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Chair: day two
Glenda Daniels, Oxfordshire User Team (OUT)

Biography
Glenda has worked in the drugs field since stopping using Class A drugs in 2001, co-founding, then Managing the “Model of Good Practise User Group”, Oxfordshire User Team. Glenda has worked across the UK setting up ‘user groups’ and ‘user involvement mechanisms’ in many Drug and Alcohol Action Team (D(A)AT) areas on behalf of the NTA and local DA(A)Ts, ensuring that user involvement becomes an integral part of each local drug treatment system as required by many Governing bodies/governing Acts such as the health and Social care act 2001, PCT and DOH guidance.

Glenda has worked hard to grow and shape OUT into a successful Charity working across the drug treatment and criminal justice system from service delivery through to commissioning, ensuring that users rights are upheld and that all local users have access to all treatment modalities available to them in a timely manner and in a non punitive way. Peer Education, Advocacy, Overdose Prevention and Hepatitis C being specialist subjects, seeing OUT providing brief harm reduction interventions to current drug users, setting up peer led needle exchange services and peer support groups.

Glenda has fought and won the battle against addiction personally and has grown from being a class A drug user through to the Manager of a user friendly service that is well know across the UK and has shaped the way user involvement is seen and carried out locally and nationally today.