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 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

Ashford

Address: Transport House, Drum Lane, Ashford TN23 1LQ
Website: visit the Forward Trust Ashford website
Email: ashford@forwardtrust.org.uk
Call: 01233 655 360 or 0300 304 8007 (evenings and weekends).

Thanet

Address: Mill Lane House, Mill Lane, Margate CT9 1LB
Website: visit the Forward Trust Thanet website
Email: thanet@forwardtrust.org.uk
Call: 01843 233 600 or 0300 304 8007 (evenings and weekends).

Change, Grow, Live

Website: visit the Change, Grow, Live website
Email: westkent.firststep@cgl.org.uk
Call: 0330 128 1113.

Addresses

Gravesend office: 8-9 Berkley Crescent, Gravesend, DA12 2AH
Maidstone office: Mill House, Mill Street, Maidstone, ME15 6XH
Tunbridge Wells office: 18 Mount Pleasant Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1QU

We Are With You

Address: Unit H, Jubilee Way, ME13 8GD, Faversham
Website: visit the We Are With You website
Call: 01795 500881.

Reach Out and Recover Kent - Kent’s lived experience recovery organisation

Reach Out and Recover Kent (ROAR) offer activities and peer support across the County. It is an organisation run by those with lived experience of drug and alcohol support and recovery.

Website: visit the ROAR website
Email: info.roarlerokent@gmail.com.

Read our support with daily living section 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