Find the help you need
The support you receive in Kent is most likely to come from one of three organisations. Which one will depend on your age and where you live. We’ve chosen the organisations that provide the best services, and work with them to make sure they continue to do so.
Follow the links that are relevant to you. Get help, friendly advice or treatment.
Help for adults with alcohol or opiate dependency living in:
- Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone and Hythe, Swale and Thanet
- Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells, and Tonbridge and Malling.
For help if you are under the age of 18, or under the age of 25 and are not physically dependent on drugs and/or alcohol visit the We Are With You website.
Other support if you are:
- a professional trying to help someone
- worried about a friend or family member
- looking to exchange (PDF, 121.5 KB) or dispose of needles.
Where you’ll find these support services
Here are the contact details for the main support services in Kent. There may also be support available closer to where you live, contact your nearest service to see how they can help.
Forward Trust
- Contact the Ashford hub
- Contact the Canterbury hub
- Contact the Dover and South Kent Coast hub
- Contact the Sittingbourne and Swale hub
- Contact the Thanet hub
Change, Grow, Live
Visit the Change, Grow, Live website
We Are With You
Visit the We Are With You website
Reach Out and Recover Kent - Kent’s lived experience recovery organisation
Read our support with daily living page to find out more about the full range of services in Kent.
Confidentiality
We aim to keep all our discussions with you confidential, but sometimes the support service you use may have to give your information to other people. For example, you might need urgent medical care, so the hospital would need to know certain things about you. Situations like this this don’t happen very often, and we would always try to tell you before passing on any information.
You can find out more about this by contacting the support service that’s helping you:
- Forward Trust: info@forwardtrust.org.uk
- Change, Grow, Live: WestKent.FirstStep@cgl.org.uk
- With You: yadmin@wearewithyou.org.uk