South East
HMP Send
Service delivered in prison
How we help
We offer a range of psychosocial and clinical interventions to help clients address their substance misuse.
Programmes
- Footsteps in Recovery – an intensive programme taking a tailored approach to helping individuals become drug and alcohol free
- Stepping Stones – a low-medium intensity intervention for those whose alcohol or drug consumption is at harmful or dependent levels
- Brief Intervention Programme for Alcohol (BIPA) – a programme designed to help individuals manage alcohol use or abstinence effectively
- Living Safely Drug and Alcohol – a series of workshops exploring the risks associated with drug and alcohol use
- Family service – our Family Workers sit within treatment teams, helping residents strengthen relationships with family, friends and wider social networks
Further interventions
- Fellowships – we co-facilitate Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings
- Unwind Your Mind – co-facilitated arts and crafts sessions
- Acupuncture – offered as a complementary therapy for all service users to help with relaxation and detox
- Clinical services – provided by a nurse/doctor and include opiate substitution therapy (OST) and detoxification.
Our partners
Partners
Internal
- Healthcare
- Mental Health In-reach
- Resettlement (KSSCRC / St Mungo’s)
- OMU Probation (CRC / NPS)
- Employment (JobCentre Plus)
- PIPE/Pre PIPE.
- Therapeutic Community
External
- Community DIP teams
- Community probation officers
- Rehabs (Steps2Recovery, Treasures Foundation)
- Supported Housing (Kairos, Amber Project)
- Trussell Trust Food Banks
- Woking Buddhist Society (deliver weekly mindfulness sessions at the prison)
- Fellowships (NA, AA, CA, Al-Anon)
- Social Services
- Hepatitis C Trust
How to refer
Any resident can self-refer to the service. We also accept referrals from third parties. If a staff member or third party refers a resident we will assess the resident if they agree to engage. All residents are seen as part of their induction.
Family service
Programmes
Service Manager
Reach Out
Since completing the programme, I have learnt a lot about myself. My family wants to know me, I’m clean and feeling better. I see where I went wrong and don’t want to go through that again.
Martyn P, Forward client Read Martyn’s story