East Hull Services
EOS is the East Hull Service of The Council for Dependency Problems (CDP). It provides an extension of the services offered by CDP, through both drop in centres across East Hull and outreach work.
This is a community based project with two main aims. First, to reduce the difficulties individuals may face in accessing city centre or West Hull services, such as women with child-care issues. Second, to reach people who have never previously accessed treatment.
The EOS Team work with other local professionals and a wide range of key agencies, who now feel better able to identify appropriate clients and provide referrals confidently.
Working together in this way, the Team can assess and meet the needs of service users in a variety of ways.
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Key Agencies and Partnerships
Housing Providers
We help service users to be housed in suitable accommodation and to take responsibility for playing their part in keeping their homes. We help with such things as:
- Advice and guidance including referral
- Signposting to service providers and agencies
- Access to advice and guidance on housing benefits, tenancies and rent arrears
- Assistance with emergency arrangements
- Notification of necessary risk management information to housing providers
- Access to supported provision through local Supporting People arrangements including Voluntary and Community Sector organisations
- Access to housing provision through Registered Social Landlords and the private sector
- Access to community-based housing advice services
- Maintaining tenancies
- Risks assessed and recorded
- Housing providers notified where the service user is remanded in custody
Social Services
We help service users to maintain and develop relationships with family and community. The aim is also to enable and encourage service users to be effective parents.
- Links to Voluntary Sector Family Support Groups
- Information about work that is available (e.g. Sure Start, service for young people leaving care)
- Families included in Case Management review procedures where practical
- Encourage participation in Family and Parenting courses when available
- Initiatives established to maintain family ties
- Work with Youth Offending Teams and Children’s Services in relation to young adults
- Contributing to child protection under local Safeguarding Children arrangements
- Engagement with domestic violence programmes
GP’s and other Health Services
We help ensure that primary health needs are met; and that mental health issues are fully assessed and taken into account in managing risk and addressing needs. We encourage and enable service users to establish healthy lifestyles that contribute to employment, learning, leisure activity and social behaviour. Some areas we cover are:
- Assistance in Registering with a GP and accessing primary health services
- Advice offered includes health promotion and positive mental health approaches
- Referral to specialist substance treatment provision
- Information about the range of community health services and healthy lifestyles/health improvement programmes
- Referral of service users who have suffered abuse to appropriate services
- Health assessment, specific areas of risk assessed and identified:
- Suicide prevention/ self-harm management
- Mental health issues
- Detoxification/ maintenance regimes for specific drugs
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East Hull Area
The EOS Service aims to provide support within various locations in the East Hull area, including:
- Bransholme Estate
- Longhill Estate
- Greatfield Estate
- Bilton Grange Estate
- Preston Road / Marfleet area
- Holderness Road
- Victoria Dock
- Kingswood
- Ings Road Estate
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Further Information
To view our leaflet on our East Hull Service, please click on this link.
To view our weekly timetable for Group Events and Drop In Sessions at various locations, please click on this link.
