Addiction treatment
Residential addictions programme - one-to-one counselling & group therapy
Grant £25,000
Addiction can be hugely destructive. Almost a third of people sleeping rough in London have alcohol support needs and roughly the same proportion have substance addiction. Together, these things account for roughly half of the homeless deaths in the capital.
Acorn House – a hostel in Shoreditch run by Spitalfields Crypt Trust - offers its residents a safe and supportive place to come and recover from addiction, and leave behind chaotic lives where many of them have suffered through homelessness, trauma and/or mental health issues.
The hostel’s counselling team delivers intensive addiction and trauma therapy, and there are opportunities for developing skills and training, as well as creative outlets. Residents receive support with everything from social skills to housing and financial management, aiming to move from in supported housing, and eventually on to living independently and free from addiction. Most residents stay 6-9 months and leave sober, housed and with a sense of possibility and hope for the future.
