Board of Trustees 2009
Steve Rossell (Cranstoun Drug Services) Chair
Steve Rossell is Chief Executive of Cranstoun Drug Services, having taken up this post in 1998. Cranstoun is a voluntary sector provider of drug treatment and rehabilitation services within residential, community and criminal justice settings. Prior to his association with Cranstoun, Steve had worked within the voluntary sector and substance misuse field, since 1988.
His previous experience within the substance misuse field includes: the provision of high care residential treatment and rehabilitation; client service delivery in 'street agencies', needle exchanges and community outreach settings; drug work within the criminal justice system, in both the UK and Europe; and, the development and management of community-based drug and alcohol services. Steve has been an active EATA Board member for a number of years and for the last three years has served as the organisation's Treasurer.
Steve Cooke (The Nelson Trust) Vice Chair
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Steve has 18 years experience in drug and alcohol treatment services in both structured day treatment and residential rehabilitation settings.
Steve has designed and developed innovative new drug and alcohol treatment programmes integrating education, training and vocational programmes within the clinical setting. Initiated resettlement and supported housing programmes, including a floating support scheme for people completing treatment programmes. Special professional studies and interests are in the area of “organisational change within drug and alcohol treatment settings” and “developing integrated treatment programmes”.
He was also involved in the development of EATA. He has training experience in the following areas; transactional analysis, cognitive behavioural therapy, counselling training and supervision, business and finance. Specialist qualifications: MSc Counselling training and supervision, Bristol University. Management and business training, Ashridge College.
Brian Dudley BSc (Hons) MAAT (Broadway Lodge) Treasurer
Brian is 42-years-old, married with four children. He was born in Weston-super-Mare and still live locally. After attending the local comprehensive school, he started work at a company manufacturing rocket motors and missiles for the defence industry. During his 13 years there Brian progressed from purchase ledger clerk through to assistant Accountant.
To further his career he took a job with a local Housing Association and stayed for 11 years, progressing to Capital Accountant. Here he was directly responsible for the balance sheet of £400 million. During this time, Brian returned to studying as a mature student in his own time and obtained membership through qualifications to the Association of Accounting Technicians and an ACCA finalist. In 2003 he graduated from Oxford Brookes with a degree in Applied Accounting.
Brian then joined Broadway Lodge in September 2006 as Head of Finance and Company Secretary. In July 2007 he was appointed by the Board of Trustees to Chief Executive. He feels he can bring openness, honesty and a fresh look to the industry and he is very much enjoying the challenges to date. Brian isalso presently involved with the Unity group.
Outside of work, Brian enjoy squash, cricket and golf and has spent nine years working as a youth worker.
Nick Barton (Action on Addiction)
Nick Barton, who has a Masters degree in clinical psychology and trained as a psychotherapist, is Joint Chief Executive of Action on Addiction. He was previously Chief Executive of Clouds, an addiction charity that merged in April 2007 with two others to form Action on Addiction. Under Nick’s leadership, Clouds expanded to provide a range of residential and day treatment and rehabilitation services, as well as specialist assistance to families, including children affected by substance misusing parents.
Many of the services have established exemplary models. Clouds also became a leading trainer of addictions counsellors and, in a partnership with the University of Bath, runs Foundation and Honours Degree courses. Nick was a founding member and former chairman of the European Association for the Treatment of Addiction. He was a member of the Mental Health Committee of the Independent Healthcare Association and was also a Trustee of the Nelson Trust for many years. He has developed substance misuse training to industry, helped set up treatment centres abroad, written articles, spoken at conferences and contributed to books on addiction, including The British System edited by Professors John Strang and Michael Gossop.
Wendy Dawson (The Ley Community)
Wendy began a career in detached drugs work in 1981 specialising in glue, gas and petrol sniffers before moving into working with heroin users, prostitutes and homeless people. She worked for Barnado’s North East in one of the first drug street agencies in the area. Her first senior post was with Newcastle Upon Tyne YMCA when she pioneered a sea change to move away from building-based work to setting up a detached project on a deprived housing estate. She was internally promoted to deputy director and developed several training packages which she delivered across the UK and Ireland on detached methodology, working with drug users, gangs, prostitutes and homeless people. Wendy was invited as a guest speaker to two international conferences: in Seoul, South Korea and in Las Vegas, USA.
In 1997 she moved to Oxford to take up the post of Director of Services with the YMCA with responsibility for 32 community projects across the UK. From here she was appointed the first Chief Executive of Connexions North London, a government initiative and one of 12 pilots across the country. Her first task was to develop the infrastructure, strategic and financial planning and partnership development across four London Boroughs.
Interested in complimentary therapy, Wendy trained to Reiki Master Level and left Connexions to set up her own Reiki business. She also taught part-time at Ruskin College Oxford to develop their first foundation Degree in Youth and Community Work. She returned full-time employment and gained experience in the learning disabilities field with a charity in Oxfordshire and then to a charity in London as National Director to manage an ISSP contract in Brixton, Hackney and Haringey to Managing Director of a national, very sheltered housing scheme and latterly as Director of a children’s information charity in Oxfordshire. Wendy took up the post of Chief Executive of the Ley Community, a drug/alcohol residential therapeutic community (TC) rehab in September 2008.
Gina Dormer (Broadreach House)
Gina has recently taken up the post of Chief Executive of Broadway House, a drug and alcohol charity based in Devon, providing residential and day care services.
Gina has worked within the private, public and also third sectors, and for the past five years has had responsibility for managing and commissioning a range of services in drugs/alcohol and community safety for the North Somerset Crime and Drugs Reduction Partnership. Gina has a wealth of partnership experience and a passion for establishing, developing and improving services to benefit communities.
