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Housing at the Heart of Recovery
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HIGHLIGHTS
Walter Lyon House
With some 20 beds, including a
wing with fully accessible
bedrooms and bathrooms, Walter
Lyon House enjoys a lovely setting
on the outskirts of Lancaster.
The house has only recently been
extended and refurbished with
numerous counselling rooms and
highquality communal rooms as
well as pretty, relaxing grounds
for clients to enjoy.
Bradford
Purposebuilt only recently, TTP
Bradford is an inpatient detox centre
with stabilisation services. It has 12
bedrooms including one fully equipped
for disabled people. Clients stay an
average of two weeks in medically
supervised detox with support, coaching
and 24hour nursing care all inhouse.
‘I believe that this new
organisation is good news for the
sector and that we are moving
towards wider availability of
housing for those in treatment and
recovery. We now have a huge
variety of accommodation
available – everything from self-
catering flats to medical detox
beds with 24-hour nursing support
and all mod cons.
‘But of course, while the “bricks and mortar” are important,
there’s much more to what we do than just providing a
secure place for people to lay their heads. And that’s where
our support teams come in. We have a great bunch of people,
specialists, medics, coaches and volunteers and their
expertise and dedication is what turns our buildings into safe,
supported homes giving people a stable base to enable them
to get back out there as valuable members of the community.
‘The combination of the housing and our team give us a
great opportunity to make recovery more sustainable and
help clients achieve ambitious goals.’
Hayden Duncan