Phil Harris has worked with complex needs for over 28 years as a practitioner, trainer and manager. He has extensive experience across the field frontline substance misuse, homelessness, and mental health services. He has managed teams including family, young people, dual diagnosis & personality disorders and substance misuse. And designed a wide range of services from large scale multi-county treatment systems to specialist programmes for groups with complex needs.
Phil is a visiting lecturer at Bristol University Social Policy Unit, advisor to the US BICEP programme and World Health Organisation in the Balkans region. He has written over 20 scholarly articles on effective practice and has published five books on substance misuse, treatment effectiveness, family and young people with complex needs.