A new millennium, a new direction. The years 2000-2010 are years of expansion, collaboration, and broadening. De Regenboog becomes De Regenboog Groep in 2008. The number of walk-in centres grows and activation projects spring up like mushrooms.
Walk-in centres work together
When the municipality of Amsterdam started imposing stricter requirements for funding on the city's walk-in centres, De Kloof, Makom, and Oud West united in 2002 to form the Stichting Samenwerkende Inloouizen Amsterdam (SIA). In 2005 a merger occurred between SIA and the De Regenboog foundation, This followed a period of administrative turbulence that had arisen within De Regenboog in 2003. Under the guidance of a mediator, the situation calmed down. The merger creates an intensive cooperation between the SIA walk-in centres with the Regenboog locations Tabe Rienkshuis and Blaka Watra. There are thus five drop-in locations, broadening the focus on hard drug users to other groups of addicts and the homeless.
Further expansion of drop-in
In 2006, De Regenboog sets up walk-in centre De Eik in Slotervaart. In 2007, the foundation takes over the operation of walk-in centres Ondro Bong and AMOC. When with effect from 2008 De Spreekbuis, a walk-in centre, is also taken over, De Regenboog has a total of ten walk-in centres, three of which have user space (AMOC, Blaka Watra, Princehof), plus a separate user space in Westerpark. The walk-in centres provide basic facilities such as coffee and tea, food, clean clothes, a hot shower and basic medical care. And they act as stepping stones to appropriate assistance.