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Pathways Programmes
Day Programmes
Day Support Services can be seen as the first steps away from crisis drug use and towards rehabilitation. These services are aimed at people who are using street drugs, or are in treatment, and want to bring about more stability and structure in their lives.
Who can use this service?
Current drug users who want to become drug free.
What services are offered?
- Methadone prescribing, treatment and support (Dublin 8 area only)
- Therapeutic groups
- Personal development work
- Day support programmes and skills training
- Catering Training Programme
- Counselling
Opening Hours & Contact Details
Monday-Friday: 10am-4.30 pm
Open Thursday: 2.00pm-4.30pm only
Phone for an appointment on (01) 645 6535/645 6539
Settlement, Stabilisation & Integration
This is an innovative programme aimed at assisting the integration of former drug users into mainstream society. The programme involves working with former drug users, employers and training providers to ensure that systems and structures can be put in place to support the integration of former drug users. There is also a focus on resettlement and accessing appropriate accommodation, which is of particular importance in light of the current housing crisis. Through our structured 'Training for Trainers' programme, training providers are assisted in improving access to mainstream training for former drug users. It also ensures that trainers are equipped to cater to the needs of former drug users accessing training.
Who can use this service?
People who require support with housing, settlement and inclusion into society
What services are offered?
- Help with accommodation
- Training and employment support
- Aftercare Programmes
- Tenancy sustainment support
Opening Hours & Contact Details
Monday-Friday: 10am-4.30pm
Open Thursday: 2.00pm-4.30pm only
Drop in or phone for an appointment on (01) 645 6542/645 6576
National Addiction Counselling Service for Prisoners
Merchants Quay Ireland, in co-operation with the Irish Prison Service and its partners, is providing, from 2007, a counselling service for prisoners with drugs and alcohol problems. When fully rolled out the service will be available in 14 Prisons in all parts of the country. The service will offer structured assessments and evidence-based counselling interventions with clearly defined treatment plans and goals. This will occur within the context of care planning within multidisciplinary teams.
Who can use this service?
Counselling will be available to prisoners who are using a range of drugs including opiates, cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamines, LSD, anxiolytics, hypnotics, alcohol, cannabis and other illicit and licit drugs.
What services are offered?
- Brief interventions,
- Motivational Interviewing and Motivational Enhancement therapy
- 12-step facilitation programme
- Relapse Prevention
- Cognitive–behavioural therapy which would also include problem solving approaches, development of alternative coping strategies, anxiety and stress management, anger management etc.
- Harm Reduction Approaches
Opening Hours & Contact Details
Mon – Fri 9.00am – 5.00pm
Contact Pathways Manager on (01)6456517
This service is open only to prisoners in participating prisons.
Athlone Drug Treatment and Tenancy Sustainment Service
Merchants Quay Ireland provides a new transitional aftercare housing project for homeless persons with drugs or alcohol problems serving the wider Midlands region. This programme is innovative because it offers tenants secure housing through probationary licence agreements linked to participation in an addiction treatment and tenancy Sustainment programme.
Who can use this service?
The programme is geared to address the needs of homeless men and women, who are over the age of eighteen, and who have been involved in treatment for drug and/or alcohol problems.
What service is offered?
This treatment and tenancy Sustainment programme offers individual care plans for each participant which include individual counselling, group therapy, educational groups and recreational activities.
Residents take full responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of their new home and this is seen as integral to the therapeutic process. Appropriate boundary setting, structure, communal support and resident involvement in the operation of the programme are also important elements in the treatment programme.
Contact Details
Phone for more information on (01) 837 7883
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