West Kent Recovery Service - Gravesend

Who we are

The West Kent Recovery Service offers a pathway to recovery for adults who misuse drugs or alcohol. We provide a range of intensive community-based support, treatment and rehabiliation services that are designed to meet your needs and support your family and friends.

The service is free and confidential. It is available to anyone 18 or over who lives in West Kent.

The West Kent Recovery Service has hubs at Maidstone, Gravesend and Tonbridge and runs satellite service across all parts of West Kent. Please contact your local service for more details.

What we do

Whole Person Recovery
Each individual will have access to a range of services that includes:

• Recovery Alliance: community-based groups generating more accessible pathways for social and economic inclusion.
• Buddy & Volunteer Scheme: offering informal social support and skills development for your recovery journey, as well as for your family and friends.
• Small Sparks Scheme: grant giving scheme aimed at sparking the next step in your recovery.
• Public Events Programme: reducing stigma by raising awareness in the wider community about the realities of recovery through public lectures and events.
• Every Day Activities Programme: every day, interest-based and fun activities in the community to support your long-term recovery.
• Recovery Banks: a time bank designed to generate, foster, broker and strengthen recovery capital for individuals and communities.

As  part of our new integrated recovery-focused service you will be comprehensively assessed by a highly specialist team know as the LASARs (Local Area Single Assessment and Referral) Team. During this assessment it is imperative that you discuss all of the difficulties you may be facing so we are able to identify the services that will best meet your needs. Our workers come from a multi-disciplinary background and we employ nurses, recovery workers, doctors and counsellors. We also run a volunteer and a peer mentor programme. 

We offer a variety of treatment services including: 

For clients:

• brief assessment
• LASAR assessment (Local Area Single Assessment & Referral)
• home visits
• open access
• outreach services
• opiate substitute prescribing
• community alcohol detoxification
• key-working
• counselling
• group work
• peer support
• computer access
• family and friends support
• criminal justice interventions including Drug Interventions Program (DIP)
• referral to inpatient detoxification
• referral to residential rehab
• needle exchange
• hepatitis testing and immunisation

For professionals:

• consultation
• assessment
• advice on medical and psychosocial interventions
• education and training
• support and liaison
• joint working
• discussion
• professional placements

Next steps

Referrals are accepted from GPs and partner agencies as well as treatment providers and other professionals

We also accept self-referral by phone or by going to the services for an assessment. All service centres offer open access - details in the right hand column.

In addition we offer open access clinics from satellite locations, please call your local service for information about these.

Further information

For more information, visit our website at http://www.westkentrecovery.org.uk/