South Gloucestershire Services
DHI has a track record of delivering services in South Gloucestershire to a wide range of service users. We deliver harm reduction and structured treatment services for people using drugs and alcohol problematically, and for those affected by another’s substance use. We also provide advice and information services on a wide range of welfare, social and health related issues through our social prescribing service at a GP surgery and our brokerage service for vulnerable people entitled to funding from social services.
Brokerage, Advice and Information Services
We deliver a social prescribing service through the Orchard Surgery in Kingswood in which we meet with patients to discuss non clinical needs including social, emotional or practical needs and help identify community resources to addresses them.
We also have a base at the Kingswood Foundation in Kingswood. From this office we run a service which assists vulnerable people (i.e. as a result of a learning or physical disability, poor mental health, older age) who have requested the services of an independent broker, to plan and organise the support they require using the budget assigned to them by social services.
Drug and Alcohol Services
DHI South Gloucestershire has treatment centres in Warmley and Yate and delivers services throughout the county, including within GP surgeries. We offer responsive and imaginative services, developed in consultation with the people who use them, aiming to reduce the harm from, and improve the health and well being of all those who are affected by, problematic substance use.
We offer services for people who are using drugs and alcohol and would like information and advice on reducing the harm from their substance use. We offer low threshold access to harm reduction clinics, needle exchange and health screening, complementary therapies such as auricular acupuncture and meditation, which enable people to move into our more structured services such as the day programme or substitute prescribing, when they choose. We also have interventions available for people who specifically use stimulants.
We also work with those who have been affected by someone else's substance use through our families and carers service and support people in treatment to involve their families if they choose to.
