2010 All Wales Substance Misuse Service User Conference
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'Breaking the chains of addiction', was the second Annual All Wales Substance Misuse Service User Conference. Planned and organised by service users for service users, this conference was free to all users of drug and alcohol services across Wales and was attended by over 220 delegates on the day.
Programme
(Click on links to read abstracts/biographies)
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Chair: Glenn Abbott |
10.00am |
Delegate arrival and registration |
11.00am |
Welcome |
11.05am |
Improving quality of services - priorities for 2010
Karen Eveleigh, Substance Misuse - Quality Improvement, Welsh Assembly Government |
11.25am |
Successful treatment stories
Mark Whiteley, Marie Van Corley and Alan Andrews |
11.55am |
Movement Break |
12.00pm |
1 |
Room 3
Support for families and carers
Chair: Glenn Abbott
Charlotte Waite, Family Intervention Worker, CRAFT, Cardiff |
2 |
Main Hall
Service user involvement and peer mentoring
Chair: Chris Campbell, Founder & Director, The S.M.U.G. Wales
Mike Hardy, Programme Manager and Julie Annetts, Compliance and Performance Manager, ESF Peer Mentoring Project, Welsh Assembly Government and Rhian Jones, WGCADA Service Manager, ESF Peer Mentoring Project |
3 |
Room 2
Dual diagnosis
Chair: John Mills, Bridgend Involvement Group
Dr Zelda Summers, Consultant Psychiatrist in Substance Misuse, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg Unversity Health Board |
4 |
Room 1
Overdose and naloxone
Chair: Richard Hanmer, Service User Involvement Coordinator, Wrexham
Rhian Hills, Regional Advisor - Gwent Substance Misuse Advisory Team |
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1.00pm |
Lunch |
2.00pm |
1 |
Main Hall
Waiting times and prescribing: the service user experience
Chair: Gareth Joseph
Gareth Hewitt, Head of Substance Misuse, Strategy Implementation & Finance,and Conrad Eydmann, South Wales Substance Misuse Regional Advisor, Welsh Assembly Government |
2 |
Room 2
Service user involvement and peer mentoring
Chair: Chris Campbell, Founder & Director, The S.M.U.G. Wales
Mike Hardy, Programme Manager and Julie Annetts, Compliance and Performance Manager, ESF Peer Mentoring Project, Welsh Assembly Government and Rhian Jones, WGCADA Service Manager, ESF Peer Mentoring Project |
3 |
Room 3
Dual diagnosis
Chair: John Mills, Bridgend Involvement Group
Dr Zelda Summers, Consultant Psychiatrist in Substance Misuse, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg Unversity Health Board |
4 |
Room 1
Overdose and naloxone
Chair: Richard Hanmer, Service User Involvement Coordinator, Wrexham
Rhian Hills, Regional Advisor - Gwent Substance Misuse Advisory Team |
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3.00pm |
Recovery models
David Best, Reader in Criminal Justice, University of the West of Scotland |
3.30pm |
Speakers panel discussion |
4.00pm |
Break |
4.15pm |
Community Music Wales - A 'Brazilian Samba Drumming Workshop'
- All welcome! |
5.15pm |
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