STaR provides enhanced support and recovery interventions to people, with substance misuse challenges, experiencing rough sleeping or living in supported accommodation in Exeter. The service was set up to work with people that have experienced difficulties accessing traditional models of treatment and care and STaR provides a comprehensive range of interventions including psychosocial support, harm reduction, and access to specialist clinicians.

The STaR alliance is a partnership that brings together substance misuse, specialist primary care, peer-support, housing, and psychological expertise to address the challenges faced by adults experiencing multiple disadvantage. Using a trauma-informed and flexible approach, with a segmented cohort, STaR works to move people off the streets and into treatment, helping them stabilise, recover, and gain independence.