Community Links

Community Links exists to provide excellent, client focused mental health services
which value diversity, instil hope and improve quality of life through recovery.

Community Links is a non-profit provider of health and social care services in Yorkshire and the Humber, in the fields of mental health, including personality disorder, alcohol misuse, drug misuse.

Community Links Alcohol Support Service (CLASS)
01484 500100

class@commlinks.co.uk

CLASS is open to individuals who are aged 16 + who live within the Kirklees area. We provide support to people who are struggling to manage their alcohol use and who are finding it difficult to cope in other areas of everyday life. People referred to CLASS may have become isolated from friends and family or lost employment and be in poor health due to their drinking.

Support offered is for a maximum of two years. Support may be shorter than this depending on the individual’s needs.

The CLASS service does not require that clients stop drinking if they do not wish to. Clients are expected to be motivated to improve their circumstances and to use the help provided to increase their independence.

We accept referrals from any source, including self; other professionals; carer; family or friend. Referrals can be made by completing a CLASS referral form which can be returned to us by email, fax or posted to our address. Alternatively, if you prefer to speak with someone, we also accept telephone referrals.

Address:

Community Links Alcohol Support Service,
Unit 38,
Batley Business Park,
Technology Drive,
Batley,
WF17 6ER

01484 500100

01924 422012

class@commlinks.co.uk

Opening Times:

M: – 9am – 5pm
T: – 9am – 5pm
W: – 9am – 5pm
T: – 9am – 5pm
F: – 9am – 4:30pm
S: – Closed
S: – Closed

Community Links Assertive Engagement Team
We provide support to people who are misusing alcohol and who wish to make changes to their drinking. Our staff work in partnership with On TRAK to deliver structured support and interventions to people who are unable to come into the On TRAK service because of physical illness, disability or poor mental health. We visit people in their own homes.

Our team will deliver the On TRAK interventions to people in their home. The length of this support may be between 3 – 6 months. This depends on the help needed (for example reduction, detoxification, harm minimisation advice) and the complexity of the individual’s needs (for example someone may find shorter appointments easier to cope with due to anxiety or illness).

The emphasis of the service is to help people to make changes to their drinking. It is therefore important that at the point of referral, clients are ready and motivated to follow the goals agreed with their worker and to take the steps to make changes.

Referrals will be accepted from any source, including self; other professionals; carer; family or friend. For more information, or to make a referral, please contact On TRAK (details opposite).

On-TRAK Dewsbury:

On-TRAK Dewsbury,
Assertive Engagement Team,
15 Union Street,
Dewsbury,
WF13 1BG

01924 486170

01924 486171

On-TRAK Huddersfield:

On-TRAK Huddersfield,
Assertive Engagement Team,
2 St Peter’s Street,
Huddersfield,
HD1 1RA

01484 437907

01484 432999

Opening Times:

Opening times for Community Links Assertive Engagement Team:

M: – 9am – 5pm
T: – 9am – 5pm
W: – 9am – 5pm
T: – 9am – 5pm
F: – 9am – 4:30pm
S: – Closed
S: – Closed

Community Links Dual Diagnosis Service
01924 448977

dualdiagnosis@commlinks.co.uk

We provide intensive, short term support to clients with coexisting mental health and substance misuse issues in the Kirklees area. We provide support to clients who may have previously had difficulty in accessing and engaging with services to make positive changes in their lives.

Support is offered for between 12-20 weeks around a wide range of issues including mental health, substance misuse, housing, finances and relationships.
The service is open to individuals with a dual diagnosis, aged 16 and over and living in the Kirklees area.

Referrals can be made by completing and returning the Dual Diagnosis referral form which can be emailed, faxed or posted (details opposite).

Download Referral Form

Address:

Community Links Alcohol Support Service,
Unit 38,
Batley Business Park,
Technology Drive,
Batley,
WF17 6ER

01924 448977

01924 422012

dualdiagnosis@commlinks.co.uk

Opening Times:

M: – 9am – 5pm
T: – 9am – 5pm
W: – 9am – 5pm
T: – 9am – 5pm
F: – 9am – 4:30pm
S: – Closed
S: – Closed

Community Links CHANGES
01924 448975

changes@commlinks.co.uk

Changes is a women’s service based in Batley, working across Kirklees. We have specific focus on women with multiple complex needs and chaotic lifestyles. We offer one to one assertive support and a variety of group work options.

The CHANGES Service provides a specialist holistic assessment to women with complex needs on the personality disorder continuum. We work with women who may have been excluded from other services (due to alcohol/drug use, violence/aggression, lack of engagement) and provide a package of resettlement support into mainstream services to women with complex needs. We aim to support women to understand their mental health difficulties and how these impact on their lives.

You can make a referral by downloading the form below and fax, email or post it to the details opposite:

(if you have any problem downloading the form please ring or email us)

Download Referral Form

Address:

Community Links CHANGES
Annexe 1, Unit 38,
Batley Business Park,
Technology Drive,
Batley,
WF17 6ER

01924 448975

01924 422012

changes@commlinks.co.uk

Opening Times:

M: – 9am – 5pm
T: – 9am – 5pm
W: – 9am – 5pm
T: – 9am – 5pm
F: – 9am – 4:30pm
S: – Closed
S: – Closed

Community Links WY-FI
01924 448979

The West Yorkshire Fulfilling Lives: Supporting People with Multiple Needs Programme, known as West Yorkshire – Finding Independence (WY-FI) provide support to the people with the most entrenched multiple and complex needs in Kirklees to access the services and interventions they need. Our criteria are that clients are experiencing three of the four HARM needs (Homelessness, Addiction, Re-offending and Mental Health). In addition they need to NOT currently be engaging in any other support.

Navigators provide intensive and assertive support to individuals to overcome barriers to accessing and engaging with services in order to broker a support package which is bespoke and realistic for that individual.

If you would like to discuss a notification for someone you think would meet the criteria for WY-FI please call to speak to the Navigator team on 01924 448979

Community Links Engagement and Recovery (CLEAR)
The clear service provides support for people in Kirklees with a range of mental health needs, including Dementia to reach their goals and aspirations. We support people to identify how they can progress on their recovery journey and provide a range of social, leisure and skills based activities which support self-help, wellbeing and recovery.

Clear has bases in both Huddersfield and Dewsbury but also provides many community based activities.

The clear service will operate 7 days a week, including some evenings. The service aims to cater for diverse cultural needs.
Clear is an ‘ageless’ (18+) and Dementia-friendly service for people experiencing mental ill-health who live in community settings. The service is for people who live in Kirklees. The service is primarily for people who are registered on the Care Programme Approach (CPA) but also offers some preventative access.

Referrals can be made by the person wishing to access the service (self-referral) or by someone else on behalf of that person.
The referral form can downloaded below and returned by post or email to either the Dewsbury or Huddersfield team on the contact details opposite.

If you are unable to complete and return the form, call us and we will complete the form with you over the phone.

Download Referral Form