRI is at the forefront of a push towards more co-ordinated care for service users through the provision of three, new, wrap-around services in Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland…
Posted: Wednesday 2nd July, 2008 | Read More
Staffs Young People’s Drug Project
CRI is to provide a county-wide young people’s drug treatment service in Staffordshire…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Camden 184 Launch
CRI opened a new drug treatment centre in Camden Town in September, in an area known for its open drugs market…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Hounslow Drug Services Provide International Model
Members of Parliament from around the world visited CRI drug services in the London Borough of Hounslow on Tuesday 5 February as part of a fact-finding mission organised by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Supported House Opens in Stoke-on-Trent
The Eastgate supported housing project for people with substance misuse needs opened in Stoke-on-Trent in September…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
New therapeutic service for child victims of domestic abuse
The national charity, CRI, is launching a new therapeutic service for children and young people who have been affected by domestic abuse or violence…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
New Hastings Service Base
Gill Strachan, Assistant Director of the Respect Task Force opened CRI’s new service base in Hastings, East Sussex, for Children, Young People and Families on 12th October 2007…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Turning People Away From Crime
It was fitting that the Government’s new serious crime bill was going through its second reading in the House of Lords on 7 February as staff, trustees and guests of CRI attended a reception at the Lords hosted by CRI President, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
New premises launched after a successful first year in Brent
BRENT MP Dawn Butler officially opened CRI's latest base offering a range of structured drug treatment programmes for almost 500 people in the community…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
South East housing professionals donate £20,000
CRI is set to benefit from a cash boost of around £20,000 over the next year from the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) South East - the professional body for people working in housing and communities across the South East of England…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Supporting Families Affected by Substance Misuse
Staff and service users from CRI’s PATCHED family support project spoke at a conference in Brighton on 31 March for family members affected by substance misuse and for professionals working with young people and those with substance misuse needs…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Innovative Anti-Binge Drinking Message
An innovative idea in Brighton & Hove is helping to communicate anti-binge drinking messages to young people…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Bromley community art project launch
Service users at the Bromley structured day programme have created a vibrant ceramic wall hanging as part of an art therapy project with the local community…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
CRI says "Thank You" to volunteers
At the start of National Volunteers’ Week (June 1-7) CRI is able to announce that its 302 volunteers and mentors have contributed a massive 81,000 hours in support to its projects in the last year…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Silent Voices - supporting families
CRI's PATCHED project will feature at a conference in Brighton on 31st March for family members affected by drug and/or alcohol misuse, as well as professionals working with young people or in the substance misuse field…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
New Alcohol Service for Problem Drinkers
A new community-based alcohol service started in Brighton & Hove in August…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
‘No Home’ - Volunteers Wanted to Help the Homeless
BBC ‘No Home’ Season Highlights Volunteering With the Homeless
The BBC ‘No Home’ season (in the week of 25 November) explores the plight of homeless people 40 years on from the first showing of ‘Cathy Come Home’ on the BBC, and the founding of Shelter…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Top marks from commissioners
Positive results were obtained from CRI’s first ever, formal commissioner survey…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Innovation Secures £3 Million of New Contracts
Innovative practice and a proven track record have helped CRI secure more than £3million of new business in recent weeks…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Volunteers’ Week 1-7 June 2007
A Personal Message from the Chief Executive:
"The personal motivation for my work with CRI owes much to the spirit of the volunteers…
Celebrating the Spirit of the Volunteer
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Volunteers’ Week 1-7 June 2007
A Personal Message from the Chief Executive:
"The personal motivation for my work with CRI owes much to the spirit of the volunteers…
Celebrating the Spirit of the Volunteer
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Lottery Win for East Sussex Young People’s Services
The Young People and Families team in East Sussex are celebrating the award of nearly £370,000 from the Big Lottery to fund an information, advice and guidance service for young people aged 13-25…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
£200k for Children Affected by Domestic Abuse
CRI’s Domestic Abuse Project in East Sussex has been awarded nearly £200,000 by the Big Lottery Fund and East Sussex Children’s Trust to provide play and art therapies and counselling for young children affected by domestic abuse…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
