Kenward Trust. Kent Based Drug and Alcohol Support and Advice (Maidstone)

Kenward Trust offers a caring, supportive environment, providing the opportunity for individuals to develop and grow.

The Kenward Trust houses form a progression from first stage assessment and induction, through counselling, group work and rehabilitation processes, to supported second stage accommodation and assistance towards gaining independent, permanent accommodation where appropriate.

In each first stage house there are counselling and therapy staff whose principal task is to assist the resident to discover and confront those problems which led to dependency.

Someone coming to a Kenward Trust house will be offered a threefold opportunity:

Their immediate physical and medical well-being will be attended to by regular diet, visiting the local GP, dentist, optician and any other necessary medical specialist. A regular routine and productive day will soon become a welcome part of a new lifestyle.
Their psychological welfare will be assisted by, firstly, removing a number of more stressful anxiety producing hurdles which normally attend the rehabilitation process. They will be encouraged to enter their own recovery from the first day of their stay and will be guided through this via client centred counselling, group work, therapeutic activities including work and recreation, basic literacy and numeracy and life skills where appropriate.
Their spiritual development will be actively encouraged and nourished by participation in a community in which Christian principles are upheld and pastoral counselling is available. We do not expect, however, that all residents will have a Christian faith when they arrive. Neither is it necessary that they should convert to one. We welcome people of all faiths.

If you live in the West Kent Area, i.e. Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Maidstone, Cranbrook, Dartford, we have outreach workers in the community who may be able to visit you to discuss your problems.