If you haven’t already taken York’s Lower My Drinking quiz you can take the quiz now to help you to work out what support is most relevant for you.
City of York Council Health Trainers
City of York Council Health Trainers are a team of expert local health trainers, providing you with personalised individual support and advice to help you make the changes you want to see in relation to reducing alcohol, healthy eating, quit smoking and getting more active. For more details, see: CYC Health Trainers – City of York Council or request an appointment.
Changing Habits
The Changing Habits team is on hand to support you if you want to change unhelpful drinking patterns and build new ways of coping with life's challenges. You can access up to 8 support sessions in a community venue close to your home to help you make the changes you want to see. To find out more, see the Changing Habits leaflet or call the Changing Habits team: 01904 621776. You can also get in touch via the online contact form (scroll down to the bottom of the page).
York Drug and Alcohol Service
York Drug and Alcohol Service is run by specialists from Changing Lives and Spectrum CIC and offers a range of support for individuals, young people and families affected by their own or someone else's substance use.
- Blossom St Team – recovery workers and clinical staff provide specialist support for those who are drinking at possible dependency levels or using other substances
- Young Person’s Service – one-to-one support in community locations for anyone under 21 affected by their own or someone else’s substance use
- Oaktrees Team – run the Oaktrees 12 week abstinence-based day rehabilitation programme and ‘Keep it Simple’ weekly sessions
Find more information, the relevant contact details and an online contact form on the Changing Lives website. The teams will help you work out which support is right for you.
Fancy a Cuppa at York’s recovery cafés?
York’s recovery cafes are warm, friendly spaces to come and find out what’s happening for those in recovery around York. If you're looking for support, affected by addiction or want to support recovery, you're welcome to drop in. Whether you stopped drinking 10 years ago, 2 weeks ago, or you're still drinking and want to come and meet people and scope out what it’s all about, you're very welcome. Call in and have a chat:
- Tuesdays 4.30-6.30pm Run by York in Recovery at Acomb Garth Community Care Centre, 2 Oak Rise, YO24 4LJ. For more details, call Mark - 07724 312084.
- Thursdays 1-4pm Run by York in Recovery at St Bede’s Pastoral Centre, 21 Blossom Street, YO24 1AQ For more details, call Mark - 07724 312084.
- Sundays 11am-1pm Run by York in Recovery at Clementhorpe Community Centre, Lower Ebor St, YO23 1AY. For more details, call Mark - 07724 312084.
York in Recovery
We at York in Recovery are experts in lived experience and therefore offer a safe space, fun activities, and companionship for members of the York community who are either in recovery or who may not be in recovery but have an interest. We’re a judgement free zone, we’ve all walked in each others shoes, so if you’re considering starting your path to recovery, or if you’ve been in recovery for some time and are looking for a bunch of like-minded people to hang out with – come along! Find out more at the York in Recovery website.
There are a wide range of mutual aid groups running in York. York Drug and Alcohol Service can give you more information, or see:
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
- Cocaine Anonymous (CA)
- Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
- UK SMART Recovery You can also call Claire on 07773363166 to find out more about SMART Recovery groups in York.
Rehab
In York, you can join Oaktrees, York’s community rehab, which offers 12 weeks of intensive full-time support to address substance use and the issues underlying it. You attend during the day Monday-Friday but you leave for evenings and weekends and sleep in your own bed. Contact the Oaktrees team to find out more: 01904 621776 / oaktrees.york@changing-lives.org.uk, or find out about Oaktrees here.
A residential rehab offers the same type of intensive support to address substance use and often the issues underlying it while you live in a residential facility away from York which is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can find out more about residential rehab at Live Well York | Residential Rehab for Substance Use Disorders.
