Substance Misuse All-Age Recovery Coordination Service (AARCS)

The All Age Recovery Co-ordination Service (AARCS) is a fully integrated service for both adults and young people needing support with alcohol and or drug dependence. AARCS provides a broad range of community-based support and interventions, including engagement with wider partner agencies to aid and enhance sustained recovery, including criminal justice, housing, education, training, employment and mentoring support. AARCS also makes a significant contribution to ECC's commitment to safety, for example, delivering advice and education to children and young people, as well as other preventative approaches to break the cycle of inter-generational dependency, thereby interrupting the supply and demand for drugs, and in turn reducing the risk of those being drawn into offending behaviour and/ or criminal exploitation. Importantly, the Drug Rehabilitation Requirements (DRRs), a community treatment order for drug misusing offenders is delivered by this service and provides an important element of both community safety and the effective rehabilitation of offenders. The model for delivery of the service supports the Council's commitment to place based working. Providing peripatetic support, from satellite and co located settings across the County to deliver community based interventions which can be adapted and flexed to meet the specific needs of individuals and groups within the local area.