Agencia is well known for its expertise in clinical service change, its integration of health and social care services and its commitment to service users. Andrew Gibson, Joint Managing Director of Agencia says: “we have a vision for this service – to work on the overall wellbeing of drug users who are committed to recovery, and to help them win through.”
The Agencia service will meet the prescribing needs of registered users. A wide range of support will help them to build recovery into all aspects of their lives and the role of Agencia will include providing constructive challenge to individual service users, and the partnership of organisations involved, in order to maximise recovery outcomes. Effective partnership with a broad range of support organisations is therefore key to the approach.
Stewart Atkinson, of the North Lincolnshire Substance Misuse Team comments “we were keen to move to a single provider model. We have all sorts of good practice and great organisations locally, and wanted a provider who could draw all this together for the benefit of service users and the wider community. We believe Agencia can lead in doing that.”
In order to effectively deliver this 3 year contract, Agencia has recruited a number of new team members. These include Graeme Dixon; Operational Manager for the service, Keith Hunter; General Manager and Helen Kirk; a psychosocial support worker. They will be supported by Tom Lemanski; data management and performance monitoring.
To find out more about the Active Change Community Recovery Service, or how Agencia could provide your service, please contact Andrew Gibson, Joint Managing Director, Agencia.
