Setting
Park House
Purpose
To stabilise and rehabilitate adults with drug and alcohol problems
Funding
£1.4m a year from Birmingham City Council's public health department
Background
Parents with drug and alcohol problems can struggle to cope and in the worst cases, children may be taken into care.
Traditionally, drug and alcohol treatment facilities have been fairly isolated from community and family life, but a new centre in Birmingham is trying to change that by offering an "all-under-one-roof" approach to drug and alcohol detoxification, stabilisation and rehabilitation.
"In the past, people would be sent away and live in a bubble for six months," says service manager Marcus Parsons. "When they got back, they had lost those vital connections with local services, friends, family and support groups, so were more likely to relapse."
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