RAPt is a significant UK provider of quality drug and alcohol treatment services and programmes, successfully delivering services to offenders in some of the toughest criminal justice settings. RAPt is responsible for the delivery of a range of specialist services, made up of contracts to Her Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS), Drug Action Teams (DATs) and a wholly owned residential treatment centre in Hull.
RAPt has developed a 12 Step drug treatment programme for men and women caught up in the criminal justice system and these programmes have proved extremely successful in helping prisoners regain control of their lives and their offending. The programme lasts approximately 16 weeks and involves group work, counselling, complementary therapies and community activities on a prison wing in which a drug free environment is enforced. There are currently 10 treatment programmes running in nine prisons across the UK and 850 clients are referred onto the programmes each year.
RAPt provides Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Through-care services (CARAT) on contract to HMPS in 17 prisons. RAPt CARAT services currently engage approximately 10,000 prisoners per year. The CARAT team will engage with prisoners on reception when they arrive into custody and complete an initial assessment of need. All prisoners that have been identified with substance misuse issues will work with a CARAT worker to look at treatment plans and harm reduction initiatives. They will also work with prisoners with release planning and through-care
RAPt provides an abstinence based day programme and single point of contact helpline on contract to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Drug Action Team called the Island Day Programme. This is a structured and accredited 12-week day programme for those experiencing drug and alcohol problems and who want to become abstinent. The programme works across the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
RAPt operates a residential rehabilitation centre in Hull, The Bridges, set up to help offenders resettle into the community when they leave prison. This is a 26-bed high care service that provides secondary treatment for offenders with drug and alcohol problems. The service provides holistic care, personal development work and relapse prevention.
And finally in 2007 RAPt set up the Surrey Alcohol Brief Intervention Service (SABIS) that caters for problem alcohol users in the community around Guildford. The programme is designed to deliver programmes of intervention for the county's adult alcohol user who have problems associated with their alcohol consumption and who have come to the attention of the criminal justice system
RAPt programmes are geographically located across England and Wales in the following areas:
Central to the ethos
of the RAPt programme is
that one addict helps
another
Prison Estates
- HMP Send
- HMP Holloway
- HMP Downview
- HMP Coldingley
- HMP Everthorpe
- HMP Littlehey
- HMP The Mount
- HMP Norwich
- HMP Swaleside
- HMP Wandsworth
- HMP Bullingdon
- HMP Grendon/HMP Springhill
- HMP Pentonville
- HMP Latchmere House
- HMP Brixton
- HMP Wormwood Scrubs
- HMP Winchester
- HMP Kingston
- HMP High Down
- HMP Elmley
- HMP Standford Hill
Community Programmes
Why we are needed
50% of those in prison are drug addicts and at any one time 1/3 of addicts will be in prison.
The total costs to the economy of problem drug users has been estimated at about £15.4bn per year or £44,000 per user
Prison is an ideal time for offenders to break the cycle of addiction, crime and imprisonment. Many use this as a reminder of the consequences of their addiction to make a determined effort to change their lifestyles.