£93k for Hastings Family Project
CRI and the Safer Hastings Partnership have received £93,000 from the Home Office Respect Taskforce to deal with the most difficult and anti-social families…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Help for the Homeless in Blackpool
CRI has been commissioned by Blackpool Supporting People Partnership to deliver a new eight bed Night Shelter providing emergency, direct access accommodation for six male and two female rough sleepers and the single homeless aged 25 years and over…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Haringey DIP Contract Win
CRI has been awarded a contract by Haringey DAAT to deliver a new integrated DIP project…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Achievers award for Hastings
The Hastings Domestic Abuse Service was commended in the Annual Hastings Achievers Awards for its contribution to community safety…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
York young people's substance misuse goes live
CRI have been identified by commissioners as the lead agency to provide substance use services to young people in the City of York with the appointment of a substance use post which complements the existing youth offending drugs provision contract held by CRI…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Project supports national plan
A LEEDS initiative will support the launch of the Government’s new Youth Taskforce Action Plan today (Tuesday)…
Posted: Friday 13th June, 2008 | Read More
Stockton Service Best in Country
The Healthcare Commission and the National Treatment Agency have rated CRI’s substance misuse treatment service in Stockton as the best in the country…
Posted: Tuesday 10th June, 2008 | Read More
Nightshelter Launched in Blackpool
CRI’s Oasis Nightshelter for rough sleepers was launched in September as part of a major new initiative from Blackpool Council to tackle homelessness…
Posted: Friday 16th November, 2007 | Read More
New Alcohol Service for Hampshire
A new Alcohol Treatment Requirement Service (ATR) for Hampshire was formally launched at Winchester Guildhall in July…
Posted: Tuesday 4th September, 2007 | Read More
CRI Celebrates DIP Success at National Conference
CRI welcomed two speakers from the Home Office at their first national DIP conference in July…
Posted: Tuesday 4th September, 2007 | Read More
National Housing Platform for CRI
David Biddle, Deputy Chief Executive, spoke at the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) national conference in Harrogate in June…
Posted: Thursday 9th August, 2007 | Read More
MP Opens New Eastbourne Drug Base
Lift House in Eastbourne is home to a range of substance misuse services including advice and information, structured treatment, services for offenders with drug problems, and counselling…
Posted: Friday 6th July, 2007 | Read More
Baroness Praises Brighton Drug Projects
Government Minister Baroness Scotland praised the partnership working between agencies in Brighton & Hove for combating drug use when she visited the city on Tackling Drugs Day (23 May 2007)…
Posted: Monday 4th June, 2007 | Read More
A “shining star” in Hounslow
Paul Hayes, chief executive of the National Treatment Agency and lead advisor to government on drugs policy, praised the Hounslow integrated drugs service as “one of our shining stars”…
Posted: Wednesday 30th May, 2007 | Read More
Mentors share experiences
Mentors from the first peer mentoring group in Brighton & Hove and Eastbourne delivered a workshop at the annual Brighton & Hove DAAT Conference at Sussex University on 21 September…
Posted: Wednesday 30th May, 2007 | Read More
Domestic abuse service for vulnerable adults
The Domestic Abuse Service has received a Community Partnership Finance Grant to provide a service for vulnerable adults in Hastings and Rother…
Posted: Wednesday 30th May, 2007 | Read More
Brighton and Hove drug team praised
The Brighton and Hove Substance Misuse Service has been rated amongst the best in the country in a recent Healthcare Commission report…
Posted: Wednesday 30th May, 2007 | Read More
CRI named SE Housing Charity of the Year
The South East branch of the Chartered Institute of Housing has named CRI as their charity for 2007-08…
Posted: Wednesday 30th May, 2007 | Read More
Satisfaction High for CRI Volunteers
People volunteering with CRI projects have indicated high levels of satisfaction with their experiences and the training and support they receive in a recent survey…
Posted: Wednesday 30th May, 2007 | Read More
Satisfaction High for CRI Volunteers
People volunteering with CRI projects have indicated high levels of satisfaction with their experiences and the training and support they receive in a recent survey…
Posted: Wednesday 30th May, 2007 | Read More
Support for Home Office Kerb Crawling Initiative
CRI projects in Leeds and Bournemouth have been working in partnership with their local police to support the launch of a new Home Office initiative to combat kerb crawling…
Posted: Wednesday 30th May, 2007 | Read More
New Board Members
The expertise of the CRI board has been further strengthened through two recent appointments…
Posted: Friday 18th May, 2007 | Read More
Brighton shop theft pilot cuts crime and drug use
An article in The Guardian newspaper (Society, 1 November 2006), described how an innovative Brighton project has dramatically reduced shop theft linked to drug use…
Posted: Tuesday 5th December, 2006 | Read More
Rehabilitation focus at annual meeting
Rehabilitation is an essential part of reducing re-offending, Phil Wheatley, Head of the Prison Service, told delegates at the CRI Annual Meeting in London on 31st October…
Posted: Tuesday 5th December, 2006 | Read More
