Sheffield News
Do you know that Sheffield have a Sheffield Recovery Community Facebook page that provides all the latest news, activities and celebrating people's journeys. You can follow the Sheffield Recovery Community Facebook page by clicking here.
To read the stories or see the videos or people's recovery journeys that were produced during the National Recovery Month, September 2022; please click here.
Sheffield Health & Social Care - START, run a variety of activities for people in recovery. If you want to find out more information on what is available contact carl.bridden@shsc.nhs.uk or phone on 0114 3050500.
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. The virus is passed via blood-to-blood contact. This means that blood infected with hepatitis C must get into the bloodstream of an uninfected person to be passed on.
The most common way that hepatitis C is passed on in the UK is when people share needles or other drug-related items e.g. spoons, water, filters, and notes and straws. It is estimated that more than 100,000 people in the UK are living with hepatitis C. Many people do not know that they have the virus because people with hepatitis C do not always display any symptoms.
The good news is that hepatitis C is curable. 95% of people who receive treatment for hepatitis C make a full recovery. Treatment for hepatitis C is in tablet form. The virus can be cleared in just 8-12 weeks. There are none or very few side effects. If left untreated, hepatitis C can cause serious damage to the liver.
The Hepatitis C Trust exists to find people at risk of the virus and eliminate hepatitis C in the UK by 2030. The charity aims to reach everybody living with or at risk of hepatitis C in the UK with effective education, testing and support through treatment. The Trust is working within Sheffield and can meet you in your place of choice to have a test. They will support you through your treatment every step of the way and also screen for Hepatitis B and HIV.
Interested or have a Question? Please give The Hepatitis C Trust a call on: 020 7089 6221 or find out more about The Hepatitis C Trust
This year’s Project 6 Ideas Conference brings together individuals and groups from across our sector, and wider, to explore how taking an ‘ecosystem approach’, and supporting new ideas can create more choice and opportunity for people who want to access support.
Programme is as follows;
9.30 – Registration
The morning will feature two panel discussions with experts in their various fields of commissioning, research, culturally empathic service delivery, policy, and more. There’ll be lively debate about the response so far to the 10-year drug plan; what’s working and what’s still not working.
12.30 – Lunch and networking
Afternoon workshops including:
- Recovery Street Film Festival: Screenings and Q+A with filmmakers
- Anyone’s Child and Transform Drug Policy Foundation
- Camerados Public Living Room
- Exploring Drug and Alcohol Ecosystems
16.00 – Close
It will be held on the 22nd of June 2023 at the CAST Theater in Doncaster. The early bird rate of £75 is available. Tickets are now on sale.
Project 6 have also put out the first in a series of podcasts that will help to set the scene for the conference. This one is about the impact of drug policy on women: https://project6.org.uk/podcast/
Together Women
Free Cooking & Nutrition Classes have recently resumed at Together Women Centre. The classes take place Thursdays, 11am-1pm, term-time only.
This is a chance to gain life-skills qualification in the following areas;
- Basic food preparation and cooking
- Teamwork and communication
- Health and Safety awareness in catering
- Credits 3/2/1 (6) Level 1
If any of your service users wish to attend and/or for additional information, please contact FrancescaF@togetherwomen.org
Together Women are looking forward to welcoming new participants to their women-only space.
CONNECTIONS Launch Party on the 1st of April 2023
START Recovery Hub - CONNECTIONS
CONNECTIONS is now being held every Saturday from 1-7pm at 44 Sidney Street, Sheffield, S1 4RH. Please use the Matilda Street entrance. This is a group that has been formed by members of the recovery community themselves and will be delivered by members of the recovery community. Please come along, if possible, and support the hard work and dedication that they have put in to getting this group formed and up and running.
This group includes;
- Positive peer support
- A safe space
- Refreshments and activities
For more information, please contact carl.bridden@shsc.nhs.uk or call 0114 3050 500
Inspiring Change
CLEROs was started by dedicated and visionary founding members back in 2020, the College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations has grown into an impactful Community & Movement.
Mission: The aim is to develop a Recovery Strategy that is signed up to by key leadership figures and organisations from the (addiction) recovery sector in the UK. The focus will be on Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (LEROs), and has the idea of active citizenship at its core. CLEROs want to build coherence, trust, credibility and consensus for recovery groups and communities based on a model that promotes an evidence-based approach predicated on Lived Experience. This model will have at its heart: A Human Rights framework Core values and principles based on Recovery Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC)
Underlying principles: Principle 1: LEROs are Informed by a primary relationship with their community and act in response to the needs and aspirations of their community, recognising and employing the assets and competencies that already exist. Principle 2: Everything done in and by a LERO is informed through co-production Principle 3: LEROs are informed by a Human Rights-based approach, including the right to live healthy lives.
Values: Community Inclusivity & Equality Honesty & Transparency People Centred & Strengths Based Promote & Champion Lived Experience
Click this link to find out more about CLERO's or to register as a LERO
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