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Recent History

Redefining Sanity - Mental Health Conference
This national conference is aimed at those who want to play an effective systemic role in developing services better able to meet the needs of young people suffering psychological and emotional distress, and at risk of becoming involved in violent crime. The disturbing and disproportionate number of young black men with mental health issues currently being held in Youth Offender Institutions leaves us in no doubt that this is primarily a social care and not a health issue. Figures show that as many as 80% of  young people coming into contact with the criminal justice system suffer psychological and emotional distress, much of which is either misdiagnosed and/or unaddressed.  Read More

Say No More
RAW Event at St Raphael's Community Centre Read More

RAW Music UK
This is RAW EP- exclusive video screening Read More
Young Women Now
The role of Women and men have changed immensely in the work place.  Will this change be reflected in society positively? Hope so? Not good enough. Young women need to be at the forefront of changing society’s perceptions of them and they need to recognise themselves rightfully as futureleaders of society and the world. Read More

Race Equality
The National Drugs and Race Equality Coalition is a group whose membership is    derived from national, regional and local organisations with a special interest in    promoting race equality within the drug, alcohol and related fields. As a collective,we    seek to use our influence to ensure that UK drugs policy and strategy appropriately    reflects and responds to the needs and aspirations of Black and minority ethnic    (BME) drug users, their families, carers, communities and professionals.  Read More

RAW Truth Celebrations
Celebrating the achievements of Young People from the Pheonix RAW Programme. Read More


Giving Up the Weed
In-volve recently agreed to take part in a Channel 4 documentary that was screened as part of its Addiction week. The programme  broadcast on Channel 4 features the actor and rapper J Rock of Big Bruvvas fame who has been smoking weed for 14 years and is desperate to give up. The one-hour observational documentary called GIVING UP THE WEED charts J Rock's struggle to give up one of the constants in his life and witnesses how he copes. Read More


 In-volve Drug Information Cards
In-volve has produced a set of 18 drugs information cards that answer the questions that young people want to know, using no-nonsense language, in a package that they will want to keep.   Read More


Small Grants for Faith Groups
As a follow on to the Drugs in London seminars for Faith communities, In-volve, with the support of the Greater London Alcohol and Drug Alliance (GLADA) is  offering one-off small grants to faith groups working to address drug and alcohol issues.  Read More


Gangs and Youth Violence
This is an exciting one-day symposium that will explore whther the violence that we have seen in London over the past 13 months, exemplified by the fatal stabbings and shootings of 28 teenagers (mainly of Caribbean and African descent), is in part, linked to the horrifc violence which was perpertrated on communities through the system of slavery and then internalised.  Read More