Her career began with the health service in HIV/AIDS Counselling in the 1980s, and throughout her career she has successfully implemented a range of multi-agency initiatives, including services for sex workers, young people, and most recently she has led the design of an innovative accreditation scheme for drug and alcohol treatment providers. She is committed to involving service users and carers in the design and delivery of services and brings a fresh perspective to her new role with Broadreach House, as well as a valuable insight into commissioning in the drug and alcohol field. She holds post graduate qualifications in management and health promotion.
Steve Hamer OBE FRSA (Compass)
Coming from a background in teaching, Steve first entered the social care field in 1977, working with single, homeless people in London before joining Cranstoun, a residential rehabilitation programme for drug misusers in 1979. After two years at Cranstoun and then spending two years teaching English in Sudan, Steve returned to the drugs field in 1983 to open the Parole Release Scheme, the UK’s first dedicated resettlement service for drug using prisoners. Since joining Compass in 1986 as its first employee, Steve has guided the organisation through its many stages of development, to become one of the UK’s leading drug treatment providers.
Steve has an MA in Social Policy and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In June 2005, Steve was awarded an OBE for services to problem drug users, which he feels reflects the impact Compass has made on improving treatment. Compass offers a wide range of structured and unstructured programmes including community prescribing services, day programmes, specialist services for young people, employment programmes, advisory/counselling services and harm reduction services.
Ben Hughes (Merus Training Ltd)
As the Director and founder of Merus Training Ltd, a successful independent consultancy company created to provide support for the drug treatment sector, Ben has, for the last five years, worked in both health and social care organisations and private sector treatment services to support effective planning and commissioning of services. Prior to its creation, Ben had worked for several years as a DAAT Co-ordinator in the South West of the country.
He has worked in the drug and alcohol field for over 15 years at both clinical and management levels, has a diploma in counseling and has studied Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Brief Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to varying degrees. He is currently studying for his bachelor's degree in Social Sciences.
Having worked, as treatment unit staff, in prisons in the UK and as a strategic manager in the development and commissioning of treatment services and systems, he has wide and varied experience of drug and alcohol treatment from both the provider and commissioner standpoints.
Richard Johnson (ANA Treatment Centres)
Richard Johnson is Executive Director of ANA Treatment Centres in Portsmouth, Hampshire. ANA provides Primary and Secondary residential treatment for those reliant on drugs, alcohol and gambling from its various centres. ANA also provides resettlement packages and a local Family & Carer Support Group.
Richard has worked as an HR and organizational development specialist for the past 16 years. He began as a staff development officer for Durham County Council Social Services Department, working across departments. He then joined the IODA Consulting Group where he worked across the UK and overseas for five years with numerous public, private and third sector organisations. During this time, Richard developed specialist knowledge in senior management development and equality and diversity.
More recently, Richard joined Birmingham Professional DiverCity as Executive Director. BPD is a third sector equality and diversity consulting company, working predominantly in the professional and financial services sector across Birmingham. In 1998, Richard authored the How To Get A Management NVQ series of textbooks, published by Letts Publications.
Richard has a BA (Hons) Degree in Business and Marketing, holds many memberships with professional bodies including FDAP, IOD, CIPD, CMI and ILM. Richard became a Trustee and board member of EATA in 2006. He has been working in the drugs and alcohol field since 1995, initially in the public sector, then on a consulting basis, assisting in policy development and training. Richard joined ANA Treatment Centres in 2005.
Anthony Massouras (Mimosa Healthcare Ltd)
Anthony Massouras is the founder, owner and chief executive of Mimosa Healthcare, an independent provider of specialist care primarily for the elderly that has 32 (1500 beds) care homes in England. He is also the founder of a chain of residential rehab centres for people suffering from alcohol dependence called the Linwood Group which is the country’s fastest growing specialist provider exclusively treating alcohol dependencies. The three centres within this group are unique in that they treat alcohol dependence and do not mix the treatment of alcoholism with other addiction treatments.
Anthony is a member of the Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network and Chairman of the Addiction Recovery Foundation, publishers of “Addiction Today” and conveners of the three-day UK Symposium on Addictive Disorders (UKESAD) held in London every May. He is also an Associate Member of the Medical Council on Alcohol and in December 2008 participated as a speaker at the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Misuse Inquiry into the future of Alcohol Treatment Services.
In March 2009, Mimosa Healthcare will open a new clinic specializing in treating people with addiction to Benzodiazepines and other prescription drugs in the Birmingham area. Additionally a pilot “day care” project in partnership with Nottingham City PCT and A.P.A.S. has just been opened in Nottingham to provide abstinence based day care treatment. The aim is to provide a national, outcome based cost effective service for people addicted to alcohol who are seeking recovery from their addiction and a return to normal living. The day care programme will be the subject of a university-run cost and outcome study and the intention is to use this programme as a platform to expand similar services across England.
Chip Somers (Focus12)
Chip Somers is the Chief Executive of Focus12 and has been working with addiction and alcohol problems for over 22 years. He initially trained and subsequently worked at Clouds House, Wiltshire. He is an accredited drug and alcohol counsellor with FDAP.
Prior to Focus12 Chip co-managed a 23 bedroom residential unit for men recovering from addiction and alcohol problems called Thurston House in London - part of the then Chemical Dependency Centre. He then moved to the Priory Hospital Group as Treatment Director for the Dukes Priory Addiction Treatment Programme in Chelmsford working with people with addiction, alcohol and eating disorders. Whilst there, he completed a senior management course.
He set up Focus12 13 years ago. It is now a recognised provider of abstinence based treatment. In particular Chip Somers is keen to represent the non-Tier 4 providers.
Patrons
- Lord Mancroft
- Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
- Lady Gosling
- Hon. David Bernstein
- Eva Rausing
- Rick Ohrstrom