The Suffolk Partnership for Addiction and Care Engagement [space] is an organisation of men and women who have been, or are, successfully engaged with drug and alcohol treatment services in Suffolk. The partnership brings together these individuals and groups, to form one main body carrying a united voice for service users in Suffolk.

space believe that service user involvement is not just about current drug and alcohol treatment: involving service user’s and their valuable first hand experience, contributes toward the long-term success of drug and alcohol treatment.

Though space is an independent and autonomous group of service and ex-service users, the Suffolk DAAT [Drug and Alcohol Action Team] provide important and much welcomed guidance through training, financing, and administrative support.

Currently the partnership comprises of service and ex-service users from some of the following service and treatment providers:
• SMS East [Formerly: Community Drug Team / CDT]
• Focus 12 
• Iceni
• SMS West [Formerly: West Suffolk Drug Service / WSDS]
• Ipswich Borough Council [Housing]
• The Junction 
• NORCAS [Ipswich and Lowestoft]
• Criminal Justice Intervention Team / Drug Intervention Program
• [Formerly: Suffolk Treatment and Arrest Referral Team / START]

Additional members are welcomed at any stage in the development of the partnership and the implementation of its ideas. You don't need to be out of treatment to have a valid opinion about the future of treatment for yourself and others.