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WHAT’S ON THE PROGRAMME
9.00am-10.00am
: Registration and refreshments
10.00am
: Welcome
10.00am-11.15am
: Opening session.
Members of DISC’s peer-led Recovery Community, BRIC, tell how they’ve
created The Hub, a safe environment in which people can develop their
life skills, practical skills and confidence.
Sophie Strachan talks from first-hand experience about drug use and HIV,
and brings a wealth of advice from her work with Positively UK in prisons.
Members of the San Patrignano community in Italy share their inspiring
story. For the past 30 years the community has welcomed young men and
women with serious problems linked to drug addiction completely free of
charge, and without any discrimination. Now home to about 1,300 people,
the community helps its residents to change their lives for the better
through study, learning a trade and becoming active members of society.
11.15am-11.45am
: Refreshments
11.45am-12.45pm
: Panel discussion with audience participation – ‘How I
made it happen’.
Members of our panel – nominated by
DDN
readers – will share their
experiences of changing an aspect of their lives for the better. Delegates
are invited to have their say and panel experts will answer questions.
12.45pm-1.45pm
: Lunch, band, mingling, exhibition, harm reduction café.
1.45pm-2.45pm
: Presentations in the downstairs Dialogue Space
Our speakers step up to the mic to share short presentations on all kinds
of inspiring topics, including how to run a harm reduction café, peer
mentoring initiatives and naloxone training.
1.45pm-2.45pm
: Simultaneous session upstairs in the Enterprise Zone
Information booths, advice clinics and mini-presentations on all aspects
of getting into employment and creating enterprise. Experts will be on
hand to give technical, practical and legal advice and the
DDN
team will
be among those hoping to inspire with the launch of the
DDN
work
experience hub.
2.45pm-3.30pm
: Final gathering and headline speaker – tba
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Service user involvement conference 2014
If you are having any trouble obtaining funding for a place from your DAAT or local
treatment provider, please get in touch with our team at DDN. We’ll suggest routes
to funding and may be able to provide a bursary place where this is impossible. We
want to make sure nobody is excluded from the event because of inability to pay.
SERVICE USER EXHIBITION
All our service user groups are offered a free stand, as the SU exhibition is at the
heart of the event. This is the place where groups can showcase their activities,
whether it’s leaflets about meetings, newsletters about activities, arts, crafts,
textiles, t-shirts, picture framing… whatever your group’s involved with, we want to
share the news about it. Previous events have seen a cornucopia of inspiring ideas.
A key element to the SU exhibition is its capacity for networking. We’ve had so
much feedback from delegates who have taken ideas home from other groups and
started ventures of their own. If you’d like a free stand for your group, just let us
know by emailing the
DDN
team at info@cjwellings.com or calling 01233 636 188
and we’ll make sure you have everything you need.
If you’re a charity or commercial organisation and would also like to exhibit,
please contact ian@cjwellings.com or call 01233 636 188 as we have exhibition
and sponsorship opportunities for all budgets.
BOOKING YOUR PLACE
You can book your delegate place by going online at
www.drinkanddrugsnews.com or by calling us on 01233 636 188. This year’s event
promises to be the most amazing yet – see you there and let’s make it happen!
All our service user groups
are offered a free stand, as
the SU exhibition is at the
heart of the event.
Happen