ABOUT SADAS

Our services

Dedicated to providing quality services based on customer need.

The Engage Project

Engage is what you might call a traditional outreach team. We work with anyone who is using drugs or alcohol at any level - that's nice and simple isn't it?

We don't judge you, preach at you, tell you what you 'need to do', talk to the police (or anyone else) about you and we don't expect you to give up in one go, or even at all.

Basically we believe that there are many reasons why people use drugs or alcohol and because of these reasons people need time to get their use to the level they want. We are here to help you to succeed in this aim.

Now that's not always easy of course and with so many of us having histories of our own we appreciate how hard it can be to get it under control again. But we also know that its possible - and that keeps us going to be honest.

So we come to you and listen first of all. The we take it from there and work with you for as long as needed. We don't prescribe ourselves but we work very closely with people who do and will speak to them on your behalf, and even take you to your appointment if necessary. And we believe in the usefulness of being scripted - many of us have worked in prescribing services in the past.

We also work with people who use alcohol or in fact any substance. We offer access into counselling and we also run groups such as anger management and relapse prevention, as well as deliver needle exchange equipment, advice and access to medical care if necessary.

Contact details

The Engage Project
14 Jenner Road
Guildford
Surrey
GU1 3PL

Tel: 01483 590150
Fax: 01483 590160

Reach Out

Sometimes it seems impossible to find a way out of the morass of problems in your life. Sometimes also this is affected by some event in the past which you just can’t get over. The death of a loved one or another traumatic event. As a result you can naturally find drugs or alcohol alleviating some of that stress and heartache and sometimes this can get to be too much and damaging in its own right. Reach out offers you the chance to speak to a trained counsellor in a location close to you about the events which are causing you to use too much.

Funded by the big lottery we will establish 11 venues across Surrey helping individuals in 1:1 work but also establishing groups for people to self help.

Contact details

Tel: 01483 590150
Fax: 01483 590160

OMNI

OMNI outreach is a team of people who have really been there and bought the T shirt.

They work with people who get bounced from one service to another without getting a service at either. So if you try to get help from your Community Mental Health teams and they send you to your drug team because they say you're using too many drugs and that's what's causing the problems, and then you go to your local Drug service and they tell you its all in your head - that's where we come in.

As far as we are concerned it doesn't matter whether it's caused by drugs and alcohol or by mental health (or a bit of both) you still deserve a service. All that the bouncing about does is to make you more and more frustrated and less willing to accept any help at all.

OMNI is a team of people who will come to your house, car, park bench or anywhere else for that matter and they will listen. Then when they think they have an idea of what is needed they will check with you. They will approach the services on your behalf, will take you to your first appointment and support you through that process. The jobs about explaining the service to you and you to the service - and you get your say at every step.

Contact details

OMNI
Links Two, Links Business Centre
Old Woking Road
Old Woking
Surrey
GU22 8BF

Tel: 01483 756899
Fax: 01483 725275

PROMOTE Housing Team

PROMOTE works with people who have recently left prison and are finding it hard to get into the routine of paying the bills and keeping that vital roof over your head.

We know just how difficult it can be to move from having everything thought out for you and 3 square a day, and to be suddenly given a roof and left to get on with it.

All those bills just keep piling up and its embarrassing to say that its all a bit much - everyone seems to think all that stuff is easy. Probation haven't got the time and before long you can end up thinking bollocks and getting pissed and perhaps re-offending.

We don't really want that to happen and we don't think you do either so we do anything necessary to keep that roof over your head. We don't make it free but we can negotiate on your behalf with the electric people, the gas board and the council/housing association and anyone for that matter and get the bills down to an affordable amount. After all if you end up back in prison its all of us who suffer not just you.

Contact details

PROMOTE Housing Team
Links Two, Links Business Centre
Old Woking Road
Old Woking
Surrey
GU22 8BF

Tel: 01483 730019
Fax: 01483 725275

LINKS

LINKS is an outreach team who comes to you if you've got problems with your tenancy and you drink or use drugs.

Using drugs or alcohol can make things a bit blurry around the edges and days can blur into nights. Dates get forgotten and bills are not high on your priority list. That's not to say you want to end up homeless though is it?

LINKS will help you as much as you want to be able to negotiate your bills to an extent that you can manage. If you want it they can also help put you in touch with someone to talk to about your drug or alcohol use - but its up to you. What they are about is helping you to keep that roof over your head and stay off the street.

Contact details

LINKS Housing Team
Links Two, Links Business Centre
Old Woking Road
Old Woking
Surrey
GU22 8BF

Tel: 01483 730019
Fax: 01483 725275

PROMOTE / LINKS

As from April 2011 these two teams will merge. We have needed to take this step as a rationalisation of this sort of service provision across the county (and the country) but our staff remain just as dedicated to helping people with tenancy problems. Over the last year we have helped many people to sustain their living accommodation. Each eviction costs society on average 34K and we are proud to be helping to reduce this enormous figure.

Counselling

SAdAS has always been proud to offer 1:1 face to face counselling for drug and alcohol use across Surrey.

Currently due to cutbacks we are only able to provide this service in Surrey Heath, Guildford and Waverley boroughs, however for these boroughs we know the impact that such counselling can provoke. All our counselling staff are volunteers all of whom are professionally qualified and highly trained, and all of whom give their time because they want to. If you’ve got a problem then it might be a good idea to speak to someone about it.

Contact us for an appointment today.

Contact details

Tel: 01483 590150

Groups

Don’t forget sometimes its great to get the support of a group of people who have been there too. SAdAS runs several groups broadly aimed at helping people overcome problems to do with Anger Management, but we also have groups aimed at relapse prevention general support and overdose prevention. Maybe joining a group is just what might help so call us. All our groups are friendly places to be where you will feel it’s easy to speak about the things that concern you.

CIAG

The Community Incident Action Group are groups which meet every couple of months and exist in every borough council.

They are groups which look at people who have caused an 'incident' within the relevant borough. This is usually people who have been arrested on more than one occasion and who have been identified as needing some help to avoid further arrests and eventually imprisonment.

Our CIAG workers try very hard to avoid this last and work with people across a variety of issues that they might have. Are you running into rent arrears, have you got a court case coming up, are the letters piling up, do you feel harassed by your local agencies such as police and social services and most of all do you want to make a change?

We advocate at this meeting on your behalf. We come to you and work on an outreach basis and we promote your viewpoint at every turn. Its like having a 'friend in your corner' and mostly we are able to enable the individual to stay out of jail and become more secure.