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New Treatment Centre Opens in Ipswich Town Centre
Next Friday, 3rd June, sees the official launch of the new Open Road Treatment Centre in Princes Street, Ipswich. Dr Amanda Jones, Deputy Director of Public Health, NHS Suffolk and guest of honour will officially open the centre at 12.00pm. Following on, staff and volunteers will offer tours and provide information about our services.
Open Road, the leading drug and alcohol treatment charity, recently commenced contracts in Suffolk to provide support and treatment to people with drug and alcohol dependencies. Open Road’s approach is very much holistic; combining traditional counselling and structured support with complementary and cognitive therapy, making Open Road unique in the region. Staff and volunteers will be on hand to welcome visitors and tell them lots more about the services on offer.
The opening of the Ipswich Centre is one of three new centres in Suffolk; the other two are in central locations in Bury and Lowestoft.
Sarah Wright, CEO says: ‘We are very excited to be now working in Suffolk. We are already building a good network of contacts with other organisations who support our clients and their families in other ways, with housing, relationships, health, debt or other problems. We are keen to build on our track record in Essex and to make sure we form very good relationships with our new partners and service users in the Suffolk community. The launches of our Suffolk centres mark an important first step in achieving these aims.’
Open Road Ipswich provides structured day care programmes with the aim of helping clients and their families on the road to recovery. ‘We offer individual attention, confidentiality, trust and above all hope for the future.’ Says Sarah, ‘This has been our guiding principle for over 20 years and continues to be effective for the vast majority of our clients.’
A former service user in Ipswich and current Open Road volunteer added: ‘My confidence was at an all time low and my anger was uncontrollable. With the support I received I am now calm, relaxed and I have regained my confidence. Open Road has helped me start an NVQ Level 3 in Advice and Guidance which I am on the road to successfully completing, hopefully in the next year.”
All three Suffolk launches are taking place in ‘Recovery Month’ – a regional initiative to promote the many organisations across the Eastern Region that support people struggling with addictions. Look out for other Recovery Month events happening across the region.
Notes to Editors:
Open Road is a registered charity and leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment services in the East of England. For over 20 years Open Road has delivered high quality services to empower individuals and families to recover from the harmful impact of drugs and alcohol. Every year Open Road helps thousands of individuals and their families, offering a range of one to one support, group therapy and harm reduction services. Open Road currently employs 90 staff and has a team of over 100 volunteers who actively support our work.
Open Road is funded through both the Essex and the Suffolk Drug and Alcohol Action Partnerships, Primary Care Trusts, the Big Lottery Fund, charitable trusts and individual donations. In 2010/11 Open Road is expected to receive over £2 million in income.
For further information about this event and Open Road please contact: Carol Macaskill, Marketing & Communications Manager on tel: 01206 369782 Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).