this is our cafe. is this your cafe? yeah! and she has asked to come and see it. this place has been- called the beating heart of the recovery community of birkenhead. she has written the latest major report on addiction and recovery services in england. there are very good areas of practice, but actually what i found was a broken service. i didn t find good, ifound bad. she wants improvements a morejoined up approach. how many people can you take at once? as many as you can fit in the door. we don t have a limit. and huge investment in specialist staff, maybe something like we are seeing here. we have been working with people who are often amongst the most marginalised in our communities, who come in broken and who leave healed. dame carol told the government they needed to spend £1 billion to change things. she got £780 million.
relationship with his little boy and hoping he will soon join hannah s son here for overnight stays, making it a properfamily home. for mike, dame carol s visit here is a unique opportunity. mike introduced himself. he has been with us through service, volunteering, the discovery academy. it s not every day the lad from birkenhead gets to tell his story in person to the government s most important drugs advisor. it is my two year birthday today. i am two years clean and sober today. i have got a real passion for this and i really want to help people. what was your problem? drugs or alcohol? both. alcohol and drugs were hand in hand for me. they saved my life and from volunteering i applied for a job, and now i am recovery co ordinator for the non opiate team. fantastic. that makes me very happy. dame carol is happy because mike s story is one of hope. perhaps most importantly, it shows others caught
she has written the latest major report on addiction and recovery services in england. there are very good areas of practice, but actually what i found was a broken service. i didn t find good, ifound bad. she wants improvements a morejoined up approach. how many people can you take at once? as many as you can fit in the door. we don t have a limit. and huge investment in specialist staff, maybe something like we are seeing here. we have been working with people who are often amongst the most marginalised in our communities, who come in broken and who leave healed. dame carol told the government they needed to spend £1 billion to change things. she got £780 million. not a bad result the most money recovery services have seen in a generation. my question to you is how do
for mike, dame carol s visit here is a unique opportunity. mike introduced himself. he has been with us through service, volunteering, the discovery academy. it s not every day the lad from birkenhead gets to tell his story in person to the government s most important drugs advisor. it is my two year birthday today. i am two years clean and sober today. i have got a real passion for this and i really want to help people. what was your problem? drugs or alcohol? both. alcohol and drugs were hand in hand for me. they saved my life and from volunteering i applied for a job, and now i am recovery co ordinator for the non opiate team. fantastic. that makes me very happy. dame carol is happy because mike s story is one of hope. perhaps most importantly, it shows others caught in the vortex of the drugs or the drink, that things can change. that there can be life after addiction. i am extremely happy, i m not depressed. there are a lot of things that
they are planning a future. mike is rebuilding his relationship with his little boy and hoping he will soon join hannah s son here for overnight stays, making it a properfamily home. for mike, dame carol s visit here is a unique opportunity. mike introduced himself. he has been with us through service, volunteering, the discovery academy. it s not everyday the lad from birkenhead gets to tell his story in person to the government s most important drugs advisor. it is my two year birthday today. i am two years clean and sober today. i have got a real passion for this and i really want to help people. what was your problem? drugs or alcohol? both. alcohol and drugs were hand in hand for me. they saved my life and from volunteering i applied for a job, and now i am recovery co ordinator for the non opiate team. fantastic. that makes me very happy. dame carol is happy because mike s story is one of hope.