This research project was commissioned by the Dublin North East Task Force to evaluate the role of current special Community Empoyment (CE) programmes in addressing the rehabilitative needs of clients in recovery, to review and examine models of rehabilitation within CE programmes and to assess the need to establish or extend special CE programmes to local drug projectrs working with recovering problem drug users.

The recommendations and framework for best practice presented are drawn from the learning, experience and insight of the Drugs Task Force stakeholders and other key informants. The recommendations range from simple, easily achieved steps towards better practice, to ambitious steps that require changes in policy direction at national level and sustained work to oversee them.