Posted on: 23 February 2023
CNWL’s Milton Keynes Addiction Recovery Community (ARC-MK) hosted a ‘Love Yourself’ event on 16 February.
In line with the Hep CU Later campaign and coinciding with Valentine’s Day, service users were invited to take part in an array of activities covering physical health, mental health and wellbeing, and building positive relationships.
They were also given the opportunity to feedback on their experience working with ARC-MK.
Emily Clare, Sector Manager, believes the event was beneficial for staff as well as service users.
She said: “Our team, along with colleagues in Talking Therapies, iCaSH and SAMAS, loved meeting people on the day and helping them start their journey to better health and wellbeing.
“And receiving feedback at the ‘Meet the Managers’ section will allow us to continue providing a truly accessible service that delivers in line with what service users feel would support their recovery.”
ARC-MK is a service provided in partnership by CNWL and We Are With You as a free and confidential service for people who live in Milton Keynes.
The service helps people break a cycle of addiction to substances such as heroin, cocaine, and new psychoactive substance as well as long term alcohol or gambling addictions.
ARC-MK works with people at any stage of their alcohol, drug or gambling difficulties to provide a single point of access to assessment and treatment for problems.
The team recognises the importance of providing treatment for both the substance misuse problem, as well as any associated emotional / mental health issues.
Click here for more information on ARC-MK.