Suchthilfe Wuppertal gGmbH

The addiction support offers a broad spectrum of low-threshold offers, ranging from harm reduction to stabilization:

• Accommodation offers in various settings: From abstinent rooms to facilities such as Café COSA, Café Intakt, Café Okay and Gleis 1, where drug-using people can find accommodation, showers, laundry, sterile consumption materials and inexpensive meals[1][5][7].
• Advice, referral and support: Addiction-specific, life-world-oriented advice on topics such as health, housing, work, justice and securing livelihoods. Including Streetwork, outpatient assisted living and Housing First models[1][5].
• Specialized care: Psychosocial support (PSB) for opioid-dependent people in substitution treatment, drug therapy outpatient clinic, drug consumption room and aftercare[5][7].
• Integration assistance via facilities such as Integra: Assistance for self-determined living for people with addiction disorders, mental illnesses or dual diagnoses. Services include individual and group offers, social space work and FitKids programs to promote children[3].
• Other services: Work and employment offers, health promotion and survival security[1][5].

These offers are financed and certified by the city of Wuppertal, the Mettmann district, North Rhine-Westphalia and job centers, e.g. as FitKids facilities[3][5][7].

The Suchthilfe Wuppertal works closely across organizations and is part of the Fachverbund Suchthilfe in Deutschland. Similar to the Bundesverband Suchthilfe e. V. (bus.), which coordinates 165 facilities nationwide, it is committed to individualized treatment strands, knowledge transfer and interdisciplinary cooperation[2]. As an employer, it offers a variety of team tasks in a committed environment[1].

Although explicit sustainability goals such as environmental protection are not the focus, the organization promotes long-term social sustainability through preventive approaches: Harm reduction reduces the risk of infection and emergency costs, while Housing First and participation models enable stable lifestyles. The continuous development of needs-based offers strengthens the resilience of vulnerable groups and relieves the social system[1][5]. Initiatives such as FitKids target the next generation in order to anchor addiction prevention in a family-oriented way[3][7].

With over 45 years of expertise, Suchthilfe Wuppertal is an indispensable partner in regional addiction care - practical, people-centered and forward-looking. It creates bridges to independence and integrates those affected into the middle of life.[1][4]

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• 1 - https://sucht-hilfe.org
• 2 - https://suchthilfe.de
• 3 - https://sucht-hilfe.org/integra/start/
• 4 - https://sucht-hilfe.org/organisation/
• 5 - https://sucht-hilfe.org/angebote/
• 6 - https://sucht-hilfe.org/kontakt/
• 7 - https://sucht-hilfe.org/gleis1/start/
• 8 - https://www.dhs.de/service/suchthilfeverzeichnis/
• 9 - https://sucht-hilfe.org/datenschutz/
• 10 - https://sucht-hilfe.org/einrichtungen/