Brighton Oasis
Project
Information About Our Services
A comprehensive, gender specific
approach to substance misuse in
Brighton and Hove.
Who uses our Service?
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Children and young people.
Women in the Criminal Justice System.
Women who are sex working.
Mothers.
Young women.
Any woman who needs help with drug/alcohol problems
Non-using parents and carers
Around 400 women and 120 children a year
Meeting the Needs
• Recovery and reintegration focused.
• Distinct phases of progress and clearly defined
goals.
• Responsive to individual needs.
• Holistic.
• Gender specific.
• Childcare running alongside treatment
• Employment, Education and training pathway
Response to DV/SV
• All asked re safety- specialist support for sex
workers
• High Risk assessments – presence at MARAC
• Relationship Support Group Work Programme
• Ongoing Support
• CASH Interventions
• Partnership Working Referrals Onwards to Rise
and Survivors Network
• Therapeutic support for children ( 50% witnessed
DV )
Primary Drug used
Substance
Heroin illicit
Alcohol unspecified
Cocaine Freebase (crack)
Cannabis unspecified
Ketamine
Mephedrone
Cocaine unspecified
Methadone prescription
Acetone
Amphetamine Sulphate
Benzodiazepines Unspecified
Buprenorphine
Methadone Mixture
Opium
Other Psychoactive Drugs
Unsp
Other Stimulants
Total
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38
26
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41%
28%
7%
4%
3%
3%
2%
2%
1%
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1%
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1%
Experience of DV and SV
• Very High amongst all groups accessing BOP- Current and
Historic- All Types CSE, Trafficked Women
• An analysis of ten separate domestic violence prevalence
studies by the Council of Europe (2002) showed consistent
findings: one in four women experience domestic violence
during their lifetime and between 6 - 10% of women
experience domestic violence in any given year4
• These figures are reflected by British Crime Survey data which
has also found that, on average, two women a week are
murdered by a partner
• To date this year 112 UK women killed through male violence
What matters for women
• From NEF’s 2013 evaluation of Refuge Services http://refuge.org.uk/files/Refuge-SROI-report-25-09-13-NCV2.pdf
• Theory of Change -describes the process through which change
occurs, with those involved in benefitting from a service being actively
involved in “telling the story” of how the service affected them
• Safety, Health , Social Well being , Economic Wellbeing
• “The basic essence of it is that you are worth treating. By the time I got to
that point it was like I can’t live with drink, I can’t live without drink, I’ve
completely screwed up my whole life, my children’s life, I’m a horrible
mother, nobody loves me, every one I go out with wants to beat the shit
out of me, so where does that leave me? I’m nothing. And that’s how I
felt.” Survivor’s voice
What about Perpetrators
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Research for impact of interventions debated
We Know most of them – multiple victims
Is Criteria violence cessation ?
One of most common requests from victims to work
with perps
• Respect staff recently calculated that there is demand
for over 40,000 DVPP places for non convicted
domestic violence abusers in England alone, from
referrals from children’s services, police, Relate, and
the Respect Phoneline
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Serious case review
• Near Miss
• Known to services ( multiple for 4 years )
• Little ongoing oversight or ownership –
episodic time limited interventions
• Found services operated in a process centric
way – What are we doing to enable a client
centric approach
Today is not about barriers, its about
bridges…Today is not about feeling entrenched
in our disciplines and resistant to change; it is
about daring to hear the other view, however
uncomfortable this might be. It is about
focusing on the women and children who we
work with and for asking if there is something
we are missing or something we could do
better. Dr Sarah Galvani at the Stella Project
Launch Seminar 2003