Service User Voices Gary Topley Michelle Tomlinson

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Service User VoicesGary TopleyMichelle
Tomlinson
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• My Personal Journey
• Gary Topley

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• First Knowledge
• Boarding School
• Being In Care
• Meeting Real Family After 14 Years
• Moving Into A Hostel
• Self Harm

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• Moving To Derbyshire
• Prison
• Where I Am At Now
• Future Plans

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Clients Views of TreatmentMichelle Tomlinson
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• A snapshot survey of Derbyshire Alcohol Services
• Questionnaire
• Sample size 8
• Different perspectives

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• Summary of Responses
• Accessing treatment
• Reasons for accessing treatment
• Accessibility to treatment
• Keyworking and care plans
• Positive keyworking relationships
• Mixed views of the care plan
• Criminal Justice
• 3 had committed a crime but had not
• been offered an ATR

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• Improvements to Alcohol Services
• A need for support/ treatment in the south of the
  county
• Holistic therapies
• More group work
• More one-to-one support sessions with keyworkers
• More help through hospitals

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• Positive Impact of Treatment
• Realisation that alcoholism is a killer disease
• Too early to say but tablets stop me drinking
• Treatment helped me to be abstinent
• Improved quality of life
• Better health and relationships with family
• undoubtedly assisted me in re-rooting my life
  from ground up

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• Alcohol and Me
• A short film that looks at the perceptions of
  adults and young people around the issues of
  problematic drinking and their experiences of
  treatment services

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• Thank you for listening