The Dual Diagnosis Street Project (DDSP), based in Mill Road, work with entrenched rough sleepers who are still rough sleeping or who have recently moved into a hostel or temporary accommodation.
DDSP support service users, most of whom also experience mental health difficulties and use substances, to access mainstream services.
The DDSP team were vital partners in helping us achieve sustainable, lasting change for our guests, many of whom were already known to the service. Offering rough sleepers a long-term place at the project meant DDSP were able to arrange appointments that were less likely to be missed, as support staff were able to meet guests at Crossways.
“Graham and Iris from the Dual Diagnosis Street Project have been regular visitors to our Crossways project over the last two winters. Their expertise in their field and exceptional rapport with our guests have contributed enormously to our ability to accommodate chronically excluded individuals for meaningful periods of time, during which we were able to assist those guests to access other services with which they had previously failed to engage.