Second Stage Residential Recovery Project

It is important to recognise that people who have completed their initial programme of recovery, may not wish, or be able, to return 'home'; it is also important that they do not stay in primary rehabilitation projects longer than is necessary.

The Malthouse

The Malthouse in Uckfield, East Sussex, benefits from on-site staff and runs a continuing recovery programme, based around group work and counselling. It seeks to offer guidance, encouragement and residential support to a maximum of eight men who wish to establish, or re-establish for themselves a positive and productive way of life, free from alcohol and other drugs. Encouragement will be given to assist residents to grow in their recovery and to leave behind any attitudes or behaviours belonging to their old life.

With this in mind, each person coming to the Malthouse must be prepared and willing, to make far-reaching changes from his former life-style and to co-operate fully with the programme and with the process which will bring these changes about. He must be willing to accept responsibility for his own behaviour and also adopt a caring and considerate attitude towards the community as a whole.

The ethos of the community is one of openness and honesty in which residents will be expected to discuss, in a safe environment, those things which have troubled them or have defeated them in the past.

In the first four weeks, all residents will spend time with staff, to identify principal needs and to devise an appropriate care plan, which will in turn form the basis of their subsequent recovery programme. A staged process of gradually reduced programme input, which will be negotiated and agreed with staff, at each stage, will follow the initial period. This will be over a 3 to 6 month time scale.

All members of the community will be expected to play a full and active part in the life of the Malthouse and, following the initial settling-in period, will also engage with the wider community in Uckfield.

Adult education facilities are available on-site and locally. Residents will be expected to fulfil voluntary and work-experience opportunities.

The Malthouse also provides a Community Counselling Service for people living in the locality who need counselling for addiction issues, on a sessional basis.

There is a resident House Manager/Counsellor and Adult Education Tutor.

Finance

Whilst providing support, these projects are not Registered Care Homes and as such are funded from a combination of Housing Benefit/Supporting People payments and DSS income. In some instances a payment will be required from the originating local authority for the day care support, being provided.

Staff and management of these projects are, in common with those in all Kenward Trust projects, committed Christians who seek to express their faith in their everyday lives.

For those requiring our residential rehabilitation, an application form is available here (requiring the free Adobe Acrobat reader- visit here to download if required) - please print this then complete and post to us.

Please contact us for details on availability.