The Drugs & Homeless Initiative (DHI) is set up by Bath Self Help Housing Association. It consists of one member of staff (Rosie Phillips) and one supported dry house.
DHI becomes a standalone charity.
We receive a Department of Health Social Care Award for ‘Promoting Independence’.
Our second service launches, delivering housing support services in Bath & North East Somerset.
We branch out into Wiltshire, taking our housing support service there.
A new prison resettlement service begins in Wiltshire.
We open two new supported dry houses, Barton Buildings in Bath and Acorn House in Wiltshire. Our peer magazine, Off The Wall, is launched and Midge Ure becomes the publication’s patron.
DHI becomes the leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment in South Gloucestershire, and we open a new supported house in Frome.
DHI Chief Executive and Founder, Rosie Phillips, receives a ‘Women Who Make a Difference’ Award.
Our research is presented at the International Harm Reduction Association Conference and the National Conference on Injecting Drug Use.
We hold our first ever ‘Reach Out’ event for the families and carers of people using drugs and alcohol. New housing related support services launch in Swindon and South Gloucestershire, and we start a scheme in Swindon to support sex workers.
DHI celebrates its 10th birthday and wins the Red Cross Excellence Award. We start our first social prescribing service in South Gloucestershire.
As DHI’s remit has expanded to work with a wider range of vulnerable and excluded groups, it is felt that a name change is necessary. The Drugs and Homeless Initiative becomes Developing Health & Independence.
The Beehive treatment centre in Bath, the Midsomer Norton Recovery Hub and Burlington House, a supported dry house and community detox facility in Bath, all open in one year.
Project 28, our drug and alcohol service for young people in B&NES, joins the DHI family. We launch our social enterprise lettings agency, Home Turf Lettings.
DHI joins the ROADS partnership in Bristol with an exciting programme for peers and the families and carers of people with substance misuse problems.
We begin delivering Motiv8, a young people’s drug and alcohol service in Wiltshire.
Our community wellbeing service in B&NES, MyScript, launches and works with over 200 people in its first six months.
Home Turf Lettings is selected by Bristol City Council to provide accommodation for the Syrian Refugees Resettlement Scheme.
We start running the full South Gloucestershire drug and alcohol service for the first time, and we embed peers into the heart of the service.
Our Community Recovery service opens in Bristol and we join up with a private developer on the exciting East Street Mews project.
We celebrate our 20th birthday with The Vision Project.
