*Achieve Trafford Substance Misuse Service (drugs, alcohol)

About our service

Drug and alcohol treatment and recovery services in Trafford are provided by a range of different organisations with a wealth of background and experience. Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) is the lead provider. They deliver a wide variety of services, opportunities, treatments, and therapies for people seeking help in tackling their own drug or alcohol use, or that of a loved one. The partnership works with adults, children, young people, families, and carers. The partnership operates under the name of ‘Achieve’ Trafford.

For specialist drug and alcohol treatment or advice contact Achieve Trafford on 0161 358 0991.

If you are under 21 or are concerned about a child’s drug or alcohol use, please contact Achieve Young People’s service – Early Break on 0161 723 3880.

 

 

Achieve Trafford consists of the following organisations

Below you can find out more about the organisations that form the partnership. To access any of these service you must first contact Achieve Trafford or the Achieve Young People’s service.

GMMH work closely with the following partner organisations which are included in the Achieve partnership:

 

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH)

GMMH is the lead provider for the Achieve Partnership.

The services are accessed through self-referral or referral from a third party, download the Achieve BBST referral form. For most adult referrals, this is through a single point of contact for example a GP or other health professional. It is important from the first contact that the service user agrees to the referral.

After a referral is received, the team will contact the service user to discuss the partnership offer, including an assessment when appropriate.

They will attempt to make appointments at a time and venue that is convenient to the service user. They can also now provide assessments virtually when appropriate to do so.

They undertake needs led assessments of people who feel they have a substance misuse problem, assessing the physical and psychological needs of the service user.

During the assessment process, they will establish what the needs and goals are, and start drawing up a recovery plan with the service user.

Once an assessment has been carried out the services that are offered by GMMH are:

  • Clinical help to support the physical aspects of addiction such as opiate substitute medication
  • Access to inpatient and community detoxification
  • Health promotion and health screening, eg smoking cessation, dental care, physical health assessment
  • Drop in and structured sessions
  • Brief interventions
  • Family interventions
  • Psychosocial interventions
  • Therapeutic activities
  • Harm reduction, needle exchange provision and safe injecting advice
  • Group work and service user groups
  • Access to vaccinations
  • Testing for blood-borne viruses
  • Overdose training and naloxone prescribing
  • Access to a Consultant Psychiatrist for mental health and medical reviews
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
  • Development and mentoring support for service users and carers
  • Holistic recovery service, involving families and carers
  • Advice and support with education, training and employment opportunities
  • Support with development of physical and virtual recovery networks and links to mutual aid organisations

 

Early Break Young People & Family Service

Early Break is a respected registered charity, established in 1994, and operating in five boroughs across Greater Manchester. They provide advice, information, psychosocial interventions and case management where appropriate to young people under 21 years old.

The young peoples team provide targeted interventions, prevention and educational work into other teams within partnership working with children and young people, including schools and youth services.

Early Break offer Holding Families, a whole family approach to address parental substance use and imprisonment. Holding Families is inclusive of a range of individual support sessions, group work and family sessions by providing structured interventions to children, parents and families with problems associated with parental substance misuse.

Early Break along with the Assertive Outreach team offers joint outreach which is inclusive of joint transition pathways in place for older young people. 

 

The Big Life Group Assertive Outreach Team

The Big Life Group Assertive Outreach Team contributes to the delivery of a creative and flexible service for people who are experiencing problems with substance misuse. They support those who are experiencing barriers to accessing treatment along with those who may be at risk or who have disengaged from structured treatment.

The Assertive Outreach Team links into all parts of the partnership, receiving referrals for re-engagement purposes, referring into Great Places for those with housing need and receiving referrals from local hospitals. They promote the Holding Families programme and co-work with service users where needed, whilst also referring service users into Intuitive Recovery and Breaking Free online. They also support access to the asset fund when needed. 

 

Great Places Housing

Great Places Housing provide housing advice and support to anyone working with the partnership with a housing need. Support can cover benefit advice, housing registration, floating support for complex cases, alongside outreach with rough sleepers, and working to prevent and relieve homelessness. 

 

Intuitive Thinking Skills

Intuitive Thinking Skills is an accredited educational programme that promotes abstinence. It is delivered by course coordinators who have been through addiction services themselves, and so have lived experience. The course provides skills and tools to recognise and control addictive desire and take responsibility for choices and behaviours to achieve better health for individuals, families and communities.

The course is delivered over a minimum of 6x 2.5 hour teaching sessions. The final part of the course is the development of a personalised and meaningful plan of abstinence. The course is delivered to anyone, regardless of whether or not they are open to other services within the Achieve partnership. 

 

Those On The Margins of Society (THOMAS) Residential Rehab

THOMAS work with an integrated strategy of residential group recovery, in located recovery housing in Greater Manchester. There is a strong therapeutic social learning environment, which develops contingencies of behavioural support, promoting 12 step recovery.

Their stage one project has 24-hour support, within a 26-week programme. Their stage two project takes and supports people to move through to a more independent living stage before moving on and away from the project.

Referrals are jointly assessed. Towards the end of the first stage programme, further links are made to support individuals with recovery in the community.

 

Breaking Free Online

Breaking Free Online is a digital behaviour change program which is evidence based. The course is available for every service user. It compliments and enhances existing approaches, by supporting service users achieve their personal goals. Service users can use Breaking Free as a self-directed tool or they can be supported by staff where computer-assisted therapy is delivered.

 

The Achieve Asset Fund

The Achieve Asset fund offers awards of up to £15,000 for voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations undertaking therapeutic activities to support recovery from alcohol and drugs.

The Achieve Asset Fund also offers personal support recovery fund award applications of up to £500 (non-cash awards) to individuals open to Achieve for specific items that will aid them in recovery their recovery goals. Awards have included refurbished laptops and employment support. All applications must be support by a Recovery Co-ordinator and the fund is managed and co-ordinated by Salford CVS. 

 

Other places to get help

If you feel you need support, advice or help with your alcohol or drug problem then please get in GMMH. If you’re a young person, family member or carer who needs support, please contact the GMMH and they can discuss what help is available. In addition, there are are also a range of free, confidential, and local support services that can help you with your own drug or alcohol use, or if you are concerned about somebody else’s drug or alcohol use.

Who to contact

Telephone
0161 358 0991 0161 358 0991
E-mail
Website
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust website
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Where to go

Name
Achieve Trafford
Address
454, Chester Road
Manchester
Postcode
M16 9HD
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Time / Date Details

When is it on
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm - open to 7pm on Thursdays

Who is it for?

Ages
  • All ages
Supporting People With
  • Mental health
  • Substance misuse

Accessibility

Details

Achieve are able to offer both face-to-face and virtual appointments. Please contact the service directly if you have any accessibility requirements so the necessary arrangements can be put in place. 

Costs

Details
Free

Availability

Referral Details

Trafford team accepts the Achieve Trafford Referral Form from any source, including self-referrals.

 

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