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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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!

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

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

8. 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’

9. Thanks! Brian Morgan 07545 201594 brian.morgan@westsussex.gov.uk
Glen Carpenter