Nottingham City Crime and Drugs Partnership (CDP) recently completed a full review of the drug treatment system within the City. Following the findings of the Review, a new treatment system model was developed and is now being implemented.

The Treatment system review and the resulting Delivery Framework put Mentoring and Advocacy at the heart of the new treatment system significantly enhancing the role they would play. These documents made a number of key recommendations for Mentoring and Advocacy within the new model. These included:

• Mentoring should be available to all clients through out the whole of their treatment journey – from access and engagement through to continuing care and beyond. This will aid engagement, retention, successful completion and planned exits from treatment.



• There should be culturally specific mentoring support to maximise accessibility to treatment for drug users from across diverse communities. This will enable clients to receive culturally specific support alongside drug treatment.



• Mentoring should provide opportunities for ex service users to volunteer. This should lead to wider training and employment opportunities in the field.



• Advocacy provision should be available to all clients.

The Mentoring Strategy can be downloaded from this page, or by clicking here.

Comments and feedback are invited on the strategy from all partners and agencies.

All comments will be considered and taken into account in order to ensure that the strategy is as robust and up to date as possible and will be used to inform the final service specification that will dictate how mentoring is delivered.

Comments should be submitted to Mark Garner at mark.garner@nottinghamcity.gov.uk by Friday 19th February 2010.