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 123 1186 (evenings and weekends).
Canterbury
- Address: 1 Oaten Hill Place, Canterbury CT1 3HJ
- Website: visit the Forward Trust Canterbury website
- Email: canterbury@forwardtrust.org.uk or secure email theforwardtrust.canterbury@nhs.net
- Call: 01227 201 778 or 0300 123 1186 (evenings and weekends).
Dover and South Kent Coast
- Address: Maybrook House, Queens Gardens, Dover, CT17 9AH
- Website: visit the Forward Trust Dover and South Kent Coast website
- Email: dover@forwardtrust.org.uk
- Call: 01304 248 290.
Sittingbourne and Swale
- Address: 6-8 Park Road, Sittingbourne, ME10 1DR
- Website: visit the Forward Trust Sittingbourne and Swale website
- Email: swale@forwardtrust.org.uk or secure email theforwardtrust.sittingbourne@nhs.net
- Call: 01795 411 780 or 0300 123 1186 (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 123 1186 (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.
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