Service Standards for Addiction Therapeutic Communities

• In 2006 the Community of Communities was awarded a grant from the Big Lottery Fund to develop three new sets of Service Standards including the Service Standards for Addiction Therapeutic Communities

• The Service Standards were developed by an advisory group, chaired by Rowdy Yates, Director of the Scottish Drugs Training Project at the University of Stirling and Vice President of the European Federation of Therapeutic Communities (EFTC)

• The Service Standards are adapted from the Service Standards for Therapeutic Communities 5th Edition and are informed by a review of key documents referenced in the appendix

• The first draft of the Service Standards for Addiction Therapeutic Communities was sent to 120 communities, including client members and other experts in the field, for a broad consultation 

• There was generally a good consensus with most standards being rated as either "very important" or "important" to the quality of the service

• The Service Standards were pilotted in a first annual cycle by 10 Addiciton Therapeutic Communities with the results published in a National Report

• The Service Standards are now being used in a second annual cycle by 16 Addiction Therapeutic Communities

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