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Soilse. (2014) Soilse annual review 2013. Dublin: Health Service Executive.

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Soilse is the Health Service Executive's addiction rehabilitation service and is based in Dublin city centre. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive, holistic addiction rehabilitation service that empowers those in recovery to move towards a drug-free lifestyle.

2013 was a year of consolidation and change at Soilse. Our Henrietta Place programme slowly came back on stream following its closure for the last six months of 2012 due to a lack of staff. In response, we reconfigured staff and made recovery the core focus of our activities. This was manifested in several ways:
• The EU Lifelong Learning Grundtvig proposal on recovery and adult education, in which we are involved along with four other European counties, was accepted by Brussels.
• We identified eight ‘recovery coaches’ who are training in Dublin City University (DCU) in a course also sponsored by Finglas Addiction Support Team (FAST).
• We placed a bigger recovery emphasis into the programme in terms of groups, aftercare, fellowships and so on.
• We began working on a paper to illustrate the potential of recovery in an Irish context (see Principles of Recovery, Appendix 2).
• We held a Recovery Week for Henrietta Place participants before Christmas focusing on relapse prevention, treatment, CBT, planning for Christmas, NA meetings and recovery education.

Our links within the HSE Northern Area continuum improved significantly due to greater dialogue and co-operation. Uniquely in Ireland, this continuum consists of a detox preparation programme (Soilse), a detox (Cuan Dara), a therapeutic residential treatment (Keltoi) and a drug-free programme (Soilse). This is supported through the process by the Rehabilitation Integration Service (RIS).

We continued our partnership with the City of Dublin Education and Training Board (formerly CDVEC), offering service users literacy support, career guidance and the opportunity to attain Level 3 FETAC awards including a full certificate. We formalised our partnership with Gateway Women’s Project. In addition, we audited the incorporation of NDRIC protocols and guidelines into our care planning procedures and documentation. This work will continue in 2014. In the latter part of the year we devoted considerable energy to the issues of housing and homelessness. These had a substantial impact on our service users due to the acute lack of transitional and permanent accommodation and the reconfiguration of homeless services which saw the withdrawal of ‘step down’ facilities.


Item Type
Report
Publication Type
Irish-related, Report
Drug Type
All substances
Date
2014
Pages
27 p.
Publisher
Health Service Executive
Corporate Creators
Soilse
Place of Publication
Dublin
EndNote
Accession Number
HRB (Electronic Only)
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