Starting from Scratch Service User Involvement in West Sussex Brian Morgan, West Sussex DAAT Glen Carpenter, Arun Exact

History Prior involvement in the County Importance of independence What is a ‘service user’? Exact ethos Positive Change and True Representation

Launch and Localities September 2009 launch – interactive, not just ‘talking heads’ Project split into six localities Arun (Bognor and Littlehampton etc) Chichester Crawley Horsham Mid Sussex (Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath etc) Worthing & Adur

Ownership Each group elect Chair and Secretary Helped from the start to become a community organisation Professional (ToR, Boundaries etc) Map local services themselves Neutral venue

Top down, but more bottom up! Exact Structure NTA DAAT Treatment Naïve/ waiting lists Exact Ex Service Users Arun Chichester Crawley Horsham Mid Sussex Worthing & Adur Addaction CRI Stonepillow Sussex Oakleaf Impact SASS Top down, but more bottom up!

What else? Speakers invited Social Networks Topical discussion Training Connected And, erm…fun!

Where next? Community organisations ‘Big Society’ Recovery RSA – ‘User Centred Drugs Services’ project Social Enterprise

Peer-led services Arun Exact CRI Addaction Sussex Oakleaf Stonepillow SASS Sussex Oakleaf Stonepillow Impact Identify gaps, assess need, make DAAT aware, devise business case, and then…? ‘Exact’

Thanks! Brian Morgan 07545 201594 brian.morgan@westsussex.gov.uk Glen Carpenter 07872 416483 arun.exact@rocketmail.com