It's Talk Time 2017 - Your Service Have Your Say! - Service Users Forum

As part of International Women's week, SAOL has joined forces with CAN to bring the women who use our drug and alcohol services together to talk about their experiences.

This year theme is Your Service Have Your Say!

This is the fifth time women service users will have the opportunity to come together to talk about what it is like being a woman in drug and alcohol services (and other services too); the intention is that this will lead to greater awareness and thereby improved services for women in the future.

Our speakers and discussion topics are following research which service users have been carrying out over the past year. The research is in connection with the service user’s action campaign.

This year we are asking you to come and discuss and share your experiences regarding:

• Choice of treatment
• Urine Analysis
• Meaningful Review while on treatment
• Complaints Procedures

Discussion topics will emerge from some open-ended questions for groups and then feedback will be given to the whole group. Registration begins at 10am and the meeting will start at 10:30 and will go on until 1:00. Tea/Coffee and snacks will be provided.

We hope that Projects will do two things:

• Promote the event by word of mouth and displaying the attached poster in your service and alerting the women to its existence
• Where possible, assist in getting the women of your service to Ballybough Community Centre on 10th March 2017 for 10:00am - 1:00pm.

For further details, please contact Belinda at SAOL (01 8553391/3)