RAPt - Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust

Riverside House
27-29 Vauxhall Grove
London
SW8 1SY

Tel: 020 7582 4677
Web: www.rapt.org.uk

RAPt is a charity which helps people with drug and alcohol dependence move towards, achieve and maintain drug and crime-free lives. They provide high-quality services to over 13,000 people every year within the criminal justice system, including being one of the leading providers of intensive drug rehabilitation programmes in prisons in the UK. In the community, they deliver treatment and aftercare for offenders, ex-offenders, and also people referred from outside the criminal justice system.

RAPt has developed a 12 Step drug treatment programme for men and women caught up in the criminal justice system and these programmes have proved extremely successful in helping prisoners regain control of their lives and their offending. The programme lasts approximately 16 weeks and involves group work, counselling, complementary therapies and community activities on a prison wing in which a drug free environment is enforced. There are currently 10 treatment programmes running in nine prisons across the UK and 850 clients are referred onto the programmes each year.

RAPt provides Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Through-care services (CARAT) on contract to HMPS in 17 prisons. RAPt CARAT services currently engage approximately 10,000 prisoners per year. The CARAT team will engage with prisoners on reception when they arrive into custody and complete an initial assessment of need. All prisoners that have been identified with substance misuse issues will work with a CARAT worker to look at treatment plans and harm reduction initiatives. They will also work with prisoners with release planning and through-care.

RAPt also provides an abstinence based day programme and single point of contact helpline on contract to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Drug Action Team called the Island Day Programme, operates a residential rehabilitation centre in Hull, The Bridges, set up to help offenders resettle into the community when they leave prison and runs the Surrey Alcohol Brief Intervention Service (SABIS) that caters for problem alcohol users in the community around Guildford.