A two day conference entitled ‘Families and the Heroin Crisis – 20 Years of Neglect’ was held in Dublin in October 1999. The conference was organised jointly by Community Response and Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign to build on the work of the Community Response Family Project.

Citywide and Community Response share the commitment to making links between community development activity on the ground and policy development at local, regional and national level. The two organisations came together to organise a conference which will allow the experience and learning of the Community Response Family Project to be shared with other communities and presented to policy makers.